Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, Axios broke the news that OpenAI had signed deals with The Atlantic and Vox Media that will allow the ChatGPT maker to license their editorial content to further train its language models. But some of the publications’ writers—and the unions that represent them—were surprised by the announcements and aren’t...
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Google’s AI Overview is flawed by design, and a new company blog post hints at why
Enlarge / The Google “G” logo surrounded by whimsical characters, all of which look stunned and surprised. (credit: Google) On Thursday, Google capped off a rough week of providing inaccurate and sometimes dangerous answers through its experimental AI Overview feature by authoring a follow-up blog post titled, “AI Overviews: About last week.” In the post,...
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Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical security bug in Linux to its list of vulnerabilities known to be actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1086 and carrying a severity rating of 7.8 out of a possible 10, allows people who have already gained...
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(BPRW) DailyPay Proudly Participates in the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Future of Technology Event ‘The PITCH™’
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK – DailyPay, a worktech company and leading provider of earned wage access (EWA), was honored to partner and play a meaningful role in the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s (TMCF) ‘The PITCH™’ even…
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OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its A.I. in Covert Campaigns
Iran and an Israeli company also exploited the tools in online influence efforts, but none gained much traction, an OpenAI report said.
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Europe Banned Russia’s RT Network. Its Content Is Still Spreading.
A study found that hundreds of sites, many without obvious Kremlin links, copied Russian propaganda and spread it to unsuspecting audiences ahead of the E.U. election.
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The Very Slow Restart of G.M.’s Cruise Driverless Car Business
An incident that seriously injured a pedestrian in San Francisco led Cruise to take all of its cars off the road. The question now is when they will return.
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Tech giants form AI group to counter Nvidia with new interconnect standard
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, several major tech companies, including Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, and Broadcom, announced the formation of the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group to develop a new interconnect standard for AI accelerator chips in data centers. The group aims to create an alternative to Nvidia’s...
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Law enforcement operation takes aim at an often-overlooked cybercrime linchpin
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An international cast of law enforcement agencies has struck a blow at a cybercrime linchpin that’s as obscure as it is instrumental in the mass-infection of devices: so-called droppers, the sneaky software that’s used to install ransomware, spyware, and all manner of other malware. Europol said Wednesday it made four arrests,...
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Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One day last October, subscribers to an ISP known as Windstream began flooding message boards with reports their routers had suddenly stopped working and remained unresponsive to reboots and all other attempts to revive them. “The routers now just sit there with a steady red light on the front,” one user...