The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.
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Is Garry Tan San Francisco’s ‘Twitter Menace’ or True Believer?
The deep pockets of the tech investor Garry Tan are valued by his allies, but his pugnacious online habits are creating plenty of enemies in the city he says he wants to save.
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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Image) On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsén. The so-called “Lenna image,” (Forsén added an extra “n” to her name in her Playboy...
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Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
Enlarge / Internet Backdoor in a string of binary code in a shape of an eye. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian. The compression utility, known as xz Utils, introduced the malicious...
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OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tech due to misuse concerns
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art ability to read words aloud using an electronic voice. Now, using deep-learning AI models, software can create not only realistic-sounding voices, but also convincingly imitate existing voices using small samples of...
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(BPRW) Chevron Announces Opening of Fab Labs at HBCUs
(Black PR Wire) SAN RAMON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), and the Fab Foundation today announced the official opening of Fab Labs at Fort Valley State University and Florida A&M Uni…
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(BPRW) Qore Partners with QoreID, (A VerifyMe Company) to Enhance Financial Security in Africa
(Black PR Wire) Lagos – Qore, the leading Banking-as-a-Service platform provider in Africa, has partnered with QoreID, A VerifyMe Company, Africa’s foremost data and e-KYC technology provider, to deliver robust, reliable, and rea…
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Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for FTX Fraud
Mr. Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of stealing $8 billion from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, faced a maximum sentence of 110 years.
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Sentence: How It Compares With Bernie Madoff’s and Others
Here’s how the former crypto mogul’s 25-year sentence stacks up against the prosecutions of Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff and others.
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Use AI to See, Hear and Speak. What Are They Like?
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.