A look at Truth Terminal, an AI bot on X that was created to spark debate about AI alignment, as its crypto wallet swells to ~$40M after boosting memecoins
Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to invite discussion about the applications and potential dangers of autonomous AI agents.
A profile of White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who has crafted a strategy to stop China from unseating the US as the world's tech superpower
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How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors used generative AI to write without disclosure
DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis details Gemini, an upcoming ChatGPT rival meant to combine the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems and those of LLMs
A study of several EU countries finds the 2010s deep learning boom created job opportunities but says “these results may not be extrapolated into the future”
ChatGPT is stoking fears of mass layoffs, but a study of several EU countries found the deep-learning boom of the 2010s actually created job opportunities.
Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others
Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks. But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work.
Sources: Russia's GRU hacking unit Sandworm is led by Evgenii Serebriakov, who was indicted for a 2018 close-range cyberespionage operation in the Netherlands
Thursday, March 16, 2023 // (IG): BB // Cyber-Roundup// Coffee for Bob LinkedIn: David Mauro : For those following cyber crime and cyber warfare, Andy Greenberg details a phenomena...
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
New data-sharing proposals in Europe push for the expansion of facial recognition and to allow police forces across the EU to link their photo databases
Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people's faces.
As China's delivery startups use algorithms to force drivers to work faster, couriers are gaming the system and forming unofficial unions on WeChat and Douyin
Masha Borak / Wired : Tweets: @wiredscience and @wired Tweets: @wiredscience : Food delivery drivers are using platforms' data-powered systems, mass WeChat groups, and unofficial ...
Russia's FSB says it detained and charged REvil ransomware gang members at the request of the US; source: Russian citizens won't be handed over to the US
Russia's FSB security service conducted a special operation against ransomware crime group REvil at the request of the United States …
Four former executives of Nexa Technologies, an alleged supplier of surveillance tech to Libya and Egypt, were indicted for complicity in torture and war crimes
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Hart InterCivic, a major election tech vendor, says it will use Microsoft's voting software ElectionGuard in one of its systems as part of a pilot program
Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label
Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label
Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.
Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label
Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.
A Microsoft-led team of physicists retracts a widely-read 2018 paper on quantum computing, touted as a breakthrough, saying evidence was selectively presented
CISA's Einstein, which cost billions and monitors US agencies' networks for bad actors, missed the SolarWinds hack, which now counts the NIH among its victims
When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring …
Interviews with sources and a review of talent management contracts for game streamers show rampant exploitation in the streaming management industry
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