Economy

November 23, 2024
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Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door

One of 2024’s coolest hacking tales occurred two years ago, but it wasn’t revealed to the public until Friday at…
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November 22, 2024
48

Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival

On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its total…
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November 21, 2024
38

5 charged in “Scattered Spider,” one of the most profitable phishing scams ever

Federal prosecutors have charged five men with running an extensive phishing scheme that allegedly allowed them to compromise hundreds of…
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November 20, 2024
25

Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“

“Updating our site reputation abuse policy” is how Google, in almost wondrously opaque fashion, announced yesterday that big changes have…
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November 19, 2024
31

A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is “sold out” in parts of US

The Starlink waitlist is back in certain parts of the US, including several large cities on the West Coast and…
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November 19, 2024
28

Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system

Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from players…
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November 18, 2024
30

AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says

Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI’s role in filmmaking during the 2024 CNBC Delivering…
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November 14, 2024
27

ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher

In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbreaking research paper called Attention Is All You Need, which introduced…
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November 13, 2024
31

IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware

There’s a general consensus that we won’t be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected…
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November 12, 2024
41

New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike

On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI…
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