Economy

January 24, 2024
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Google’s latest AI video generator renders implausible situations for cute animals

Enlarge / Still images of AI-generated video examples provided by Google for its Lumiere video synthesis model. (credit: Google) On…
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January 24, 2024
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AI-generated puffy pontiff image inspires new warning from Pope Francis

Enlarge / A cropped portion of an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a puffy coat that went viral in…
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January 24, 2024
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Mass exploitation of Ivanti VPNs is infecting networks around the globe

Enlarge / Cybercriminals or anonymous hackers use malware on mobile phones to hack personal and business passwords online. (credit: Getty…
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January 23, 2024
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A “robot” should be chemical, not steel, argues man who coined the word

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word “robot” in a…
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January 23, 2024
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OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware

Enlarge / Failing an image of the proposed reference hardware by the OpenWrt group, let us gaze upon where this…
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January 23, 2024
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Ambient light sensors can reveal your device activity. How big a threat is it?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An overwhelming majority of handheld devices these days have ambient light sensors built into them. A…
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January 20, 2024
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Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Russia-state hackers exploited a weak password to compromise Microsoft’s corporate network and accessed emails and documents…
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January 19, 2024
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Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list

Enlarge / A portion of the cover letter attached to Hans Reiser’s response to Fredrick Brennan’s prompt about his filesystem’s…
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January 19, 2024
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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Enlarge / A photo of David L. Mills taken by David Woolley on April 27, 2005. (credit: David Woolley /…
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January 19, 2024
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$40 billion worth of crypto crime enabled by stablecoins since 2022

Enlarge (credit: Anjali Nair; Getty Images) Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies pegged to a stable value like the US dollar, were created with…
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