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Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence.

The internet giant said it would begin testing its new chatbot, Bard, with a small, private group before releasing it to the public in the coming weeks.

Innisfree M&A says Twitter, which Elon Musk bought last year, has not paid it $1.9 million for services it rendered for the deal.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Even inside the company, the chatbot’s popularity has come as something of a shock.

Dispatchers for 911 are being inundated with false, automated distress calls from Apple devices owned by skiers who are very much alive.

After years of expansion and billions in profits, Big Tech is pulling back from its famously lavish spending as a long boom finally ends.