Economy

November 27, 2023
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New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image

Enlarge / Still examples of images animated using Stable Video Diffusion by Stability AI. (credit: Stability AI) On Tuesday, Stability…
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November 27, 2023
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Amazon’s $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes

Enlarge / A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Client setup. (credit: Jeff Barr/Amazon)…
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November 22, 2023
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Thousands of routers and cameras vulnerable to new 0-day attacks by hostile botnet

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video…
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November 22, 2023
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USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A group of Russian-state hackers known for almost exclusively targeting Ukranian entities has branched out in…
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November 21, 2023
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95% of OpenAI employees have threatened to quit in standoff with board

Enlarge (credit: FT montage) The future of OpenAI remained uncertain on Tuesday after extraordinary efforts by employees and investors to…
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November 20, 2023
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OpenAI employees revolt after board names new CEO and Altman heads to Microsoft

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) After two days of roller-coaster negotiations at OpenAI HQ due to the surprise ouster of CEO…
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November 19, 2023
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OpenAI board attempts to hit “Ctrl-Z” in talks with Altman to return as CEO

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco. (credit:…
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November 18, 2023
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The FCC says new rules will curb SIM swapping. I’m pessimistic

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Panuwat Sikham) After years of inaction, the FCC this week said that it’s finally going…
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November 18, 2023
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Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Chief Scientist, speaks at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. (credit: Getty Images) On…
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November 18, 2023
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman quits as nervous employees hold all-hands meeting

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Ars Technica) On Friday afternoon, not long after news of CEO Sam Altman’s abrupt and surprising…
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