On Thursday, OpenAI released an early Windows version of its first ChatGPT app for Windows, following a Mac version that launched in May. Currently, it’s only available to subscribers of Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu versions of ChatGPT, and users can download it for free in the Microsoft Store for Windows. OpenAI is positioning the… Read More »
Broken down that way, the migration didn’t look terribly scary—and it’s made easier by the fact that the Kea default config files come filled with descriptive comments and configuration examples to crib from. (And, again, ISC has done an outstanding job with the docs for Kea. All versions, from deprecated to bleeding-edge, have thorough and… Read More »
Video scraping is just one of many new tricks possible when the latest large language models (LLMs), such as Google’s Gemini and GPT-4o, are actually “multimodal” models, allowing audio, video, image, and text input. These models translate any multimedia input into tokens (chunks of data), which they use to make predictions about which tokens should… Read More »
Federal authorities have charged two Sudanese nationals with running an operation that performed tens of thousands of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against some of the world’s biggest technology companies, as well as critical infrastructure and government agencies. The service, branded as Anonymous Sudan, directed powerful and sustained DDoSes against Big Tech companies, including… Read More »
The design is meant to run at high temperatures and extract heat from the reactor using helium, which is used to boil water and generate electricity. Each reactor can produce 80 megawatts of electricity, and the reactors are designed to work efficiently as a set of four, creating a 320 MW power plant. As of… Read More »
The police operation resulted in the seizure of computers, mobile phones, and about $25,756 in suspected proceeds and luxury watches from the syndicate’s headquarters. Police said that victims originated from multiple countries, including Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, India, and Singapore. A widening real-time deepfake problem Realtime deepfakes have become a growing problem over the… Read More »
Credit: haxrob Credit: haxrob The malware resides in the userspace portion of the interbank switch connecting the issuing domain and the acquiring domain. When a compromised card is used to make a fraudulent translation, FASTCash tampers with the messages the switch receives from issuers before relaying it back to the merchant bank. As a result,… Read More »
As for actual speeds in 2024, Starlink’s website says “users typically experience download speeds between 25 and 220Mbps, with a majority of users experiencing speeds over 100Mbps. Upload speeds are typically between 5 and 20Mbps. Latency ranges between 25 and 60 ms on land, and 100+ ms in certain remote locations.” Changing satellite elevation angles… Read More »
Google isn’t alone in eyeballing nuclear power as an energy source for massive datacenters. In September, Ars reported on a plan from Microsoft that would re-open the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania to fulfill some of its power needs. And the US administration is getting into the nuclear act as well, signing… Read More »
On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can create novel videos from written prompts. It joins similar offerings from OpenAI, Runway, Google, and Meta in an increasingly crowded field. Unlike the competition, Adobe claims that Firefly Video Model is trained exclusively on licensed content, potentially sidestepping ethical and… Read More »