Category: Shorts

Congress loves Big Tech — but it still seems optimistic about AI Instead of focusing on past mistakes, senators seemed eager to look forward to the benefits that could result from AI tech. Instead of an agency to regulate AI, they discussed the most, but lawmakers ran other ideas past Altman like making AI companies…

CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Edited Them CNET’s staff and screenwriters are represented by the Writers Guild of America, and they want studios to agree to prohibit AI authorship and to never ask writers to adapt AI-generated scripts. The tool that editors used also appeared to have plagiarized work from competing news outlets,…

Does Bard know how many ‘e’ letters appear in ‘ketchup’? Here’s an experiment: Instead of trying to understand mayonnaise, I’ll try to understand language using Google’s Bard. First off, this is a silly experiment. Second, we don’t know how smart we are and how we think. Machine learning is awesome because it illustrates that engineers…

The Amazon executive in charge of Astro robot is moving on from the company Astro hasn’t yet become available for purchase, and now the executive who was responsible for its development has left the company. That executive, Ken Washington, Amazon’s VP of consumer robotics, is leaving the company to seek an external opportunity. According to…

Apple Maps and Music now include features for finding concerts. Apple today begins rolling out new concert discovery features to its Maps and Music apps that should make it easier to find local shows. On Apple Music, the company has added a section dedicated to concerts with set lists of upcoming shows across the country.…

Google might delete your Gmail account if you haven’t logged in for a while As of this writing, 9to5Google has learned that Gmail addresses will not be made available for reuse. According to Google, account activity is measured based on actions like reading or sending an email, watching a YouTube video, downloading an app on…

China’s Mustang Panda hackers exploit TP-Link routers for persistent attacks The Chinese nation-state actor known as Mustang Panda has been linked to a new set of sophisticated and targeted attacks aimed at European foreign affairs entities since January 2023. An analysis of these intrusions, per Check Point researchers Itay Cohen and Radoslaw Madej, has revealed…

AutoNeRF: An AI Approach Designed to Use Autonomous Agents to Generate Impl AutoNeRF enables autonomous drones and robots to collect data required for training neural implicit representations of a scene. During the Exploration Policy Training phase, an exploration policy is trained using intrinsic rewards in a set of training environments. One of the key advantages…

Bing Chat Gets Deeper Edge Mobile Integration, a Widget, and Much More Just days after Google rebranded its AI tools for Docs and Gmail as Duet AI, Microsoft is now focused on mobile with contextual chat for Edge mobile, a Bing widget for iOS and Android, and even continuous Bing Chat conversations between mobile and…

Inside Qilin Ransomware: 85% of Ransom Payouts Go to Ransomware affiliates that engage in the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme earn between 80% and 85% of the ransom payments, according to new findings from cybersecurity firm Group-IB. The company’s analysis reveals that the ransomware uses a variety of tactics to personalize its attacks to each victim.…