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Waymo and Cruise hope to widen their projects to more of the city. But local officials are increasingly concerned about breakdowns causing congestion.

Enlarge / A realistic artist’s depiction of an encounter with ChatGPT Plus. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica / OpenAI) On Wednesday, Reuters reported that AI bot ChatGPT reached an estimated 100 million active monthly users last month, a mere two months from launch, making it the “fastest-growing consumer application in history,” according to a...

As many as 29,000 network storage devices manufactured by Taiwan-based QNAP are vulnerable to hacks that are easy to carry out and give unauthenticated users on the Internet complete control, a security firm has warned. The vulnerability, which carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10, came to light on Monday, when...

Enlarge / A still image from the short film Dog and Boy,, which uses image synthesis to help generate background artwork. (credit: Netflix) Over the past year, generative AI has kicked off a wave of existential dread over potential machine-fueled job loss not seen since the advent of the industrial revolution. On Tuesday, Netflix reinvigorated...

Enlarge (credit: Getty) SSDs have usurped hard disk drives (HDDs) when it comes to performance, but whether building a network-attached storage (NAS) or having high-capacity needs on a budget, plenty of people still rely on spinning platters. Older drives that have seen a lot of use, however, may not be as reliable as before. Data...

Enlarge / An image from Stable Diffusion’s training set compared (left) to a similar Stable Diffusion generation (right) when prompted with “Ann Graham Lotz.” (credit: Carlini et al., 2023) On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google, DeepMind, UC Berkeley, Princeton, and ETH Zurich released a paper outlining an adversarial attack that can extract...

The plane known as “Queen of the Skies” helped make air travel more affordable, but it has been supplanted by smaller, more efficient aircraft.

After a yearlong investigation, a federal labor board determined that the tech giant’s rules interfere with employees’ right to organize.

The maker of Snapchat also swung to a loss in the latest quarter and projected that its sales would decline.

A regulatory filing says officials have asked about software that Elon Musk, the chief executive, has said would allow cars to operate autonomously.