Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising “numerous” organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, and IT services industries, Microsoft said on Thursday. ZINC—Microsoft’s name for a threat actor group also called Lazarus,...
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Meta announces Make-A-Video, which generates video from text
Enlarge / Still image from an AI-generated video of a teddy bear painting a portrait. (credit: Meta) Today, Meta announced Make-A-Video, an AI-powered video generator that can create novel video content from text or image prompts, similar to existing image synthesis tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. It can also make variations of existing videos,...
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Stuck on the Streets of San Francisco in a Driverless Car
A reporter and a photographer went for a ride in an experimental autonomous vehicle operated by the General Motors subsidiary Cruise. There were bumps in the road.
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U.S. and Russia Duel Over Leadership of U.N. Tech Group
Member countries vote on Thursday for an American or a Russian to lead the International Telecommunication Union, which sets standards for new technologies.
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On Portugal’s ‘Bitcoin Beach,’ Crypto Optimism Still Reigns
In crypto havens such as Meia Praia beach, the confidence in digital currencies remains undimmed even after this summer’s crash.
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The Crypto World Is on Edge After a String of Hacks
More than $2 billion in digital currency has been stolen in hacks this year, shaking faith in the experimental field of decentralized finance, known as DeFi.
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Google to Make Search and Maps More ‘Immersive’
From more photo-based results to neighborhood “vibe” checks, the company announced updates meant to keep two of its most popular products on trend.
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Never-before-seen malware has infected hundreds of Linux and Windows devices
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have revealed a never-before-seen piece of cross-platform malware that has infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including small office routers, FreeBSD boxes, and large enterprise servers. Black Lotus Labs, the research arm of security firm Lumen, is calling the malware Chaos, a word that repeatedly appears in...
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Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google
Enlarge / CAPTCHAs are meant to prevent these kinds of browsing scenarios, not train us all to better recognize vehicles and infrastructure in grainy photos. (credit: Getty Images) Cloudflare has recently made an audacious claim: We could all be doing something better with our lives than deciding which images contain crosswalks or stop lights or...
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DALL-E image generator is now open to everyone
Enlarge / An artwork created with OpenAI’s DALL-E image generator. (credit: OpenAI) If you’ve been itching to try OpenAI’s image synthesis tool but have been stymied by the lack of an invitation, now’s your chance. Today, OpenAI announced that it removed the waitlist for its DALL-E AI image generator service. That means anyone can sign...