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Enlarge / A Wi-Fi router. (credit: Getty Images | deepblue4you) The US Justice Department said Wednesday that the FBI surreptitiously sent commands to hundreds of infected small office and home office routers to remove malware China state-sponsored hackers were using to wage attacks on critical infrastructure. The routers—mainly Cisco and Netgear devices that had reached...

Enlarge / With so many choices, selecting the perfect GPT can be confusing. (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new feature in ChatGPT that allows users to pull custom personalities called “GPTs” into any ChatGPT conversation with the @ symbol. It allows a level of quasi-teamwork within ChatGPT among expert roles that was...

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have been on a layoff spree this month, with the latest cuts differing from last year’s mass reductions.

Some tech workers are filming their layoffs and sharing them on social media. They say it’s part catharsis, part transparency.

Artificial intelligence technology has drastically simplified the creation of images of children being exploited or abused, whether real or fake.

The billionaire said his company’s first product, called Telepathy, would let a person control a phone or computer “just by thinking.”

Shareholders had sued, arguing that Mr. Musk’s compensation — which helped make him the world’s richest person — was excessive.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ars Technica was recently used to serve second-stage malware in a campaign that used a never-before-seen attack chain to cleverly cover its tracks, researchers from security firm Mandiant reported Tuesday. A benign image of a pizza was uploaded to a third-party website and was then linked with a URL pasted into...

Enlarge / A CAD render of the Poem/1 sitting on a bookshelf. (credit: Matt Webb) On Tuesday, product developer Matt Webb launched a Kickstarter funding project for a whimsical e-paper clock called the “Poem/1” that tells the current time using AI and rhyming poetry. It’s powered by the ChatGPT API, and Webb says that sometimes...

Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology.