The disruption is part of a broader effort to stymie Russia’s cybercampaigns against the United States and its allies, including Ukraine.
VMware admits sweeping Broadcom changes are worrying customers
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom has made a lot of changes to VMware since closing its acquisition of the company in November. On Wednesday, VMware admitted that these changes are worrying customers. With customers mulling alternatives and partners complaining, VMware is trying to do damage control and convince people that change is good. Not surprisingly, the...
Google upstages itself with Gemini 1.5 AI launch, one week after Ultra 1.0
Enlarge / The Gemini 1.5 logo, released by Google. (credit: Google) One week after its last major AI announcement, Google appears to have upstaged itself. Last Thursday, Google launched Gemini Ultra 1.0, which supposedly represented the best AI language model Google could muster—available as part of the renamed “Gemini” AI assistant (formerly Bard). Today, Google...
Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A core developer of Nginx, currently the world’s most popular web server, has quit the project, stating that he no longer sees it as “a free and open source project… for the public good.” His fork, freenginx, is “going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities,” writes Maxim Dounin,...
Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU
Enlarge (credit: Nvidia) On Tuesday, Nvidia released Chat With RTX, a free personalized AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that can run locally on a PC with an Nvidia RTX graphics card. It uses Mistral or Llama open-weights LLMs and can search through local files and answer questions about them. Chat With RTX works on Windows...
(BPRW) Terysa Solves It Presents: Alilo The Explorer Restocked to Inspire a New Generation of Young Coders
(Black PR Wire) Lafayette, LA – Terysa Ridgeway, a renowned computer scientist and children’s book author, is excited to announce the restocking of Alilo The Explorer, the highly sought-after educational toy robot designed to teach children foundatio…
The Year Chatbots Were Tamed
A year ago, a rogue A.I. tried to break up my marriage. Did the backlash help make chatbots too boring?
Terrorists Are Paying for Check Marks on X, Report Says
The report shows that X has accepted payments for subscriptions from entities barred from doing business in the United States, a potential violation of sanctions.
Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says
Microsoft and OpenAI said the A.I. had helped groups with ties to China, Russia, North Korea and Iran mostly with routine tasks.
How to Make Your Digital Smartphone Photos Look Old
Retro-photography apps that mimic the appearance of analog film formats make your digital files seem like they’re from another era.