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Wednesday November 27, 2024. 08:05 PM
Vasco Pedro, CEO of the Lisbon-based startup Unbabel, delivered a provocative forecast at the Web Summit in Lisbon when he said human translators may no longer be needed within three years. The statement came in parallel with the launch of Widn.AI, Unbabel’s new AI-powered ...
SNL's famed 'More Cowbell' sketch is in the news because people need to remember something funny. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Two interesting pieces of news hit my feed today, both about one of Saturday Night Live's most famous sketches,...
AI privacy concerns are growing as artificial intelligence becomes more widespread, raising issues about how data is collected, used, and protected. While AI can increase efficiency and improve workflows, it also introduces risks such as data security and illegal use. Many...
For the past two or three weeks, upstart social network Bluesky has been attracting large numbers of new users every day, a crowd that quite evidently includes many Apple device users — the app has at times topped Apple’s App Store charts in the run-up to Thanksgiving...
An Australian police officer who tased a 95-year-old woman in May 2023 was convicted by a jury Monday of her manslaughter. Kristian White, 34, shot Clare Nowland in her care home in Cooma after the elderly woman 'roamed the facility' with a steak knife. — Read the rest The p...
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 recently found two security vulnerabilities in Google’s Vertex AI platform that may have exposed sensitive machine learning (ML) models to malicious attacks. Malicious actors could have used these vulnerabilities to exploit...
As Black Friday approaches, online shoppers face more than just deals this year—they’re also up against highly sophisticated AI-driven Black Friday scams. Cybersecurity provider McAfee reports that three in five Americans are more worried this year about holiday scams...
Version 8 of the Ubuntu-based elementary OS has been released. This release includes a rewritten Dock, new window-management features, improvements in the installation and initial setup procedures for visually impaired users, as well as a new Secure Session mode: In the...
In recent years the concept of Black Friday has spread beyond the US thanks to the web, such that millions around the world now go online at this time of year in search of bargains. But are the deals on offer really all they seem? A new report from Smartproxy suggests that...
TL;DR: Hop on this early Black Friday offer on the CARSULE pop-up tent that attaches to your car, now over 20% through December 1. Gift shopping for outdoor enthusiasts can be tricky, especially if you aren't looking to give another national park mug or hand warmer packs. — R...
AWS re:Invent, one the premier events in the cloud industry, serves as a platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new services, capabilities, and enhancements to its extensive portfolio. The 2024 event kicked off on Monday, December 2, with a live event in Las...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Christmas in Middle-Earth is the infectious musical brainchild of actor/musicians Brendan Dalton. A one-time Blue Man, Dalton used his free time during the height of pandemic life to compose an...
The U.S. military is planning to use an artificial intelligence-powered machine gun to fight back against the rising threat of drone attacks. Drones are inexpensive to produce but pose a lethal danger to troops stationed abroad. The precision focus of the gun—called “The ...
Ten years ago, essayist and programmer Paul Ford wrote The American Room about the distinctive environment of video-first social media. These off-white backdrops represented a lack of imagination or care—or, perhaps, it reflected an emerging reality of a declining middle...
For the most part, the 6.13 merge window has gone smoothly, with relatively few problems or disagreements — other than this one, of course. There is one other exception, though, relating to the kernel's presentation of a process's command line to interested user-space...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt pushed aside concerns over a possible artificial intelligence (AI) slowdown to say there’s “no evidence” AI scaling is decelerating—instead, he predicts huge improvements in AI models over the next five years could pose serious dangers if they ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (mpg123 and php8.2), Fedora (libsndfile, mingw-glib2, mingw-libsoup, mingw-python3, and qbittorrent), Oracle (pam:1.5.1 and perl-App-cpanminus), Red Hat (firefox, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (firefox,...
Cyber threats are becoming more complex and it can be difficult for defenders to see the big picture and make decisions accordingly. Now though help is at hand as ImmuniWeb is launching a free online tool making historical data on the security of internet-accessible...
Sure, iPods were cool, and totally changed the course of music history. But even before we were all shelling out hundreds of dollars to store our entire compressed music collections in our pockets, there was another, cheaper solution that did most of the work already: MP3...
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