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Friday May 16, 2025. 07:33 AM
Fears surrendering to GenAI makes humans less competitive Science fiction author Neal Stephenson has suggested AIs should be allowed to fight other AIs, because evolution brings balance to ecosystems, but also thinks humans should stop using AI before it dumbs down our...
Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show Microsoft has failed to deliver a special version of Azure for EU cloud providers on time, raising the specter of legal action if it is unable to devise a 'commercially...
A Northeastern University student demanded her tuition money back after discovering her business professor was secretly using AI to create course materials. Ella Stapleton, who graduated this year, grew suspicious when she noticed telltale signs of AI generation in her...
An anonymous reader shares an opinion piece from The Guardian, written by columnist Emma Brockes: Mark Zuckerberg has gone on a promotional tour to talk up the potential of AI in human relationships. I know; listening to Zuck on friendship is a bit like taking business...
xAI is under fire after it revealed an employee tampered with Grok, its controversial AI bot on X, forcing it to make a statement about the South African genocide situation. According to xAI, the incident happened on May 14 at around 3:15 AM PST. An employee made an...
Cupertino's plan to spend $500bn stateside wasn’t enough to placate the tycoon of tariffs US president Donald Trump has told Apple CEO Tim Cook he has a problem with his plan to manufacture iThings in India.…
YouTube has suspended ad revenue for two additional channels -- Screen Trailers and Royal Trailer -- as part of an ongoing effort to combat fake movie trailers using AI-generated content. These channels, alternative accounts of previously demonetized Screen Culture and KH...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said Thursday that Apple has 'neither accepted nor rejected' Fortnite's second App Store submission, potentially delaying the game's major update planned for Friday. Epic initially submitted Fortnite on May 9 following Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' ...
They're smishing, they're vishing The FBI has warned that fraudsters are impersonating 'senior US officials' using deepfakes as part of a major fraud campaign.…
The FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals have started using AI-generated voice deepfakes in phishing attacks impersonating senior U.S. officials. These attacks, involving smishing and vishing tactics, aim to compromise personal accounts and contacts for further...
Microsoft has stopped production of the Surface Laptop Studio 2 and will mark it as end-of-life in June, with no successor currently planned. Tom's Hardware reports: The Surface Laptop Studio 2 is being put out to pasture quietly, much like other devices that the company has ...
Entire process took less than five minutes, prosecutors say A former DoorDash driver has pleaded guilty to participating in a $2.59 million scheme that used fake accounts, insider access to reassign orders, and bogus delivery reports to trigger payouts for food that was...
At its second annual Upfront 2025 event yesterday, Netflix announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI. These new ad formats are expected to roll out in 2026. Ars Technica reports: '[Netflix] members pay as much...
TP-Link’s Omada brand has launched the EAP772-Outdoor, its first tri-band six-stream BE11000 Wi-Fi 7 outdoor access point. With support for 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands and omnidirectional coverage up to 3,200 square feet, this device is built for businesses that need...
AI agents will fundamentally change the value of content and the way people work with data and files, said Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, during a Wednesday webcast that was part of the company’s Content+AI Virtual Summit. The traditional approach to managing content is...
Failure could've triggered a small explosion NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago. …
Uno Platform 6.0, a major update to the open source tool kit for building cross-platform.NET applications from a single code base, introduces a new, unified rendering engine, called Skia, that gives developers a low-footprint, high-performance, hardware-accelerated option...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company's Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California...
Accessibility in the software world is a problem in general, but it’s an even bigger problem on open source desktops, as painfully highlighted by this excellent article detailing the utterly broken state of accessibility on Linux. Reading the article is soul-crushing as it...
Thursday May 15, 2025. 11:25 PM
According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Meta is delaying the release of its largest Llama 4 AI model, known as 'Behemoth,' over concerns that it may not be enough of an advance on previous models. 'It's another indicator that the AI industry's scaling strategy --...
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