IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
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Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the world’s most active ransomware groups has taken an unusual—if not unprecedented—tactic to pressure one of its victims to pay up: reporting the victim to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The pressure tactic came to light in a post published on Wednesday on the dark web site run...
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“Make It Real” AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software
Enlarge / A shot of tldraw’s “Make it Real” in action, provided by Ashe on X: “Ok…@tldraw is super fun. I iterated through ~10 builds today and it cost me $0.90 using GPT4. The pong game is playable as described.” (credit: Ashe Oro) On Wednesday, a collaborative whiteboard app maker called “tldraw” made waves online...
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Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral
Enlarge / Screen capture from a demo video of an AI-generated unauthorized David Attenborough voice narrating a developer’s video feed. (credit: Charlie Holtz) On Wednesday, Replicate developer Charlie Holtz combined GPT-4 Vision (commonly called GPT-4V) and ElevenLabs voice cloning technology to create an unauthorized AI version of the famous naturalist David Attenborough narrating Holtz’s every...
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No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
Enlarge / Users in the extended European Economic Area will soon be able to avoid most of the things that feel so exhausting about Windows 11. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Using Windows these days means putting up with many, many pitches to use and purchase other Microsoft products. Some are subtle, like the built-in Edge browser...
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The “Windows App” for Mac, iOS, and browsers is a fancy remote desktop, for now
Enlarge / If you have a bunch of Windows systems, Microsoft now has an app for that. It’s called “Windows App.” Microsoft just has a certain way with naming things. (credit: Microsoft) It feels strange to say it, but it’s true: There is an app called, simply, “Windows.” It’s available for early testing on Mac,...
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(BPRW) Florida Beach Bowl to host a Virtual Press Conference, set for Thursday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m.
(Black PR Wire) The Florida Beach Bowl (FBB) will conduct a virtual press conference to officially present the two HBCU Football Teams selected to participate in the Inaugural Florida Beach Bowl. The press conference takes place on Thursday, November…
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Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Hate Speech Surges Across the Internet
Fueled by the conflict between Israel and Gaza and stoked by extremists, hate speech has spiked on social media platforms such as X, Facebook and Instagram, researchers said.
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We No Longer Need a Big Carrier’s Wireless Plan. Discount Ones Are the Way.
We are overpaying for phone plans from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. Budget wireless services, similarly fast and robust, can save thousands.
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Developers can’t seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code
Enlarge (credit: Victor De Schwanberg/Science Photo Library via Getty Images) Despite more than a decade of reminding, prodding, and downright nagging, a surprising number of developers still can’t bring themselves to keep their code free of credentials that provide the keys to their kingdoms to anyone who takes the time to look for them. The...