A new generation of chatbots doesn’t have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks.
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Lithium Scarcity Pushes Carmakers Into the Mining Business
Ford, General Motors and others are striking deals with mining companies to avoid raw material shortages that could thwart their electric vehicle ambitions.
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Why Car Repairs Have Become So Expensive
More technology and creature comforts, as well as a parade of new electric vehicles, have complicated the job after accidents.
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336,000 servers remain unpatched against critical Fortigate vulnerability
Enlarge Researchers say that nearly 336,000 devices exposed to the Internet remain vulnerable to a critical vulnerability in firewalls sold by Fortinet because admins have yet to install patches the company released three weeks ago. CVE-2023-27997 is a remote code execution in Fortigate VPNs, which are included in the company’s firewalls. The vulnerability, which stems...
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A ‘Cage Match’ Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg May Be No Joke
Talks over a matchup between the two tech billionaires have progressed and the parameters of an event are taking shape.
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How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue
For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that’s vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.
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Don’t Use A.I. to Cheat in School. It’s Better for Studying.
Generative A.I. tools can annotate long documents, make flashcards, and produce practice quizzes.
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Is A.I. Poisoning Itself?, Billionaire Cage Fight and Cooking With ChatGPT
The missing ingredient in A.I. content might soon be human-generated content.
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Musk Says Twitter Is Limiting Number of Posts Users Can Read
The change on Saturday came as thousands of users complained about getting an error message that they had “exceeded” their “rate limit.”
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TSMC says some of its data was swept up in a hack on a hardware supplier
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Chipmaker TSMC said on Friday that one of its hardware suppliers experienced a “security incident” that allowed the attackers to obtain configurations and settings for some of the servers the company uses in its corporate network. The disclosure came a day after the LockBit ransomware crime syndicate listed TSMC on its...