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Submission + - Tesla Hack Earns $200,000 at Pwn2Own 2024 (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:10AM

wiredmikey writes: A team from cybersecurity firm Synacktiv earned $200,000 at Pwn2Own for an integer overflow exploit targeting Tesla's electronic control unit (ECU) with CAN bus control. In addition to the money, the researchers won a new Tesla Model 3.

Participants have earned more than $700,000 on the first day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition, successfully demonstrating exploits against a Tesla car, Linux and Windows operating systems, and various pieces of widely used software.

Comment Re:Drive up the cost (Score 1) 19

by Ferocitus on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @03:41PM (#64331583) Attached to: NVIDIA Partners With Ubisoft To Further Develop Its AI-driven NPCs

Companies are already complaining AAA games are too expensive, and AI isnt free. For all the realism they want, this is going to be unsustainable for the industry.

Thanks, Mystic Meg.

Comment Co-pilot is so good (Score 1) 8

by Ferocitus on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @12:35PM (#64328073) Attached to: Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder Suleyman To Run Consumer AI, Hires Most of Inflection AI Startup Staff

it could patch fucked up windows on a Boeing.

Comment Failure mode detected (Score 2) 18

by Ferocitus on Monday March 18, 2024 @12:58PM (#64325307) Attached to: Google Researchers Unveil 'VLOGGER', an AI That Can Bring Still Photos To Life

"The technology, called VLOGGER, relies on advanced machine learning models to synthesize startlingly realistic footage..."
It looks unrealistic when used on botoxed faces.

Submission + - Boeing whistleblower was murdered (nypost.com) 1

Submitted by sinij on Friday March 15, 2024 @12:52PM

sinij writes: Boeing whistleblower John Barnett made a grim prediction that he could potentially end up dead after raising safety concerns about the jetliner giant, allegedly telling a family friend: "If anything happens, it's not suicide."

Boeing should be investigated and people responsible should be prosecuted.

Comment How I do not get the job I was told to apply for? (Score 1) 27

by Ferocitus on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @04:43PM (#64310459) Attached to: Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them

It replied: "Ask them, When do I start handling cash?"
Worked like a charm, AI bro.

Comment Did US cybersecurity eventually work out (Score 1) 4

by Ferocitus on Sunday March 10, 2024 @05:44AM (#64303839) Attached to: US Cybersecurity Agency Forced to Take Two Systems Offline Last Month After Ivanti Compromise

that the name "Ivanti" might be a clue to why things went pear-shaped?

Comment If they had cancelled the debt (Score 0) 162

by Ferocitus on Saturday March 09, 2024 @02:38PM (#64302719) Attached to: How $138B in US Student Loans Were Cancelled - Roughly One-Third of Planned Amount

in Bitcoin they would be making a fortune.

Comment Who was ever killed by a node? (Score 1) 32

by Ferocitus on Saturday March 09, 2024 @03:06AM (#64301889) Attached to: Palantir Wins US Army Contract For Battlefield AI

We'll never know because it was done at a CIA black site in Lithuania.

Comment But is it better (Score 1) 26

by Ferocitus on Friday March 08, 2024 @10:15AM (#64299771) Attached to: Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 With Improvements To Persona, EyeSight, Virtual Keyboard and More

than a Huawei?

Comment Duh (Score 1) 90

by Ferocitus on Friday March 08, 2024 @10:14AM (#64299765) Attached to: 10 Years On, Is the World Any Closer To Finding MH370?

It's not not closer.

Comment Re:Ok, but... (Score 1) 177

by Ferocitus on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:55AM (#64291272) Attached to: Carmakers Must Bring Back Physical Buttons, Says Europe

The indicator buttons alone would put me off buying an M3 here in the UK. I'm not going round a roundabout using that!!

What if it came with "Clippy for Cars" pre-installed?

Comment Re:Dyslexia (Score 0) 50

by Ferocitus on Monday March 04, 2024 @07:29PM (#64289888) Attached to: Discord Leaker Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty, Seeks Light 11-Year Sentence

I read that as an 11 Light Year sentence.

I read that sentence as an 11 Year Light.

Comment Re:Bias Analysis and sensitive leak mining (Score 2) 46

by Ferocitus on Monday March 04, 2024 @03:14AM (#64287552) Attached to: Researchers Create AI Worms That Can Spread From One System to Another

Forget AI recursive scripts. Revealing 'Social/Woke' filtering and accurately eroding it at the edges is possible.

Easy peasy, they just have to filter out words and phrases like Negger, Nogger, Nugger, Sam Bow...

Comment And, yea verily, Methusaleh said (Score 1) 68

by Ferocitus on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:46AM (#64278626) Attached to: US Will Investigate National Security Risks Posed By Chinese-made 'Smart Cars'

"I'm not going to let that happen on my watch."
Smart. And may you live for another 999 years before your Fitbit reports your death to Beijing.

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