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Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that break current App Store rules

Enlarge / Mozilla’s current logo for Firefox. (credit: Mozilla) Companies like Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft have versions of their web browsers on Apple’s iOS and iPadOS App Stores, but these versions come with a big caveat: The App Store rules require them to use Safari’s WebKit rendering engine rather than the engines those browsers use...

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Hackers are mass infecting servers worldwide by exploiting a patched hole

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An explosion of cyberattacks is infecting servers around the world with crippling ransomware by exploiting a vulnerability that was patched two years ago, it was widely reported on Monday. The hacks exploit a flaw in ESXi, a hypervisor VMware sells to cloud hosts and other large-scale enterprises to consolidate their hardware...

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Endless Seinfeld episode grinds to a halt after AI comic violates Twitch guidelines

Enlarge / A screenshot of Nothing, Forever showing faux-Seinfeld character Larry Feinberg performing a stand-up act. (credit: Nothing Forever) Since December 14, a Twitch channel called Nothing, Forever has been streaming a live, endless AI-generated Seinfeld episode that features pixelated cartoon versions of characters from the TV show. On Monday, Twitch gave the channel a...

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Ars Archivum: Top cloud backup services worth your money

We tested iDrive with its free Basic tier, which offers 10GB of storage. [credit: Jim Salter ] If there’s one rule of computing every system administrator preaches, it’s to always back up important data. Unfortunately, even among sysadmins, this rule is often preached more than it is practiced—backups tend to be slow, cumbersome affairs that...

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Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups

Enlarge (credit: zhengshun tang via Getty Images) Big Tech companies are aggressively pursuing investments and alliances with artificial intelligence startups through their cloud computing arms, raising regulatory questions over their role as both suppliers and competitors in the battle to develop “generative AI.” Google’s recent $300 million bet on San Francisco-based Anthropic is the latest...