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No UK AI legislation until timing is right, says Donelan

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Digital secretary Michelle Donelan says UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence (AI) until the timing is right, and is focused in the meantime on improving the technology’s safety and building regulatory capacity in support of its proposed “pro-innovation” framework. On 13 December, Donelan appeared before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to answer…

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The AMD Advancing AI & Instinct MI300 Launch Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/18:00 UTC)

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This morning is an important one for AMD – perhaps the most important of the year. After almost a year and a half of build-up, and even longer for actual development, AMD is launching their next generation GPU/APU/AI accelerator family, the Instinct MI300 series. Based on AMD’s new CDNA 3 architecture, and combining it with…

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AMD Begins Polaris and Vega GPU Retirement Process, Reduces Ongoing Driver Support

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As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver,…

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Kaspersky opens up over spyware campaign targeting its staffers

5 minutes of reading / API, Apple, Google, iPad, iPhone, open source, Tech / By

Kaspersky has shared more details of a novel iOS spyware that it discovered earlier this year when its own devices came under attack in a campaign dubbed Operation Triangulation. Dozens of Kaspersky employees are understood to have been affected by the advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign, which employed a “sophisticated method” of distributing zero-click exploits…

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Research team tricks AI chatbots into writing usable malicious code

4 minutes of reading / AI, Baidu, chatbot, ChatGPT, natural language processing, open source, Tech / By

Researchers at the University of Sheffield said they have successfully fooled a number of natural language processing (NLP) generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools – including ChatGPT – into producing effective code that can be used to launch real-world cyber attacks. The potential for tools like ChatGPT to be exploited and tricked into writing malicious code…

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Ransomware dwell times now measured in hours, says Secureworks

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The cyber security industry has done so well at detecting suspicious activity that may be a precursor to a ransomware attack, that when cyber criminals succeed in breaking into a victim’s network, they are deploying and executing their lockers quicker than ever before, according to data contained in Secureworks’ annual State of the Threat report.…

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