Enlarge / An AI-generated cartoon depiction of a chatbot being crossed out. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion) According to internal sources and company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has restricted its employees’ use of ChatGPT and AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot for fear of leaking confidential data to outside...
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Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers
In the past year, about half the people who played online multiplayer games in the world’s major gaming markets encountered extremist statements, a new study found.
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Meta Made Its AI Tech Open-Source. Rivals Say It’s a Risky Decision.
The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
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Another Side of the AI Boom: Detecting What AI Makes
More than a dozen companies have popped up to offer services aimed at identifying whether photos, text and videos are made by humans or machines.
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Montana Governor Bans TikTok in the State
The legislation is the most extreme prohibition of the app in the nation and will almost certainly face legal challenges.
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Twitter Accuses Microsoft of Improperly Using Its Data
In a letter to Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement.
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Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled
Enlarge / Cybercriminals or anonymous hackers use malware on mobile phones to hack personal and business passwords online. (credit: Getty Images) Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security. While the OS itself and Google’s Pixels have stood up over the years against software exploits, the never-ending flow of malicious apps in...
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Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the Internet pushes back
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be a boon to online scammers who trick people into clicking on malicious links. Frequently abbreviated as TLD, a top-level domain is the rightmost segment...
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CEO: Raspberry Pi is “where we said we’d be” for 2023, recovery to follow
Enlarge / It’s hard to recover from a shortage, especially when buyers take on stockpiling habits, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in a recent interview. But the British company is on track to return some stock to individual buyers. (credit: Raspberry Pi) Having to make the pandemic-pressure choice to either disappoint hobbyists and educators...
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AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app
Enlarge / Screenshots of the ChatGPT iPhone app provided by OpenAI. (credit: OpenAI) On Thursday, OpenAI released a free ChatGPT app for iPhone in the US that includes voice input support through its Whisper AI speech recognition model; it can also synchronize chat history with the web version of the AI assistant. The move brings...