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Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows?
How can you argue against these numbers? (credit: 20th Century Fox / Aurich Lawson) According to one measurement by one…
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Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks via video link at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in…
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Hackers exploit gaping Windows loophole to give their malware kernel access
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers are using open source software that’s popular with video game cheaters to allow their Windows-based…
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New ChatGPT rival, Claude 2, launches for open beta testing
Enlarge (credit: Anthropic) On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude 2, a large language model (LLM) similar to ChatGPT that can craft…
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Judge sides with Microsoft in FTC injunction, unlocking final Activision battles
Enlarge / Attorneys carrying boxes arrive to court in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. A judge…
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OpenAI launches GPT-4 API for everyone
Enlarge (credit: OpenAI) On Thursday, OpenAI announced that all paying API customers now have access to the GPT-4 API. It…
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Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists”
Enlarge / Comedian and author Sarah Silverman. (credit: Jason Kempin / Staff | Getty Images North America) On Friday, the…
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How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)
Enlarge (credit: AHMET YARALI/Getty) Meta’s long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it’s called Threads. The new social media app launches…
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MOVEit app mass-exploited last month patches new critical vulnerability
Enlarge (credit: Lino Mirgeler/picture alliance via Getty Images) MOVEit, the file-transfer software exploited in recent weeks in one of the…
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Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking
Enlarge The maintainers of the open-source software that powers the Mastodon social network published a security update on Thursday that…
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