Enlarge / A cropped portion of the unauthorized AI-generated version of Hanks that the actor warned about on his Instagram feed. (credit: Tom Hanks) News of AI deepfakes spread quickly when you’re Tom Hanks. On Sunday, the actor posted a warning on Instagram about an unauthorized AI-generated version of himself being used to sell a...
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Researchers show how easy it is to defeat AI watermarks
Enlarge (credit: James Marshall/Getty Images) Soheil Feizi considers himself an optimistic person. But the University of Maryland computer science professor is blunt when he sums up the current state of watermarking AI images. “We don’t have any reliable watermarking at this point,” he says. “We broke all of them.” For one of the two types...
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Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is Ubiquitous
Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is the government’s biggest-name witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google.
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Crypto Goes on Trial, as Sam Bankman-Fried Faces His Reckoning
The FTX founder’s uphill court battle starts Tuesday, after he has come to symbolize everything that went wrong with the cryptocurrency industry.
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Who’s Rooting Hardest for a Sam Bankman-Fried Conviction? The Crypto Industry.
Crypto insiders, who have been trying to distance themselves from the FTX founder, are united in their zeal to see Mr. Bankman-Fried held to account.
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How a Pricing Change Led to a Revolt by Unity’s Video Game Developers
In an industry where customers are slow to trust and quick to criticize, a new fee from Unity infuriated studios that use its platform.
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Takeaways From a New Book on Sam Bankman-Fried
“Going Infinite,” by Michael Lewis, offers a behind-the-scenes account of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall.
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Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle
Enlarge / The image a Bing Chat user shared to trick its AI model into solving a CAPTCHA. (credit: Denis Shiryaev / Ars Technica) Bing Chat, an AI chatbot from Microsoft similar to ChatGPT, allows users to upload images for the AI model to examine or discuss. Normally, Bing Chat refuses to solve CAPTCHAs, which...
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Vulnerable Arm GPU drivers under active exploitation. Patches may not be available
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Arm warned on Monday of active ongoing attacks targeting a vulnerability in device drivers for its Mali line of GPUs, which run on a host of devices, including Google Pixels and other Android handsets, Chromebooks, and hardware running Linux. “A local non-privileged user can make improper GPU memory processing operations to...
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(BPRW) BLACK LOVE INC TAKES TIMES SQUARE WITH SIX PODCAST AWARD WINS
(Black PR Wire) New York, NY – Ahead of International Podcast Day, Black Podcasting Awards (BPAwards) bestowed 35 new awards to 29 different podcasts during a live stream from Podstream Studios on Times Square Sunday September 24. Black Love Inc. ca…