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Dissolving circuit boards in water sounds better than shredding and burning
Enlarge / 30 minutes in near-boiling water, and those soldered chips come right off, leaving you with something that’s non-toxic,…
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Arizona law school embraces ChatGPT use in student applications
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Arizona State University) On Friday, Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law announced…
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Google’s RT-2 AI model brings us one step closer to WALL-E
Enlarge / A Google robot controlled by RT-2. (credit: Google) On Friday, Google DeepMind announced Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a…
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Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers have unearthed a rare malware find: malicious Android apps that use optical character recognition…
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Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Meta’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is looking for ways to keep users interested after…
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Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion XL, its next-gen image synthesis model
Enlarge / Several examples of images generated using Stable Diffusion XL 1.0. (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Wednesday, Stability AI released…
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US senator blasts Microsoft for “negligent cybersecurity practices”
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A US senator is calling on the Justice Department to hold Microsoft responsible for “negligent cybersecurity…
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OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a slot machine in a desert. (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, OpenAI quietly pulled its…
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Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It has been a tough year for PC companies and companies that make PC components. Companies…
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Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris Delmas) Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter as “X” wouldn’t be complete without a…
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