Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers this week unveiled a new strain of Linux malware that’s notable for its stealth and sophistication in infecting both traditional servers and smaller Internet-of-things devices. Dubbed Shikitega by the AT&T Alien Labs researchers who discovered it, the malware is delivered through a multistage infection chain using polymorphic encoding. It also...
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Nvidia’s flagship AI chip reportedly 4.5x faster than the previous champ
Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. (credit: Nvidia) Nvidia announced yesterday that its upcoming H100 “Hopper” Tensor Core GPU set new performance records during its debut in the industry-standard MLPerf benchmarks, delivering results up to 4.5 times faster than the A100, which is currently Nvidia’s fastest production AI chip....
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Runway teases AI-powered text-to-video editing using written prompts
Enlarge / A still from Runway’s “Text to Video” teaser promo suggesting image-generation capabilities. (credit: Runway) In a tweet posted this morning, artificial intelligence company Runway teased a new feature of its AI-powered web-based video editor that can edit video from written descriptions, often called “prompts.” A promotional video appears to show very early steps...
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A Smartphone That Lasts a Decade? Yes, It’s Possible.
A smartphone that is made for longevity can be a real thing. Too bad that’s not how most of them are designed.
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When Teens Find Misinformation, These Teachers Are Ready
Media literacy efforts are intensifying, targeting students as they approach voting age. But some educators struggle “to push through that apathy.”
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Investors Sue Treasury Department for Blacklisting Tornado Cash
Tornado Cash was banned last month to prevent hacking, money-laundering and other cryptocurrency crimes.
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A Goodbye to Readers and a Reflection
In Shira Ovide’s last On Tech newsletter, she looks back at how the past two and a half years have shifted her thinking on technology.
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Twitter Reached $7 Million Settlement With Whistle-Blower
Lawyers for Elon Musk mentioned a $7 million payment to Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former top security executive, in a court hearing this week.
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Feds claw back $30 million of cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cryptocurrency analytics firm Chainalysis said on Thursday that it helped the US government seize $30 million worth of digital coins that North Korean-backed hackers stole earlier this year from the developer of the non-fungible token-based game Axie Infinite. When accounting for the more than 50 percent fall in cryptocurrency prices since...
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With Koe Recast, you can change your voice as easily as your clothing
Enlarge / A colorful waveform dramatically swirls through latent space, seeking kawaii. (credit: Getty Images) Thanks to a web demo of a new AI tool called Koe Recast, you can transform up to 20 seconds of your voice into different styles, including an anime character, a deep male narrator, an ASMR whisper, and more. It’s...