Economy

September 6, 2022
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With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again

Enlarge / Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a cowboy? Stable Diffusion does. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion)…
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September 1, 2022
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Actors behind PyPI supply chain attack have been active since late 2021

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The official software repository for the Python language, Python Package Index (PyPI), has been targeted in…
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September 1, 2022
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US restricts sales of high-end Nvidia AI chips to China and Russia

Enlarge / The Nvidia logo superimposed over China’s flag. (credit: Benj Edwards / Nvidia) In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing…
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September 1, 2022
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Microsoft finds TikTok vulnerability that allowed one-click account compromises

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said on Wednesday that it recently identified a vulnerability in TikTok’s Android app that could…
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August 31, 2022
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FCC has approved $6 billion in broadband grants despite rejecting Starlink

Enlarge Several US government agencies are having a busy week for doling out broadband deployment funding to ISPs and state…
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August 31, 2022
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AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans

Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D’opéra Spatial. (credit: Jason Allen) A synthetic media artist named Jason Allen entered AI-generated…
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August 31, 2022
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Chrome extensions with 1.4M installs covertly track visits and inject code

(credit: Chrome) Google has removed browser extensions with more than 1.4 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store after third-party…
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August 31, 2022
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Microsoft EU cloud revisions just so happen to exclude Google, Amazon

Enlarge / Microsoft says its latest cloud licensing terms are meant to give customers more flexibility and cost control—just not…
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August 31, 2022
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Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) Japan’s newly appointed Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, has declared war on…
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August 30, 2022
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Organizations are spending billions on malware defense that’s easy to bypass

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Aurich Lawson) Last year, organizations spent $2 billion on products that provide Endpoint Detection and…
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