The iPhone maker’s recent quarter benefited from strong sales in its App Store and other services businesses.
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Amazon Posts 11% Rise in Revenue as Growth Improves
The retailer also swung to a profit in the second quarter.
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When A.I. Lies About You, There’s Little Recourse
People have little protection or recourse when the technology creates and spreads falsehoods about them.
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By Rebranding Twitter as X, Elon Musk Creates Social Media Confusion
With Elon Musk’s rebranding of the app, is Twitter’s name really retired? What about tweets? We unravel the terminology puzzle.
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LK-99 Is the Ambient Superconductor of the Summer
Social media users are excited about what would be a breakthrough in solid state physics, but many experts in the field are cautiously skeptical.
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Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) Microsoft has once again come under blistering criticism for the security practices of Azure and its other cloud offerings, with the CEO of security firm Tenable saying Microsoft is “grossly irresponsible” and mired in a “culture of toxic obfuscation.” The comments from Amit Yoran, chairman and CEO of...
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Meta releases open source AI audio tools, AudioCraft
Enlarge (credit: Meta) On Wednesday, Meta announced it is open-sourcing AudioCraft, a suite of generative AI tools for creating music and audio from text prompts. With the tools, content creators can input simple text descriptions to generate complex audio landscapes, compose melodies, or even simulate entire virtual orchestras. AudioCraft consists of three core components: AudioGen,...
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Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content
Enlarge (credit: MirageC/Getty Images) ChatGPT and its artificially intelligent siblings have been tweaked over and over to prevent troublemakers from getting them to spit out undesirable messages such as hate speech, personal information, or step-by-step instructions for building an improvised bomb. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University last week showed that adding a simple incantation...
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Hosting Ars, part three: CI/CD, or how I learned to stop worrying and love DevOps
Enlarge / DevOps, DevOps, DevOps! (credit: ArtemisDiana / Getty Images) One of the most important things to happen in the evolution of development over the past many years is the widespread adoption of continuous integration and continuous deployment, or CI/CD. (Sometimes the “CD” stands for “continuous delivery,” depending on who you’re talking to.) It’s a...
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(BPRW) ThriveDX Partners with BlackGirlsHack to Launch BlackGirlsHack Scholars Program
(Black PR Wire) ThriveDX, the global leader in cybersecurity skills training, is excited to announce the launch of The ThriveDX BlackGirlsHack Scholars Program, which will provide 25 learners from BlackGirlsHack with full tuition and fees for the Thr…