reader comments 121 with 0 posters participating Share this story We tested iDrive with its free Basic tier, which offers 10GB of storage. Jim Salter Carbonite is probably the most well-known cloud backup service, thanks to a years-long advertising blitz. It offers “unlimited” backup storage for a single PC. Jim Salter We’d never heard of… Read More »
Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story More than once this year, AI experts have… Read More »
Enlarge / This is John. He doesn’t exist. But AI can easily put a photo of him in any situation we want. And the same process can apply to real people with just a few real photos pulled from social media. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 103 with 0 posters participating Share this… Read More »
Enlarge / Benj Edwards’ computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. reader comments 117 with 0 posters participating Share this story Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, working from my dad’s Tandy 1800HD laptop and a 2400 baud modem. The… Read More »
Enlarge / Horizontal boring equipment installing fiber in Los Altos Hills, California. Los Altos Hills Community Fiber reader comments 45 with 0 posters participating Share this story Our recent article about Silicon Valley residents who formed a co-op Internet service provider might have people wondering what it would take to get the same thing in… Read More »
Enlarge / People look inside an Orion spacecraft simulator, which is used to train for docking to the Gateway space station, at the Johnson Space Center’s System Engineering Simulator facility in Houston. Getty Images reader comments 24 with 0 posters participating Share this story Wednesday’s scheduled launch by NASA of the Artemis I mission will… Read More »
Enlarge / Microsoft’s Windows Dev Kit 2023 is meant to get the Arm version of Windows into the hands of more developers. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 75 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has released two new systems based on Qualcomm’s Arm processors lately. The first, a 5G version of the Surface Pro… Read More »
Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story A small retail business in North Africa, a North American telecommunications provider, and two separate religious organizations: What do they have in common? They’re all running poorly configured Microsoft servers that for months or years have been spraying the Internet with… Read More »
Enlarge / Fiber conduits being installed for Los Altos Hills Community Fiber. Los Altos Hills Community Fiber reader comments 173 with 105 posters participating, including story author Share this story Sasha Zbrozek lives in Los Altos Hills, California, which he describes as “a wealthy Silicon Valley town,” in a house about five miles from Google’s… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 22 with 19 posters participating, including story author Share this story For almost two years, Microsoft officials botched a key Windows defense, an unexplained lapse that left customers open to a malware infection technique that has been especially effective in recent months. Microsoft officials have steadfastly asserted that Windows Update will… Read More »