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Lobbyists have held up nation’s first right-to-repair bill in New York

Enlarge / Tech companies, including Apple, have lobbied hard to prevent a New York bill that would require them to make repair information and parts available to individuals and non-affiliated repair techs. (credit: Getty Images) The Digital Fair Repair Act, the first right-to-repair bill to entirely pass through a state legislature, is awaiting New York...

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The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater

Enlarge (credit: Huang Evan via Getty Images) In 2022, an American dressed in his pajamas took down North Korea’s Internet from his living room. Fortunately, there was no reprisal against the United States. But Kim Jong Un and his generals must have weighed retaliation and asked themselves whether the so-called independent hacker was a front...

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Riffusion’s AI generates music from text using visual sonograms

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of musical notes exploding forth from a computer monitor. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, a pair of tech hobbyists released Riffusion, an AI model that generates music from text prompts by creating a visual representation of sound and converting it to audio for playback. It uses a fine-tuned version of...