Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge American Department of Defense policy already bans artificial intelligence from autonomously launching nuclear weapons. But amid rising fears of AI spurred by a plethora of potential threats, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has decided to make extra-double-sure it can’t. As announced earlier this week, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA)
Read MoreKim Zetter / Wired: Sources: the US DOJ discovered the SolarWinds breach in late May 2020, months before its public disclosure in December 2020, but was unaware of its significance — In May 2020, the US Department of Justice stumbled upon Russian hackers in its network, but did not realize the significance of what it
Read MoreEven if surface-mount skills aren’t in your repertoire, chances are pretty good that most of us are at least familiar with SMD stencils. These paper-thin laser-cut steel sheets are a handy way to apply a schmear of solder paste to the pads of a PCB before component placement and reflowing. But are stencils good for
Read MorePedestrians walk past the front of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. headquarters office in Tokyo on Thursday, June 23rd, 2005. | Photo by Haruyoshi Yamaguchi / Bloomberg via Getty Images Mitsubishi wants to be the world’s biggest dealer of carbon removal credits. Keep in mind that the company has its hand in many of the most polluting
Read MoreApple is said to have a journaling app in the works but Day One creator Paul Mayne isn’t worried.
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Synergy: enterprise cloud spending grew 19% YoY to $63B in Q1 2023, vs. 32% growth in Q1 2022; Amazon took 32% market share, Microsoft 23%, and Google 10% — As expected, companies are continuing to cut back on their cloud spend where possible, as tech budgets continue to get careful scrutiny.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge ChatGPT maker OpenAI has restored access to its service in Italy, saying it has implemented changes to satisfy Italian regulators. “ChatGPT is available again to our users in Italy,” it said in a statement published by The Associated Press and also sent to The Verge. “We are excited to welcome them back,
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Android 14 could bring a new theme style to Material You called “Fidelity.” Fidelity offers significantly bolder Material You colors than what was available before. The bolder colors aren’t directly available in Android 14 yet. Material You has been the face of Android UI design language since Android 12.
Read MoreHonkai: Star Rail officially launched on April 25th in most time zones. It only takes about an hour of gameplay before the game has a choice for the player. You choose your main character for the entire game. The options are Caelus and Stelle. They have no introduction, so players wonder which they should choose.
Read MoreHonkai: Star Rail officially launched on April 25th in most time zones. It only takes about an hour of gameplay before the game has a choice for the player. You choose your main character for the entire game. The options are Caelus and Stelle. They have no introduction, so players wonder which they should choose.
Read MoreStar Wars Jedi: Survivor. | Image: EA We were largely happy with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor when we played it on PS5 — here’s our full review — but it’s having major issues on PC. A day after launch, 63 percent of its Steam reviews are negative, complaining that even high-end components can’t competently run
Read MoreKelvin Chan / Associated Press: ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog’s demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training — ChatGPT’s maker said Friday that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands …
Read MoreImage: Marvel Studios James Gunn’s third Guardians movie is packed with stunning set pieces, but its saccharine attempts at sentimentality and a by-the-numbers plot keep it from ever reaching lift-off. Continue reading…
Read MoreIn May 2020, the US Department of Justice stumbled upon Russian hackers in its network. But did not realize the significance of what they had found for six months.
Read MoreSmart rings are unique in the world of fitness trackers. Instead of wrist-worn devices with large displays and flexible straps, smart rings are more rigid bands made for wear on a finger. As a consequence of this design, smart rings usually require a measurement process before purchase, which is no less true with the Oura
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge The current AI boom, from Bing and Midjourney, relies on free access to training data, much of it scraped from the web and often protected by copyright. The use of this data has led to both criticism and lawsuits, particularly in the art world, with rights owners arguing that
Read MoreImage: Peacock The video game adaptations are moving faster than a man strapped between two giant wheels. The latest is Peacock’s adaptation of the vehicular combat series Twisted Metal, which just got its first trailer. The short clip doesn’t reveal much, but you do get a glimpse of a very creepy Sweet Tooth the clown,
Read MoreThe Bang & Olufsen Beosound A5 definitely looks the part, and with AirPlay 2 and an Apple-like price, why can’t Apple make something like this?
Read MoreIn this week’s podcast, non-brothers Elliot Williams and Al Williams talk about our favorite hacks of the week. Elliot’s got analog on the brain, courtesy of the ongoing Op Amp Contest, and Al is all about the retrocomputers, from a thrift-store treasure to an old, but still incredibly serviceable, voice synthesizer. Both agree that they
Read MoreYou can tell this game’s gonna be good because he has a beard and scars now. | Image: EA It’s launch day for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and if you want to get your lightsaber action on from day one, you can do so with a $10 gift card in hand. Target is selling the
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Two-factor authentication (2FA) is one of the best and easiest ways to keep your online accounts secure. It works by issuing an authentication code on your phone when somebody tries to access the account; if that person doesn’t have the code, they (or you) don’t get in. By
Read MoreImage: Poncle Vampire Survivors, one of the breakout games of 2022, is being turned into an animated television show. The show seems to be very early in production (it doesn’t yet have a writer and will be shopped around, Deadline reports), but I’m intrigued to see how the game will be adapted into a TV
Read MoreJoyce E. Cutler / Bloomberg Law: Ex-HeadSpin CEO Manish Lachwani pleads guilty to securities and wire fraud charges for disseminating false and overstated revenue metrics to potential investors — Manish Lachwani, who co-founded and led Silicon Valley startup HeadSpin Inc., pleaded guilty Thursday to securities and wire fraud charges, federal prosecutors said.
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: Elon Musk shut off OpenAI’s access to Twitter’s data in December, believing that $2M a year licensing fee that OpenAI was paying wasn’t enough — The billionaire plans to compete with OpenAI, the ChatGPT developer he helped found, while calling out the potential harms of artificial intelligence.
Read MoreApple’s App Tracking Transparency hasn’t been the poison pill some thought it would be, although there has been an impact.
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