Economy

February 1, 2023
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ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base in history, report says

Enlarge / A realistic artist’s depiction of an encounter with ChatGPT Plus. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica / OpenAI)…
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February 1, 2023
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Up to 29,000 unpatched QNAP storage devices are sitting ducks to ransomware

As many as 29,000 network storage devices manufactured by Taiwan-based QNAP are vulnerable to hacks that are easy to carry…
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February 1, 2023
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Netflix stirs fears by using AI-assisted background art in short anime film

Enlarge / A still image from the short film Dog and Boy,, which uses image synthesis to help generate background…
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February 1, 2023
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New data illustrates time’s effect on hard drive failure rates

Enlarge (credit: Getty) SSDs have usurped hard disk drives (HDDs) when it comes to performance, but whether building a network-attached…
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February 1, 2023
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Paper: Stable Diffusion “memorizes” some images, sparking privacy concerns

Enlarge / An image from Stable Diffusion’s training set compared (left) to a similar Stable Diffusion generation (right) when prompted…
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February 1, 2023
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Pig-butchering scam apps sneak into Apple’s App Store and Google Play

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) In the past year, a new term has arisen to describe an online…
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January 30, 2023
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GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository

Enlarge GitHub said unknown intruders gained unauthorized access to some of its code repositories and stole code-signing certificates for two…
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January 30, 2023
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MusicLM: Google AI generates music in various genres at 24 kHz

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an exploding ball of music. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, researchers from Google announced…
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January 30, 2023
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Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors

Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside…
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January 28, 2023
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Most criminal cryptocurrency is funneled through just 5 exchanges

Enlarge (credit: Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images) For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware, and…
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