Enlarge / Screen capture of a Runway Gen-3 Alpha video generated with the prompt “A giant humanoid, made of fluffy blue cotton candy, stomping on the ground, and roaring to the sky, clear blue sky behind them.” (credit: Runway) On Sunday, Runway announced a new AI video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha that’s still under...
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Men plead guilty to aggravated ID theft after pilfering police database
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two men have pleaded guilty to charges of computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft tied to their theft of records from a law enforcement database for use in doxxing and extorting multiple individuals. Sagar Steven Singh, 20, and Nicholas Ceraolo, 26, admitted to being members of ViLE, a group that specializes...
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Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank recently announced that it has been developing “emotion-canceling” technology powered by AI that will alter the voices of angry customers to sound calmer during phone calls with customer service representatives. The project aims to reduce the psychological burden on operators suffering from harassment and...
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How Crypto Money Is Poised to Influence the Election
The industry’s political awakening — and enormous pool of cash — is already affecting high-profile races across the country.
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FTC Sues Adobe Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions and Fees
The maker of Photoshop and other popular design software hid details of expensive cancellation fees, according to a Justice Department lawsuit.
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How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development
In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.
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Can A.I. Answer the Needs of Smaller Businesses? Some Push to Find Out.
Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are finding widest use at big companies, but there is wide expectation that the impact will spread.
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Lynn Conway, Computing Pioneer and Transgender Advocate, Dies at 86
She made significant contributions at IBM, but she lost her job because of her conviction that she inhabited the wrong body. She later fought for transgender rights.
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High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware manufacturer Asus has released updates patching multiple critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to remotely take control of a range of router models with no authentication or interaction required of end users. The most critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3080 is an authentication bypass flaw that can allow remote attackers to log...
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Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Proton, the secure-minded email and productivity suite, is becoming a nonprofit foundation, but it doesn’t want you to think about it in the way you think about other notable privacy and web foundations. “We believe that if we want to bring about large-scale change, Proton can’t be billionaire-subsidized (like Signal), Google-subsidized...