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Economy
Apple’s Macs have long escaped ransomware, but that may be changing
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers are examining newly discovered Mac ransomware samples from the notorious gang LockBit, marking the…
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Economy
Adobe teases generative AI video tools
Enlarge / A demo of Firefly AI generation in Adobe Premiere. (credit: Adobe) On Monday, Adobe announced plans to add…
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State Department’s Human Rights Reports and Their Failures
Jordan Cohen In March 2023, the State Department released their annual “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.” While these reports…
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Economy
FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony
Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has “not enough interest…
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What Is a Fee to the CFPB? And Should Prices Change?
Nicholas Anthony I previously explained how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had effectively proposed restricting access to credit by…
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Economy
Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “self-improving robot.” (credit: Midjourney) Since the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4 API last month…
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Economy
“A really big deal”—Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model
Enlarge (credit: Databricks) On Wednesday, Databricks released Dolly 2.0, reportedly the first open source, instruction-following large language model (LLM) for…
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Economy
Generative AI comes to Amazon Web Services
Enlarge / An AI generated image of a “colorful data center.” (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, Amazon released a new suite…
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Why An Aging Population Might Not Doom The American Economy
Economics Why An Aging Population Might Not Doom The American Economy By Santul Nerkar Apr. 13, 2023, at 6:00 AM…
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Economy
Elon Musk reportedly purchases thousands of GPUs for generative AI project at Twitter
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “a cyborg Twitter bird logo composed of thousands of computer chips.” (credit: Midjourney) Despite…
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