reader comments 15 with 0 posters participating Share this story Big Tech companies are aggressively pursuing investments and alliances with artificial intelligence startups through their cloud computing arms, raising regulatory questions over their role as both suppliers and competitors in the battle to develop “generative AI.” Google’s recent $300 million bet on San Francisco-based Anthropic… Read More »
Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images reader comments 38 with 0 posters participating Share this story For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware, and money laundering—despite the strange fact that in that economy, practically every transaction is written into a blockchain’s permanent, unchangeable ledger. But new evidence suggests that years of… Read More »
Enlarge / A computer-generated gavel hovers over a laptop. reader comments 130 with 0 posters participating Share this story Some artists have begun waging a legal fight against the alleged theft of billions of copyrighted images used to train AI art generators and reproduce unique styles without compensating artists or asking for consent. A group… Read More »
Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not working, with no update or outreach from Twitter. Nathan Coppen/Getty Images reader comments 134 with 0 posters participating Share this story Tweetbot, Twiterrific, Echofon, and other third-party Twitter clients have failed to work for many… Read More »
Enlarge / Travelers wait in a terminal at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during an FAA outage that grounded flights across the US on January 11, 2023. Getty Images | Saul Loeb reader comments 77 with 0 posters participating Share this story A Notice to Air Missions system outage that grounded flights across the… Read More »
James Marshall/Getty Images reader comments 169 with 0 posters participating Share this story Last month, a young woman went to work at Sarzamineh Shadi, or Land of Happiness, an indoor amusement park east of Iran’s capital, Tehran. After a photo of her without a hijab circulated on social media, the amusement park was closed, according… Read More »
Enlarge / Tech companies, including Apple, have lobbied hard to prevent a New York bill that would require them to make repair information and parts available to individuals and non-affiliated repair techs. Getty Images reader comments 61 with 0 posters participating Share this story Update 10:30pm 12/19/2022: Because of a misinterpretation of NY legislature rules,… Read More »
reader comments 5 with 0 posters participating Share this story It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain consisting of producers, wholesalers, and consumers. But this supply… 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 »
Financial Times reader comments 26 with 0 posters participating Share this story Created by a Vietnamese gaming studio, Axie Infinity offers players the chance to breed, trade, and fight Pokémon-like cartoon monsters to earn cryptocurrencies including the game’s own “Smooth Love Potion” digital token. At one stage, it had more than a million active players.… Read More »