Economy

April 23, 2024
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Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is…
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April 22, 2024
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Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted…
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April 19, 2024
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Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track

Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for “VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time.” (credit: Microsoft) On…
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April 18, 2024
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LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model…
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April 18, 2024
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LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Password-manager LastPass users were recently targeted by a convincing phishing campaign that used a combination of…
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April 18, 2024
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OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022

Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt “A painting by Grant Wood of an astronaut…
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April 17, 2024
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Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections

Enlarge (credit: da-kuk/Getty) Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation and…
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April 17, 2024
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Broadcom says “many” VMware perpetual licenses got support extensions

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publicized some concessions aimed at helping customers and partners ease into…
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April 16, 2024
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Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap

Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020. There has never been…
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April 16, 2024
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Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts

Enlarge (credit: Matejmo | Getty Images) Cisco’s Talos security team is warning of a large-scale credential compromise campaign that’s indiscriminately…
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