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Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough
While tech companies market AI as a productivity tool for everyone, a UK government study reveals an unexpected result: Neurodiverse…
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Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack
Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely…
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Former WhatsApp security boss sues Meta for “systemic cybersecurity failures”
Over the past year, Meta has blanketed TV screens around the world with commercials touting the privacy of Whatsapp, its…
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AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says
In five years, you won’t be able to spell IT without AI, Gartner predicted today. VP analysts Alicia Mullery and…
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ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people
On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder…
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The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.
Wednesday’s discovery of three mis-issued TLS certificates for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 encrypted DNS lookup service generated intense interest and concern among…
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Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered…
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New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats
On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, allowing…
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Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet
People in Internet security circles are sounding the alarm over the issuance of three TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1, a widely…
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OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its…
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