Talks over a matchup between the two tech billionaires have progressed and the parameters of an event are taking shape.
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How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue
For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that’s vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.
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Don’t Use A.I. to Cheat in School. It’s Better for Studying.
Generative A.I. tools can annotate long documents, make flashcards, and produce practice quizzes.
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Is A.I. Poisoning Itself?, Billionaire Cage Fight and Cooking With ChatGPT
The missing ingredient in A.I. content might soon be human-generated content.
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Musk Says Twitter Is Limiting Number of Posts Users Can Read
The change on Saturday came as thousands of users complained about getting an error message that they had “exceeded” their “rate limit.”
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TSMC says some of its data was swept up in a hack on a hardware supplier
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Chipmaker TSMC said on Friday that one of its hardware suppliers experienced a “security incident” that allowed the attackers to obtain configurations and settings for some of the servers the company uses in its corporate network. The disclosure came a day after the LockBit ransomware crime syndicate listed TSMC on its...
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Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained
Enlarge / A be-hatted person, tipping his brim to the endless amount of text generated by the conflict of corporate versus enthusiast understandings of the GPL. (credit: Getty Images) When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting down its traditional “rebuild” of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to focus on its development build, Stream,...
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Torrent of image-based phishing emails are harder to detect and more convincing
Enlarge / Man hand holding a mobile phone with QR code. (credit: Getty Images) Phishing mongers have released a torrent of image-based junk emails that embed QR codes into their bodies to successfully bypass security protections and provide a level of customization to more easily fool recipients, researchers said. In many cases, the emails come...
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(BPRW) CBCF Expresses Deep Concern on SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action
(Black PR Wire) Washington, D.C. – Today, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) expresses deep concern and profound disappointment in the US Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action as we know it in the college admiss…
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Twitter’s New CEO, Linda Yaccarino, Eases Into the Hot Seat
Linda Yaccarino, who initially could not take ad sales meetings because of a noncompete clause, is adjusting to her new role reporting to Elon Musk.