Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two days after an international team of authorities struck a major blow at LockBit, one of the Internet’s most prolific ransomware syndicates, researchers have detected a new round of attacks that are installing malware associated with the group. The attacks, detected in the past 24 hours, are exploiting two critical vulnerabilities...
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Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator
Enlarge / Stable Diffusion 3 generation with the prompt: studio photograph closeup of a chameleon over a black background. (credit: Stability AI) On Thursday, Stability AI announced Stable Diffusion 3, an open-weights next-generation image-synthesis model. It follows its predecessors by reportedly generating detailed, multi-subject images with improved quality and accuracy in text generation. The brief...
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Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images
Enlarge / Generations from Gemini AI from the prompt, “Paint me a historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king.” (credit: @stratejake / X) On Thursday morning, Google announced it was pausing its Gemini AI image-synthesis feature in response to criticism that the tool was inserting diversity into its images in a historically inaccurate way,...
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70,000 AT&T customers were without service this morning across the US
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 70,000 AT&T cellular customers reported being unable to connect to service early Thursday morning. While early reports suggested multiple carriers, including Verizon and T-Mobile, seemed to be affected, that appears to be a knock-on effect of a major network going down. As of late Thursday morning, AT&T had told...
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Nvidia Earnings Show Soaring Profit and Revenue Amid AI Boom
The A.I. chip maker’s revenue more than tripled, and profits rose ninefold. It also projected that its revenue would more than triple again.
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China’s Rush to Dominate A.I. Comes With a Twist: It Depends on U.S. Technology
China’s tech firms were caught off guard by breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence. Beijing’s regulations and a sagging economy aren’t helping.
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Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Are Breaking Up With China
Under intensifying scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers, top firms have pulled back from investing in Chinese start-ups.
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Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots
Like Meta, the company opened access to its technology to outside programmers, but kept its most powerful system under wraps.
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Let Tesla Expand? Germans Vote No.
A local town’s vote against the U.S. automaker’s proposed expansion is nonbinding, but citizens expect it to be honored.
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iMessage gets a major makeover that puts it on equal footing with Signal
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to withstand the coming advent of quantum computing, largely at parity with Signal or arguably incrementally more hardened. On Wednesday, Apple said messages sent through iMessage will now be protected by two forms of end-to-end...