Enlarge / A robotic arm controlled by PaLM-E reaches for a bag of chips in a demonstration video. (credit: Google Research) On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that integrates vision and language for robotic...
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Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free, no Office or Microsoft 365 required [Updated]
Enlarge / The current Outlook for Mac email client. (credit: Microsoft) Update, 4:36pm: Microsoft has updated its post to indicate that the “ground up” redesign coming for the Mac version of Outlook will continue to be a “native Mac app,” and not a “Progressive Web App (PWA)” like the one the company is testing in Windows....
How Some Gen Z Instagram Users Post to Facebook: Unwittingly
Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed. The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design.
White House Said to Consider Pushing Congress on Dealing With TikTok
In a strategy shift, the Biden administration is increasingly pointing to Congress to give it more legal power to deal with TikTok and other technology that could expose Americans’ sensitive data to China.
Threat actors are using advanced malware to backdoor business-grade routers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have uncovered advanced malware that’s turning business-grade routers into attacker-controlled listening posts that can sniff email and steal files in an ongoing campaign hitting North and South America and Europe. Besides passively capturing IMAP, SMTP, and POP email, the malware also backdoors routers with a remote access Trojan that allows...
Microsoft aims to reduce “tedious” business tasks with new AI tools
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of a GPT-powered robot worker. (credit: Ars Technica) On Monday, Microsoft bundled ChatGPT-style AI technology into its Power Platform developer tool and Dynamics 365, Reuters reports. Affected tools include Power Virtual Agent and AI Builder, both of which have been updated to include GPT large language model (LLM) technology created...
Twitter revenue, earnings reportedly fell 40% shortly after Musk buyout
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Twitter’s revenue and adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year over year in December 2022 amid an advertiser exodus following Elon Musk’s takeover. Twitter no longer reports earnings publicly since Musk bought the company and took it private in late October. But Twitter reported the December 2022...
Twitter API error broke the site today as Musk blames “brittle” platform
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Twitter suffered an embarrassing technology failure today that temporarily broke links to outside websites and even to Twitter’s own webpages. The problem lasted for about 45 minutes or so. In our tests, clicking any link brought up this error message: {“errors”:[{“message”:”Your current API plan does not include access...
Stealthy UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot enabled by unpatchable Windows flaw
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Researchers on Wednesday announced a major cybersecurity find—the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled and running on fully updated versions of Windows. Dubbed BlackLotus, the malware is what’s known as a...
(BPRW) Introducing the So Ambitious HBCU Tour
(Black PR Wire) Black Ambition, Techstars, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund are collaborating to gather undergraduate and graduate students studying across disciplines at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to experience the hi…