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Thursday August 15, 2024. 03:25 AM
Ars Technica's Ashley Belanger reports: Artists defending a class-action lawsuit are claiming a major win this week in their fight to stop the most sophisticated AI image generators from copying billions of artworks to train AI models and replicate their styles without...
TechCrunch's Lauren Forristal reports: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Wednesday a final rule that will tackle several types of fake reviews and prohibit marketers from using deceptive practices, such as AI-generated reviews, censoring honest negative...
Thesps at least get final say on what their doppelgängers will say AI-generated voices in ads might become more common thanks to an agreement between SAG-AFTRA and an AI cloning upstart.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company's Jared Newman: With its new Pixel 9 phones, Google Assistant is getting a demotion. In its place, Google's will ship Gemini as the default voice assistant on its flagship phones. Gemini uses large language models to...
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, an update to the flagship IDE that brings enhancements to code reviews and to the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant. The company also unveiled Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview 1, the first preview of the planned next...
Git blame an infrastructure update If you can't or couldn't access GitHub today, it's because the site broke itself.…
Paramount Global will lay off 15% of its U.S. workforce, close Paramount Television Studios, and transfer its projects to CBS Studios as part of a massive restructuring plan. According to Reuters, the media company 'aims to reduce annual costs by $500 million and return to...
As a deadlier strain of the mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, spreads across Africa, the World Health Organization has declared the situation to be a 'public health emergency of international concern.' The outbreak, which includes the more aggressive strain called...
In a regulatory filing on Tuesday, Intel revealed it has sold its entire stake in Arm Holdings, generating an estimated $147 million. 'The company also sold its stake in ZeroFox, a cybersecurity company, and reduced stake in Astera Labs, a developer of connectivity platforms ...
While a US judge ruled last week that Google is a monopoly, and hat it has abused its monopoly position, potential remedies were not part of the case up until this point. Now, though, the US Department of Justice is mulling over potential remedies, and it seems everything is ...
No wonder JD Vance is friends with so many incel influencers. Like them, he's pants-wettingly scared of women. We already kind of knew that when he professed his fear of the childless cat-women cabal who were secretly running the country. But if you need any more proof that...
APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump’s and Biden’s campaigns this spring, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
Way back, Valve had the intention of making gaming on Linux a reality by allowing anyone to make PCs running SteamOS, with the goal of making Steam less dependent on the whims of Windows. This effort failed and fizzled out, but the idea clearly never died inside Valve,...
Wally Amos, aka Famous Amos, has died at at age 88 at his home in Hawaii. Amos launched the company in 1975 with a $25,000 loan and, in a bold move, opened his own shops to sell them. From the New York Times: At a time when flavorless, preservative-packed cookies were about ...
Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has recently illuminated the ongoing cyber espionage activities of APT42, an Iranian government-backed group linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. This cyber collective has intensified its phishing campaigns against...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called 'The AI Scientist' that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar to what powers...
Wednesday August 14, 2024. 11:46 PM
At r/movies, CanApprehensive8720 posed the following query: 'My boyfriend has watched almost every single horror movie in existence, I want to wow him with a spooky. What's your incredibly niche but terrifying watch?' As of now, the thread has more than 1,700 comments. —...
Here's a minute of Trump rambling in Asheville, N.C., today, with all his favorite filler phrases and the new lisp. His delivery was described online today as 'word salad'—an insult to salads, which are good for you. ...
Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office A shuttered IRS office focused on retiring and replacing legacy technology should be reopened, an audit has concluded, so that the US tax collection agency can get a firm grip on replacing its aging...
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