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The “Windows App” for Mac, iOS, and browsers is a fancy remote desktop, for now
Enlarge / If you have a bunch of Windows systems, Microsoft now has an app for that. It’s called “Windows…
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From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
Enlarge / A composite of three DALL-E 3 AI art generations: an oil painting of Hercules fighting a shark, a…
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Developers can’t seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code
Enlarge (credit: Victor De Schwanberg/Science Photo Library via Getty Images) Despite more than a decade of reminding, prodding, and downright…
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Holy chips! Microsoft’s new AI silicon will power its chatty assistants
Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by…
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Bing Chat is now “Microsoft Copilot” in potentially confusing rebranding move
Enlarge / The Microsoft Copilot logo. (credit: Microsoft) On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat—its famously once-unhinged AI chatbot—has been…
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YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, YouTube announced it will soon implement stricter measures on realistic AI-generated content hosted by…
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People think white AI-generated faces are more real than actual photos, study says
Enlarge / Eight images used in the study; four of them are synthetic. Can you tell which ones? (Answers at…
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Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes “very strange behavior”
Enlarge Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously…
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AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study
Enlarge / A file photo of Tropical Storm Fiona as seen in a satellite image from 2022. (credit: Getty Images)…
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Teens with “digital bazookas” are winning the ransomware war, researcher laments
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) What do Boeing, an Australian shipping company, the world’s largest bank, and one of the world’s…
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