In a season of layoffs and cutbacks, techies seized on the second installment of the Denis Villeneuve-directed science-fiction epic by taking over movie theaters.
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Apple Fined $2 Billion by E.U. Antitrust Regulator Over Music Streaming
Apple said it would appeal the penalty, the latest in a series of regulatory setbacks for the tech giant.
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Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules
For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make major shifts to their products and businesses.
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Microsoft Seeks to Dismiss Parts of Suit Filed by The New York Times
The tech giant and its partner OpenAI were accused of infringing on copyrights to train A.I. technologies like the online chatbot ChatGPT.
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Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by the North Korean government gained a major win when Microsoft left a Windows zero-day unpatched for six months after learning it was under active exploitation. Even after Microsoft patched the vulnerability last month, the company made no mention that the North Korean threat group Lazarus had been using...
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The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities
Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude 3 logo. (credit: Anthropic) On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of three AI language models similar to those that power ChatGPT. Anthropic claims the models set new industry benchmarks across a range of cognitive tasks, even approaching “near-human” capability in some cases. It’s available now through Anthropic’s website,...
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for Violating the Company’s Principles
Musk said the prominent A.I. start-up had put profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity.
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What Elon Musk and Sam Altman Said About Each Other
Once united over the future of artificial intelligence, they have become increasingly estranged over the years.
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US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nine days after a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate took down the biggest US health care payment processor, pharmacies, health care providers, and patients were still scrambling to fill prescriptions for medicines, many of which are lifesaving. On Thursday, UnitedHealth Group accused a notorious ransomware gang known both as AlphV and Black Cat...
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Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog said Thursday in a report that’s a likely harbinger of what’s to come. In all, JFrog researchers said, they found roughly 100 submissions that performed hidden and...