The Secrets of the US Spyware King
Rather than see Paragon’s lack of access to logs as an accountability problem, however, Boyd describes it as a selling point: No one would buy their products if the company could see a customer’s sensitive…
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OpenAI takes on Microsoft and Google with office productivity push
ChatGPT collaborative slides are “coming soon,” OpenAI announced at its DevDay event Tuesday.
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face. “OpenAI’s actions straightforwardly violated California law,” the…
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
After October 2023, delay times at checkpoints across Nablus spiked to levels beyond anywhere else in the West Bank. Commuters in Nablus spent an average of nearly an hour and 50 minutes avoiding checkpoints. Ali…
Your guide to Google Messages’ new hidden gestures
Google Messages’ new text long-press menu on Android — never more than a press away.A reply lets you quote an earlier message in a conversation for context.The Messages conversation info screen is a convenient place…
Researchers Borrow Chipmaking Technology To Build Better EV Batteries
A nanoscale copper architecture gives lithium more room to spread during charging, reducing the conditions that promote damaging dendrites. Concept illustration (AI-generated). Credit: KAIST Researchers used nanoscale manufacturing techniques from the semiconductor industry to design…
Tiny Diamond Beams Could Unlock More Powerful Quantum Networks
Conceptual illustration of an integrated quantum photonic circuit in which diamond nanobeams containing quantum emitters and spins are embedded within integrated photonic devices. Credit: Shuo Sun et al. Building a circuit around a tiny diamond…
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
OpenAI said it has paused training its most powerful artificial intelligence models as incidents of agents breaching websites’ security controls or posting to third-party sites continue to pile up. On Friday, OpenAI said it had…
A Diamond Smaller Than a Grain of Rice Could Transform Heart Monitoring
Diamond defects known as nitrogen-vacancy centers could eventually help clinicians measure magnetic signals from the heart, brain, and nerves without bulky cryogenic equipment. Credit: Shutterstock A new generation of quantum sensors could improve medical diagnostics….
Meta to develop, use its in-house data centre AI-chips this year, AI tools to cost over $30 billion annually
Meta will develop its own custom AI chip and deploy them at their local data centres to power their AI tools. All of this, including the development and deployment of these new AI tolls could…