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A new program at Bowie State connects computing students directly with companies, bypassing an often harsh Silicon Valley vetting process.

Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges.

Enlarge / Domain seizure message at genesis.market. An international law enforcement operation shut down a “notorious hacker marketplace” that sold access to infected devices and stolen account credentials, the US Department of Justice and Europol announced today. The operation targeting Genesis Market involved 17 countries, seized the platform’s infrastructure, and resulted in “119 arrests, 208...

Enlarge / An example of SAM selecting the outline of a corgi in a photo. (credit: Meta) On Wednesday, Meta announced an AI model called the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that can identify individual objects in images and videos, even those not encountered during training, reports Reuters. According to a blog post from Meta, SAM...

Enlarge On Tuesday, President Joe Biden delivered brief remarks on artificial intelligence risks at the opening of a meeting with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the White House. The remarks come in the context of increasing worry about generative AI and its potential threats to society and controversial calls for...

Enlarge (credit: Bruno Vincent / Getty Images) The UK’s communications watchdog has called for a probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of the country’s cloud computing market in the latest challenge to the tech giants from global regulators. Ofcom said on Wednesday it was “particularly concerned” by the practices of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft,...

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of two robots fighting in an arena. (credit: Benj Edwards / Midjourney) In today’s world of generative AI chatbots, we’ve witnessed the sudden rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, introduced in November, followed by Bing Chat in February and Google’s Bard in March. We decided to put these chatbots through their paces...

Beijing’s security review of Micron Technology, which has deep roots in China, could have wide-ranging ramifications for other foreign businesses.

A start-up in New York is among a group of companies working on systems that can produce short videos based on a few words typed into a computer.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A market-leading garage door controller is so riddled with severe security and privacy vulnerabilities that the researcher who discovered them is advising anyone using one to immediately disconnect it until they are fixed. Each $80 device used to open and close garage doors and control home security alarms and smart power...