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A California pet food maker has recalled its raw chicken products after they were linked to bird flu infections in two cats and suspected in a third in New York City. The recall is the latest in recent months tied to products potentially contaminated with the virus that has sickened and killed cats in several states, after racing through poultry and dairy cattle in the U.S. and causing illnesses in at least 70 people. Savage Pet, of El Cajon, California, this week recalled one lot of large and small chicken boxes because they may be contaminated with Type A H5N1…

Stability AI has released a new AI model, Stable Virtual Camera, that the company claims can transform 2D images into “immersive” videos with realistic depth and perspective. Virtual cameras are tools often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in real time. With Stable Virtual Camera, Stability sought to add generative AI to the mix to deliver greater control and customizability, the company said in a blog post. Stable Virtual Camera generates “novel views” of a scene from one or more images (up to 32 total) at camera angles that a user specifies. The model…

A critical vulnerability affecting baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware made by AMI could expose many devices to remote attacks, according to firmware and hardware security company Eclypsium. Eclypsium has been analyzing AMI BMC security for years. In the summer of 2023, the company disclosed two serious flaws, warning that they could expose millions of devices that use AMI’s MegaRAC BMC to takeover and physical damage.  The company’s researchers on Tuesday reported discovering a new flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-54085. The new vulnerability is similar to CVE-2023-34329, one of the 2023 vulnerabilities, which allows authentication bypass, but it’s unclear if CVE-2024-54085 is…

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, returns this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments, and we’ve made it easy for you to follow along. Many of the biggest presentations, talks, and panels will be livestreamed as well. The conference started Monday, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is scheduled to deliver a keynote from the SAP Center on Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT, which you’ll be able to stream and watch online at Nvidia.com without having to register,…

Google on Tuesday announced the release of an updated iteration of OSV-Scanner, its free vulnerability scanner for open source developers. OSV-Scanner was introduced in 2022 as a front-end for the open source vulnerability database launched in 2021, to help developers receive detailed bug reports and improve the security of the open source ecosystem. The new iteration of the scanner builds on the capabilities introduced earlier this year with the release of OSV-SCALIBR (Software Composition Analysis LIBRary), an extensible file system scanner that extracts information on software inventory. OSV-Scanner V2.0.0 integrates OSV-SCALIBR features and becomes the official command-line code and container…

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Google seems to agree. On Tuesday, the company added a feature to its AI-powered Gemini chatbot that the company is calling Canvas. Similar in concept to OpenAI’s identically named Canvas tool for ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Artifacts, Canvas provides Gemini users with an interactive space where they can create, refine, and share writing and coding projects. “Canvas is designed for seamless collaboration with Gemini,” Gemini product director Dave Citron wrote in a blog post shared with TechCrunch. “With these new features, Gemini is becoming an even more effective collaborator, helping you…

Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But it is the first publicly announced one, Laude co-founder and general partner Pete Sonsini told TechCrunch. Sonsini is well-known for his years at NEA, where he led early investments in Databricks, Anyscale, and Perplexity. As for Salazar, he’s a repeat founder. He landed at Okta after…

AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub’s latest poll saying that they’ve adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. Sensing an opportunity, VCs are rushing to back startups developing AI-powered assistive programming tools. One of these startups, Graphite, on Tuesday announced that it raised $52 million in a Series B round led by Accel, with participation from Anthropic’s Anthology Fund with Menlo Ventures, Shopify Ventures, Figma Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and The General Partnership. Tomas…

In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads. That’s up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024 — a 153% increase over a roughly-three-month period. Llama, which powers Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, across the tech giant’s various platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is a part of Meta’s yearslong bid to foster a wide-ranging AI product ecosystem. The company makes the models, as well as the tools required to fine-tune and customize them, available for free under a proprietary license. Some…

At least 11 state-sponsored threat groups have been abusing Windows shortcut files for espionage and data theft, according to an analysis by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). Shortcut files, also referred to as LNK or .lnk files, use the Shell Link binary file format to store information for accessing other data objects. These LNK files can point to files, folders or applications.  However, for years threat actors have been using specially crafted LNK files that embed command-line arguments for Cmd or PowerShell that are designed to download and execute malware. ZDI has identified nearly 1,000 malicious LNK files set…