Over on YouTube [Nic Barker] gives us: UTF-8, Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when you deal with ...

PCWorld explains how to insert special characters using Alt key codes and Microsoft Word’s Symbols library for enhanced document creation. Alt codes allow typing hundreds of symbols like copyright ...

Google's flagship AI model, Gemini, is under fire after cybersecurity researchers discovered a serious flaw known as an "ASCII smuggling" exploit. What's worse, the tech giant has stated it won't fix ...

Google has decided not to fix a new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini that could be used to trick the AI assistant into providing users with fake information, alter the model’s behavior, and silently ...

Enigmatriz is a digital artist who combines the glyphs, code, characters and symbols of the average keyboard into a plethora of imagery in these imaginative collages. The Argentina-based digital ...

What steps can reproduce the bug? At the input section, type any non-ASCII or Unicode character. Examples: Such as, but is not limited to, Turkish characters (İ, ı, ş, ü, ğ, ö, ç), Chinese characters ...

If you hold a modern device that supports the latest emojis (based on Unicode 16.0), you can now express your emotions through 3,790 different emojis. Every year, the latest Unicode iteration brings a ...

What if there was a way to sneak malicious instructions into Claude, Copilot, or other top-name AI chatbots and get confidential data out of them by using characters large language models can ...

New phishing campaigns attempt to evade detection by constructing rogue QR codes with special ASCII characters and load phishing pages locally using the local blob URL feature in browsers. Attackers ...

A new generation of QR code phishing (quishing) attacks have been uncovered by threat analyists at Barracuda. Research by the email protection firm highlighted new techniques that have been designed ...

I have long suggested that given enough time, AI input prompts (like the ones used by ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot) would be exploited in ways that we have not yet imagined. I have experimented with ...

Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech and strategic finance in top universities. She has been an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor for more than ...