Author: Admin

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...

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...

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...

A.I. screenwriting, a point of contention in the Writers Guild strike, may not yet be ready for prime time. But streaming algorithms and derivative programming have prepared the way for it.

The Times would like to hear from current and former employees, avid TikTok users, educators and parents.

As China and the United States jockey for tech primacy, wireless carriers in dozens of states are tearing out Chinese equipment. That has turned into a costly, difficult process.

At the company’s annual conference, Google demonstrated dozens of products and features that work with artificial intelligence, along with new phones.

Google’s latest entry-level phone, which costs $500, is just as good as devices nearly double its price.

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) A ransomware intrusion on hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, is stoking concerns of devastating supply chain attacks that could inject malicious updates that have been signed with company signing keys that are trusted by a huge base of end-user devices, a researcher said. “​​It’s kind of like a...

Enlarge (credit: Google) At Wednesday’s Google I/O conference, Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, Bard, in over 180 countries with no waitlist. It also announced updates such as support for Japanese and Korean, visual responses to queries, integration with Google services, and add-ons that will extend Bard’s capabilities. Similar to how OpenAI...