Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products.
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Jean Twenge Is Still Warning Parents About Teens and Screen Time. Is Anyone Listening?
The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen.
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YouTube’s NFL Broadcast Will Test Platform’s Ability to Handle Live Sports
YouTube’s live broadcast on Friday night of the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers game is set to be a major test of the platform’s programming ambitions.
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The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds
Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products.
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Elon Musk Could Become First Trillionaire Under New Tesla Pay Package
Tesla’s board unveiled a compensation package for the chief executive that could be worth $900 billion if he meets ambitious targets.
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A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.
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Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.
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ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people
On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people with fixed viewpoints but rather malleable tools you can rewind and redirect. The company released the feature for all logged-in web users following years of user requests for the capability....
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The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.
Wednesday’s discovery of three mis-issued TLS certificates for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 encrypted DNS lookup service generated intense interest and concern among Internet security practitioners. The revelation raised the possibility that an unknown entity had obtained the cryptographic equivalent of a skeleton key that could be used to surreptitiously decrypt millions of users’ DNS queries that were...
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Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through custom adaptations. The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute...