Monthly Archives: September 2022

New attack can unlock and start a Tesla Model Y in seconds, say researchers

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla prides itself on its cybersecurity protections, particularly the elaborate challenge system that protects its cars from conventional methods for attacking the remote unlock system. But now, one researcher has discovered a sophisticated relay attack that would allow someone with physical access to a Tesla Model Y to…

Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely

Enlarge / An assortment of robot portraits generated by Stable Diffusion as found on the Lexica search engine. (credit: Lexica) Confronted with an overwhelming amount of artificial-intelligence-generated artwork flooding in, some online art communities have taken dramatic steps to ban or curb its presence on their sites, including Newgrounds, Inkblot Art, and Fur Affinity, according…