Enlarge (credit: FT montage/Dreamstime) Two of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence companies announced major advances in consumer AI products last week. Microsoft-backed OpenAI said that its ChatGPT software could now “see, hear, and speak,” conversing using voice alone and responding to user queries in both pictures and words. Meanwhile, Facebook owner Meta announced that an...
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How the Big Chip Makers Are Pushing Back on Biden’s China Agenda
Nvidia, Intel and Qualcomm are campaigning to protect their businesses before further crackdowns on the sale of semiconductor technology to Beijing.
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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Criminal Trial Opens
Prosecutors said the FTX founder had lied to customers. Defense lawyers said he had just been trying to prevent his cryptocurrency exchange from melting down.
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Spotify Gave Subscribers Music and Podcasts. Next: Audiobooks.
A year after adding à la carte sales of audiobooks, Spotify is offering paying subscribers 15 hours of books a month.
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Vulnerabilities in Supermicro BMCs could allow for unkillable server rootkits
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If your organization uses servers that are equipped with baseboard management controllers from Supermicro, it may be time, once again, to patch seven high-severity vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to gain control of them. And sorry, but the fixes must be installed manually. Typically abbreviated as BMCs, baseboard management controllers are...
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Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate Elmo with a knife
Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated stickers created in Facebook Messenger and shared on social media site X. (credit: Meta) Less than a week after Meta unveiled AI-generated stickers in its Facebook Messenger app, users are already abusing it to create potentially offensive images of copyright-protected characters and sharing the results on social media, reports...
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Campbell Brown, Who Led Facebook News, Leaves Meta
Ms. Brown’s exit indicates how Meta’s priorities around news and its relationships with media companies have changed.
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What to Know About Sam Bankman-Fried’s Fraud Trial
Mr. Bankman-Fried is accused of orchestrating a vast scheme to siphon billions of dollars of FTX customer money.
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Takeaways From a New Book on Sam Bankman-Fried
“Going Infinite,” by Michael Lewis, offers a behind-the-scenes account of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall.
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They’ve begun: Attacks exploiting vulnerability with maximum 10 severity rating
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware hackers have started exploiting one or more recently fixed vulnerabilities that pose a grave threat to enterprise networks around the world, researchers said. One of the vulnerabilities has a severity rating of 10 out of a possible 10 and another 9.9. They reside in WS_FTP Server, a file-sharing app made...