Neowin News Feed for: Dangerous

OpenAI's smartest ChatGPT model "misbehaves," refuses shut down in controlled testing

Sayan Sen — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:52:01 +0000

OpenAI's "smartest" o3 model has been "misbehaving" and is refusing to shut down even when explicitly told to. Read more...

Nvidia tested RTX 5090 with four 16-pin connectors but this specific bug may still melt it

Sayan Sen — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:28:01 +0000

Nvidia's RTX 5090s are apparently melting or burning (again) and they may be affected by one specific issue. Read more...

Rogue AI goes Admin-mode, installs updates that the PC could never reboot from

Sayan Sen — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 10:44:01 +0000

A recent incident highlights the importance of using AI carefully and responsibly. The AI went Admin-mode and installed a bunch of updates that it could never reboot from. Read more...

Apple warns about having the iPhone 12 close to pacemakers

Usama Jawad — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:54:01 +0000

Apple has published a public advisory about iPhone 12 and MagSafe accessories, confirming that they emit relatively stronger electromagnetic fields which may interfere with critical medical devices. Read more...

Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:51:09 +0000

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile... Read more...

Google: Scientology is a Dangerous Cult

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:26:32 +0000

Just over a year ago, Google made it harder to achieve Googlebombing, the act of hundreds of Internet users linking up specific words with certain web sites in order to produce a desired (and usually... Read more...

Dangerous Java Flaw Threatens Numerous Platforms

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:39:09 +0000

Google's Security team has discovered vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment that threatens the security of all platforms, browsers and even mobile devices. "This is as bad as it gets," said Chris Gatford, a... Read more...

McAfee: Search results can be dangerous

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:55:29 +0000

McAfee is reporting that some web search companies are better at filtering out bad links than others: Google has improved over the past year, AOL has the safest search results on the Web right now... Read more...

Malicious videos open dangerous attack vector

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:39:41 +0000

Administrators should consider restricting access to sites such as YouTube and MySpace because they have the potential to deliver malware that has been embedded inside video files. Over the past year, a number of serious... Read more...

How Dangerous Is Using Kazaa?

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:05:28 +0000

Kazaa's on going trial in Australia is revealing many hard facts that might shock the file sharing generation. Kazaa are currently being prosecuted for copyright violations by a variety of media companies. Prof. Leon... Read more...

Hidden & Dangerous 2: Sabre Squadron movie

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:32:42 +0000

Take-Two Interactive sends along the third and final movie trailer for Hidden & Dangerous 2: Sabre Squadron, again showing the squad-based tactical shooter expansion pack by Illusion Softworks in motion. The movie comes in the... Read more...

Hidden & Dangerous 2 Expansion Coming

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:43:06 +0000

Hidden & Dangerous 2 is getting an expansion. This expansion brings in nine new missions (single-player) and the ability to play all of these missions cooperatively over the web. Gathering will release... Read more...

Hidden and Dangerous 2 Expansion - New Details

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:47:41 +0000

Add-on named, some content confirmed, but oddly no mention of co-op multiplayer New details have emerged on Illusion Softworks' expansion for its WWII squad-based shooter Hidden & Dangerous 2, reportedly thanks to a sly fact... Read more...

Hidden & Dangerous 2 demo

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:35:58 +0000

Hidden & Dangerous 2 is a first and third person tactical shooter that builds upon the tremendous success of Hidden & Dangerous. You lead a small squad of Allied soldiers deep behind enemy lines, to... Read more...

'Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe' - FULL Game Available

Marcel Klum — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:41:02 +0000

Gathering is releasing the original game for everybody to download so that you can practice for its follow up Hidden & Dangerous 2. This download contains the original Hidden & Dangerous, the Devil's Bridge expansion... Read more...