This is a very dishonest argument. They aren’t “seizing the sum total of human knowledge”. They aren’t “walling it off inside proprietary products”. All that data they used to train their models is still right where it was before, just as available to the world as it was before. They Read more…
Snapchat, “influencer” Caryn Marjorie created a virtual version of herself “powered by the latest artificial intelligence technology and thousands of hours of recordings of the real Marjorie,” reports Fortune. It’s the work of Forever Voices (which also offers pay-by-the-minute conversations with its voice-mimicking chatbot versions of Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift Read more…
Three companies “supplied millions of fake public comments to influence a 2017 proceeding by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal net neutrality rules,” announced New York’s attorney general this week. Their investigation “found that the fake comments used the identities of millions of consumers, including thousands of New Yorkers, Read more…
AWS offered A Look Inside the Making of an NFL Football Schedule in conjunction with Thursday’s release of the 2023 NFL Schedule Powered by AWS. AWS notes that producing the schedule required the use of 4,000+ AWS EC2 Spot Instances. An AWS promotional video claims they “saved the NFL an Read more…
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix a Secure Boot bypass bug used by the BlackLotus bootkit we reported on in March. The original vulnerability, CVE-2022-21894, was patched in January, but the new patch for CVE-2023-24932 addresses another actively exploited workaround for systems running Windows 10 and 11 Read more…
The EU is planning an undersea internet cable to improve connectivity to Georgia and reduce dependence on lines running through Russia, amid growing concerns about vulnerabilities to infrastructure transmitting global data. The $49mn cable will link EU member states to the Caucasus via international waters in the Black Sea, stretching Read more…
Robinhood announced Wednesday that it will soon allow users to engage in 24-hour trading of select exchange-traded funds and stocks. As Fortune notes, this “will make it the first U.S. brokerage to provide overnight weekday trading in individual stocks.” The 24-hour trading service will allow round-the-clock trading in 43 securities Read more…