Enlarge / Take a peek inside the Ars vault with us! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A bit over three years ago, just before COVID hit, we ran a long piece on the tools and tricks that make Ars function without a physical office. Ars has spent decades perfecting how to get things done...
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(BPRW) Colette D. Honorable to Join Exelon as Executive Vice President of Public Policy and Chief External Affairs Officer
(Black PR Wire) CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC) today announced that it has named renowned energy policy leader Colette D. Honorable as the company’s executive vice president of Public Policy and Chief External Affairs Officer. …
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(BPRW) In an Historic Vote, CWA Elects Claude Cummings Jr. President and Ameenah Salaam Secretary-Treasurer
(Black PR Wire) St. Louis, Mo. – In an historic election, Claude Cummings Jr. was elected as president of the Communications Workers of America by delegates to the union’s 79th convention and Ameenah Salaam was elected Secretary-Treasurer…
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Meta Unveils a More Powerful A.I. and Isn’t Fretting Over Who Uses It
The company said it would give outside programmers access to the latest version of its core artificial intelligence technology.
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Advertisers Warily Embrace A.I.
Many ads are easier to make with the fast-improving technology. It also poses a threat to an industry already in flux.
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A ChatGPT That Recognizes Faces? OpenAI Worries World Isn’t Ready.
An advanced version of ChatGPT can analyze images and is already helping the blind. But its ability to put a name to a face is one reason the public doesn’t have access to it.
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Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth
Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?
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U.N. Officials Urge Regulation of AI at Security Council Meeting
Security Council members said they feared that a new technology might prove a major threat to world peace.
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Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues
Enlarge (credit: Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images)) OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to a planned wide release. However, public access is being curtailed due to concerns about its ability to potentially recognize specific individuals, according to a New York Times report on Tuesday. When OpenAI announced GPT-4 earlier...
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Exploited 0-days, an incomplete fix, and a botched disclosure: Infosec snafu reigns
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Organizations big and small are once again scrambling to patch critical vulnerabilities that are already under active exploitation and cause the kind of breaches coveted by ransomware actors and nation-state spies. The exploited vulnerabilities—one in Adobe ColdFusion and the other in various Citrix NetScaler products—allow for the remote execution of malicious...