Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI announced a partnership with the nonprofit Common Sense Media to create AI guidelines and educational materials targeted at parents, educators, and teens. It includes the curation of family-friendly GPTs in OpenAI’s GPT store. The collaboration aims to address concerns about the impacts of AI on children and teenagers....
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Is Cryptocurrency Like Stocks and Bonds? Courts Move Closer to an Answer.
Federal judges are weighing whether digital currencies should be subject to the same rules as stocks and bonds. The outcome could shape crypto’s future in the U.S.
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Apple Blocks Android Users From Connecting to iMessage on Macs
Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones. Now, they say Apple has blocked the messaging service on their Macs.
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Microsoft, Amazon and Google Face F.T.C. Inquiry Over A.I. Deals
The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.
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23andMe Breach Targeted Jewish and Chinese Customers, Lawsuit Says
The class-action suit said the genetic testing company failed to notify customers whose personal information was compiled into “curated” lists that were sold on the dark web.
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David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85
He developed and implemented the protocol that synchronizes the digital clocks nestled within billions of networked devices.
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In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
Enlarge The hackers who recently broke into Microsoft’s network and monitored top executives’ email for two months did so by gaining access to an aging test account with administrative privileges, a major gaffe on the company’s part, a researcher said. The new detail was provided in vaguely worded language included in a post Microsoft published...
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OpenAI updates ChatGPT-4 model with potential fix for AI “laziness” problem
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI announced updates to the AI models that power its ChatGPT assistant. Amid less noteworthy updates, OpenAI tucked in a mention of a potential fix to a widely reported “laziness” problem seen in GPT-4 Turbo since its release in November. The company also announced a new GPT-3.5 Turbo model...
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The life and times of Cozy Bear, the Russian hackers who just hit Microsoft and HPE
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said Wednesday that Kremlin-backed actors hacked into the email accounts of its security personnel and other employees last May—and maintained surreptitious access until December. The disclosure was the second revelation of a major corporate network breach by the hacking group in five days. The hacking group that...
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(BPRW) Lanny Smoot to Be the First Disney Imagineer Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
(Black PR Wire) Lanny Smoot, a Disney Research Fellow and longtime member of Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He is the first Disney Imagineer to receive this p…