A new reality is setting in for students and recent graduates who spent years honing themselves for careers at the largest tech companies.
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Final Fantasy Reunion Review: Reboot Is a Much Better Game
The new Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion was overhauled in graphics and gameplay, making it much better than the original.
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Adobe Stock begins selling AI-generated artwork
Enlarge / An AI-generated watercolor illustration, now eligible for inclusion in Adobe Stock. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Monday, Adobe announced that its stock photography service, Adobe Stock, would begin allowing artists to submit AI-generated imagery for sale, Axios reports. The move comes during Adobe’s embrace of image synthesis and also during industry-wide...
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The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT
A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails.
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The Crypto Industry Struggles for a Way Forward After FTX Collapse
The implosion of the exchange FTX shows how an industry built in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has drifted far from its original ideals.
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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield to Step Down in January
Stewart Butterfield, the chief executive of Slack, which is owned by Salesforce, is the latest to announce an exit from Salesforce in recent weeks.
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Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi Set Off Debate Over Release of Twitter Files
A release of internal documents from Twitter set off intense debates in the intersecting worlds of media, politics and tech.
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Detective Sued Over SWAT Raid Based on Wrong Location on the Find My App
A detective relied on flawed information provided by the Find My app for a warrant that led the police to raid the home of a 77-year-old Denver woman, a lawsuit says.
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No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep learning AI model, uses its stored knowledge to simulate...
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Syntax errors are the doom of us all, including botnet authors
Enlarge / If you’re going to come at port 443, you best not miss (or forget to put a space between URL and port). (credit: Getty Images) KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet that could also be used for denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, broke into systems through weak secure shell credentials. It could remotely control a system, it...