Adobe teases generative AI video tools

Enlarge / A demo of Firefly AI generation in Adobe Premiere. (credit: Adobe) On Monday, Adobe…

An in-depth look at how police agencies across Europe infiltrated encrypted phone networks like EncroChat and Sky ECC that were popular with organized criminals (Ed Caesar/New Yorker)

Ed Caesar / New Yorker: An in-depth look at how police agencies across Europe infiltrated encrypted…

Meet PassGAN, the supposedly “terrifying” AI password cracker that’s mostly hype

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) By now, you’ve probably heard about a new AI-based…

Contract docs reveal the Georgia National Guard plans to use location-based phone surveillance to target ads using geofences around 67 local public high schools (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)

Sam Biddle / The Intercept: Contract docs reveal the Georgia National Guard plans to use location-based…

Generative AI comes to Amazon Web Services

Enlarge / An AI generated image of a “colorful data center.” (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, Amazon…

Amid an AI stocks frenzy, enterprise AI company CXApp’s stock closed at $13.85 on April 14, up from a $1.33 closing on April 11, taking its market cap to ~$164M (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Amid an AI stocks frenzy, enterprise AI company CXApp’s stock closed at…

Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “self-improving robot.” (credit: Midjourney) Since the launch of OpenAI’s…

Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and clip-on cooling fan, available for €999 for preorder in Europe (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB…

“A really big deal”—Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model

Enlarge (credit: Databricks) On Wednesday, Databricks released Dolly 2.0, reportedly the first open source, instruction-following large…

Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work;…