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Stone-hearted researchers gleefully push over adorable soccer-playing robots
Enlarge / In a still from a DeepMind demo video, a researcher pushes a small humanoid robot to the ground.…
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Seven months in, iOS and macOS get their first rapid security updates
Enlarge / Macs running macOS Ventura. (credit: Apple) When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura at its…
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Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely
Enlarge / Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute, speaks during The International Economic Forum of the Americas…
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Two core Unix-like utilities, sudo and su, are getting rewrites in Rust
Invoking another user’s privileges to execute a command. (credit: Cavan Images/Getty) Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern…
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Those scary warnings of juice jacking in airports and hotels? They’re nonsense
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Federal authorities, tech pundits, and news outlets want you to be on the…
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Sensitive data is being leaked from servers running Salesforce software
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and…
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Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a nuclear mushroom cloud. (credit: Midjourney) On Wednesday, US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and…
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Intel loses $2.8 billion in another not-great quarter, down 36% year over year
Enlarge / Intel’s flagship desktop CPU, the Core i9-13900K. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Intel has released its financial results for the…
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ChatGPT now allows disabling chat history, declining training, and exporting data
Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced new controls for ChatGPT users that allow them to turn…
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Exploit released for 9.8-severity PaperCut flaw already under attack
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Exploit code for a critical printer software vulnerability became publicly available on Monday in a release…
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