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A team at the University of Chicago created Nightshade to protect ideas and content.

A Volvo electric test truck has now been driven nearly 1,000 km a day for two years, reaching a total distance of 500,000 km on the road.

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission....

AI has the potential to run our lives. We shouldn't let it.

YouTube automated AI could create professional videos in any niche, from any blog post/article.

Eight unnamed individuals sued Google in San Francisco in July for supposedly misusing content posted to social media and information shared on Google platforms to train its systems....

One is fatally hacked, the other shut down in international police dragnet.

Thiel began providing information as a “confidential human source,” or CHS, to Johnathan Buma, a Los Angeles-based FBI agent who specializes in investigating political corruption and foreign-influence campaigns, a report says....

Scientists used six to 10 seconds of people’s voice, along with basic health data, including age, sex, height, and weight, to create an AI model.

Mastodon audiences will be able to interact with blog posts.

Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they weathered the largest-known denial of service attack and are sounding the alarm over a new technique they warn could easily cause widespread disruption.

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Here is the study (pdf, 16 pages): www.usenix.org/…/usenixsecurity23-ceccio.pdf...

References to subscription 'edition,' 'type,' and 'status' found in a test build of Windows.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has warned around 6,800 current and former employees that their personal data was accessed via a data breach.

Untruths spouted by chatbots ended up on the web—and Microsoft's Bing search engine served them up as facts. Generative AI could make search harder to trust.

AnitaB.org's annual Grace Hopper conference is open to all people, but its career fair is specifically set aside for women and non-binary attendees.

It seems that space has become the playground of big tech billionaires. It seems that only Jeff Bezos can bring SpaceX owner Musk down from his cloud. “Amazon has enormous potential. And, in the end, the great competition comes down to the two magnates,” observes Stephane Terranova, the CEO of Thales Alenia Space in Spain....

Russia's communications watchdog plans to block Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from March 1 next year, a Russian senator for the ruling United Russia party said on Tuesday.

Who knows what future discoveries we will ultimately have to credit to a machine?

Solar parks and agriculture do not have to be placed on separate fields. It is possible to combine both functions on the same field, researchers from Wageningen University & Research and Renergize Consultancy write in their position paper "Producing food and electricity on the same square meter." Researchers see a future for...

Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is the government’s biggest-name witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google.

Worldcoin, under scrutiny for purportedly mining data from Kenyans by scanning their irises in exchange for cryptocurrency tokens, operated in 30 locations across Nairobi, including malls and learning institutions, starting May 2021.