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Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it means
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) One of the biggest advances in web security over the last decade or…
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AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
Enlarge / A still image from “Synthetic Summer,” an AI-generated beer commercial. (credit: Privateisland.tv) While many fear a future where…
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Report: Microsoft plans privacy-first ChatGPT for businesses with secrets to keep
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) Microsoft is planning to offer a privacy-focused version of the ChatGPT chatbot to…
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IBM plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI, pauses hiring certain positions
Enlarge / The IBM logo in front of an AI-generated background. (credit: IBM / Midjourney) IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind…
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T-Mobile discloses 2nd data breach of 2023, this one leaking account PINs and more
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) T-Mobile on Monday said it experienced a hack that exposed account PINs and other…
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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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