Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A ransomware outfit calling itself Vice Society has dumped nearly 300,000 files belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District as punishment for rebuffing demands it pay the group a hefty fee to recover data stolen during a recent cyber intrusion. Ransomware operators breach targets’ networks, encrypt all their data, and...
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Linux 6.0 arrives with support for newer chips, core fixes, and oddities
Enlarge / And there was much rejoicing, as a new Linux kernel version had arrived before its founder ran out of fingers and toes for counting. (credit: Getty Images) A stable version of Linux 6.0 is out, with 15,000 non-merge commits and a notable version number for the kernel. And while major Linux releases only...
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Bruce Willis denies selling deepfake rights to Deepcake [Updated]
Enlarge / The real Bruce Willis at a film premiere in 2019. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, Ars Technica reported that Bruce Willis had sold his likeness for use in deepfakes, according to The Telegraph. Dozens of news sites repeated the Telegraph’s claim. Over the weekend, the BBC discovered that Bruce Willis has “no partnership...
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U.S. Said to Plan New Limits on China’s A.I. and Supercomputing Firms
The new rules could be the most sweeping action taken yet by the Biden administration to thwart China’s access to American technology that powers data centers and supercomputers.
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How a Tiny Elections Company Became a Conspiracy Theory Target
Election deniers catapulted a Michigan firm with just 21 U.S. employees to the center of unfounded voter fraud claims, exposing it to vicious threats.
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Silicon Valley County Battles With Uber Over Reporting of Sexual Assault
Uber does not inform the police of such incidents, citing advocacy group guidelines. But officials in Santa Clara County argue that it should.
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A New Refrain From Artists: We ‘Almost Gave Up on Instagram’
Photographers and illustrators who once eagerly shared images of their work on Instagram are moving away from the site as it emphasizes video.
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N.L.R.B. Rules Activision Withheld Raises Because of Union Activity
The embattled video game company is in union negotiations with workers at its subsidiary Raven Software.
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Tesla shows off unfinished humanoid robot prototypes at AI Day 2022
Enlarge / The walking Optimus prototype demonstrated at the AI Day 2022 event. (credit: Tesla) Today at Tesla’s “AI Day” event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled an early prototype of its Optimus humanoid robot, which emerged from behind a curtain, walked around, waved, and “raised the roof” with its hands to the beat of techno...
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Can Smartphones Help Predict Suicide?
A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors to identify periods of high danger — and intervene.