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GPT Can Help Chat Doctors—and Hurt Patients Robert Pearl, a former CEO of Kaiser Permanente and professor at Stanford medical school, believes that ChatGPT, a form of generative AI, is more important to doctors than the stethoscope. He knows of doctors using the bot to summarize patient care, write letters, and even diagnose patients. Companies…

AI Won’t Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon AI typography experiments are sacrificing readability and accessibility in a misguided attempt to innovate. These experiments may be interesting, but they are not effective. AI should be used to assist typographers and make their work more accessible, rather than trying to supplant them. The digital revolution has already…

Create generative AI videos from your phone with Runway’s iOS app Runway, an AI startup, has launched a mobile app on iOS which uses their video-to-video generative AI model, Gen-1. Users can transform existing videos based on text, image, or video input, creating entirely new videos. Outputs are often strange, and the app has certain…

Google Authenticator Adds Account Syncing for Two-Factor Codes Google Authenticator has now added the ability to sync two-factor authentication codes to a user’s Google account, so that when a new device is set up and logged into, Authenticator will be ready to go. This makes it easier to access accounts in the event of a…

Apple’s App Store can stay closed but developers can link to outside payments, A federal court has ruled in Apple’s favor for nine of the ten claims in a case, reaffirming Apple’s victory. The App Store continues to promote competition, drive innovation, and expand opportunities for users and developers. Apple is considering further review for…

Is It the Patches? This AI Approach Analyzes the Key Contributor to the Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the standard for computer vision tasks for years, but a new architecture called the Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently outperformed them, especially for large data sets. ConvMixer is a convolutional architecture designed to analyze the performance…

Stanford Researchers Introduce Gisting: A Technique for Efficient Prompt Compression in Model specialization is a technique for adapting pre-trained machine-learning models to specific tasks. Prompting is a key concept in this field, as it allows for more efficient use of limited training data and is crucial for achieving high performance. The paper presented by Stanford…

CISA Adds 3 Flaws to KEV Catalog, including Critical PaperCut Bug CISA has added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These include a MinIO Information Disclosure Vulnerability, a PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Vulnerability, and a Google Chrome Skia Integer Overflow Vulnerability. Threat actors have…

Lazarus X_TRADER Breach Impacts Critical Infrastructure Beyond 3CX Lazarus, a North Korean hacking group, has been found to have breached two critical infrastructure organizations in the power and energy sector and two other businesses involved in financial trading using a trojanized X_TRADER application. This attack is linked to the one targeting 3CX last month, and…

The unlikely connection between cyborgs and cherries: this AI approach uses reinforcement learning Robots are becoming increasingly common in our daily lives, from automated vacuum cleaners to drones delivering packages. As technology advances, they are starting to do tasks that were once limited to humans, such as picking a cherry from a tree. It is…