Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from “The Applesoft Tutorial” BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer starting in 1981. (credit: Apple, Inc.) Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and...
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Binance’s Founder Plans a Comeback Even as He Faces Prison Time
Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.
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8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.
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Meta Faces EU Investigation Over Election Disinformation
The inquiry is intended to pressure the tech giant to more aggressively police Facebook and Instagram ahead of the European Union’s closely watched elections in June.
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Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
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Amazon Reports $143.3 Billion in Revenue for First Quarter of 2024
The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.
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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer
Enlarge / A photo of the Cheyenne supercomputer, which is now up for auction. (credit: US General Services Administration) On Tuesday, the US General Services Administration began an auction for the decommissioned Cheyenne supercomputer, located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The 5.34-petaflop supercomputer ranked as the 20th most powerful in the world at the time of its...
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Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Change Healthcare, the health care services provider that recently experienced a ransomware attack that hamstrung the US prescription market for two weeks, was hacked through a compromised account that failed to use multifactor authentication, the company CEO told members of Congress. The February 21 attack by a ransomware group using the...
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AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300
Enlarge / Be careful with the buckets you put out there for anybody to fill. (credit: Getty Images) If you’re using Amazon Web Services and your S3 storage bucket can be reached from the open web, you’d do well not to pick a generic name for that space. Avoid “example,” skip “change_me,” don’t even go...
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Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Sunday, word began to spread on social media about a new mystery chatbot named “gpt2-chatbot” that appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena. Some people speculate that it may be a secret test version of OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 large language model (LLM). The paid version of ChatGPT is currently...