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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...

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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...

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Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix a Secure Boot bypass bug used by the BlackLotus bootkit we reported on in March. The original vulnerability, CVE-2022-21894, was patched in January, but the new patch for CVE-2023-24932 addresses another actively exploited workaround for systems running Windows 10...

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OpenAI peeks into the “black box” of neural networks with new research

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of robots looking inside an artificial brain. (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, OpenAI published a new research paper detailing a technique that uses its GPT-4 language model to write explanations for the behavior of neurons in its older GPT-2 model, albeit imperfectly. It’s a step forward for “interpretability,” which is...

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The AI race heats up: Google announces PaLM 2, its answer to GPT-4

Enlarge (credit: Google) On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2, a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4. At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already uses PaLM 2 to power 25 products, including its Bard conversational AI assistant. As a family of large language models (LLMs), PaLM...