(Black PR Wire) On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, the Columbia University Commencement ceremony of the 269th academic year will take place on the Morningside Campus. On the same day, violet banners will fly high over Yankee Stadium as New York University conven…
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U.S.-Made Technology Is Flowing to Russian Airlines, Despite Sanctions
Russian customs data shows that millions of dollars of aircraft parts made by Boeing, Airbus and others were sent to Russia last year.
E.U. Approves Microsoft’s $69 Billion Deal for Activision
The green light follows objections to the blockbuster deal by American and British regulators on the grounds that it would undercut competition.
Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware
Enlarge Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users’ zip files, even when they’re protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday. Compressing file contents into archived zip files has long been a tactic threat actors use to conceal malware spreading through email or downloads. Eventually, some threat actors...
As AI-generated fakes proliferate, Google plans to fight back
Enlarge / Photorealistic AI-generated images like this one may distort our sense of history. Google wants to fix that. (credit: Midjourney) On Wednesday at Google I/O 2023, Google announced three new features designed to help people spot AI-generated fake images in search results, reports Bloomberg. The features will identify the known origins of an image,...
Ex-ByteDance Executive Accuses TikTok Parent Company of ‘Lawlessness’
The former executive sued ByteDance, which owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and accused the company of lifting content from rivals and “supreme access” by the Chinese Communist Party.
Linda Yaccarino Is Twitter’s New CEO, Elon Musk Confirms
Mr. Musk said Ms. Yaccarino would focus on business operations and he would work on product design and technology at the social media platform.
Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy—here’s why
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) My recent feature on passkeys attracted significant interest, and a number of the 1,100-plus comments raised questions about how the passkey system actually works and if it can be trusted. In response, I’ve put together this list of frequently asked questions to dispel a few myths and shed...
Anthropic’s Claude AI can now digest an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion) On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announced it has given its ChatGPT-like Claude AI language model the ability to analyze an entire book’s worth of material in under a minute. This new ability comes from expanding Claude’s context window...
‘De-Americanize’: How China Is Remaking Its Chip Business
Seven months after Washington unveiled tough curbs, Chinese companies are doubling down on homegrown supply chains and drawing billions in cash from Beijing and investors.