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LexisNexis: IBM had 6,363 cybersecurity patents as of August 2023, followed by Huawei with 5,735 and Tencent with 4,803; six of the top 10 companies are Chinese (Akinobu Iwasawa/Nikkei Asia)

Akinobu Iwasawa / Nikkei Asia: LexisNexis: IBM had 6,363 cybersecurity patents as of August 2023, followed by Huawei with 5,735 and Tencent with 4,803; six of the top 10 companies are Chinese — Chinese companies account for 6 of top 10 in field while IBM remains No. 1 — Chinese companies have made headway …

How Insomniac Games tried to make a Spider-Man suit for every kind of player

Miles Morales in the Across the Spider-Verse suit. | Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment For the art team at Insomniac Games, there’s one job that everyone seems to want: working on Spidey’s suits. Since the first Spider-Man game on the PS4, modeling the in-game suits has been “a hotly contested assignment” among the studio’s character team,

Oh, The Places You’ll Go With Stop Motion Animation

Robots made of broken toy parts, stop-motion animation, and a great song to tie it all together were not on our bingo card for 2023, but the results are perfect. [Mootroidxproductions] recently released the official music video for I Fight Dragons 2019 song “Oh the Places You’ll Go”. The song was written by lead vocalist

The Pixel Watch 2 finally got me to take off my original Fitbit Sense

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown If you’ve been reading Android Authority over the past few years, you may have seen some articles I’ve written about the original Fitbit Sense. In a word, I love the Sense. I’ve published thousands of words here talking about it since it first

Despite limited progress, delegates at the UK’s AI Safety Summit welcomed the discussions as a first step toward international collaboration on regulating AI (Billy Perrigo/TIME)

Billy Perrigo / TIME: Despite limited progress, delegates at the UK’s AI Safety Summit welcomed the discussions as a first step toward international collaboration on regulating AI — On an ordinary weekday in November, Bletchley Park plays host to a mixture of elderly pensioners and bands of unruly schoolchildren …

Monochrome themes aren’t boring. The Nothing Phone 2 convinced me of that.

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Colors are beautiful. I love a pop of color, be it in my life, my furniture, my clothes, and yes, even my Android phones. I choose a colored phone and case when I can, I often pick colorful wallpapers, and I stick

Fake news and ridiculing the dead — what’s wrong with Microsoft’s AI news

Image: The Verge A new CNN report about the MSN AI model’s news aggregation kicks off with examples of questionable editorial calls, like highlighting a story claiming President Joe Biden dozed off during a moment of silence for Maui wildfire victims (he didn’t), or an obituary that inexplicably referred to an NBA player as “useless.”

Reducing Poop on Multicolor Prints

While multicolor printing eliminates painting steps and produces vibrant objects, there are two significant downsides; filament consumption and print time. A single-nozzle filament printer needs to switch from one color to another, and doing so involves switching to the other filament and then purging the transition filament that contains a mixture of both colors, before

Sources: Palo Alto Networks is close to acquiring Tel Aviv-based startup Talon Cyber Security for $600M to $700M, and may announce the deal as soon as Monday (Maria Heeter/The Information)

Maria Heeter / The Information: Sources: Palo Alto Networks is close to acquiring Tel Aviv-based startup Talon Cyber Security for $600M to $700M, and may announce the deal as soon as Monday — Palo Alto Networks is close to acquiring Israeli startup Talon Cyber Security in a deal that could value it at $600 million

Here’s Everything You Can Do With Copilot, the Generative AI Assistant on Windows 11

Microsoft’s operating system just got supercharged with Bing and Dall-E integrations, and more.

Where the Hell Is X CEO Linda Yaccarino?

Despite Linda Yaccarino having the top job at X, Elon Musk’s outsize presence may be hampering her ability to succeed.

Perfect Dark: Recompiled

There’s an interesting renaissance of Nintendo 64 gaming, powered by the ability to decompile n64 roms back into C code using Ghidra. There are projects around multiple classic games, taking the Ghidra output and renaming the generic function and variable names. There are two approaches to these projects, sometimes happening in parallel. The first is

Focal Theva No. 1 Speakers Review: Smooth and Creamy

This beautiful pair of speakers is among the best you’ll find under a thousand bucks.

How AI brought the Beatles back together one more time

Illustration: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 13, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been watching Barbarian and No

The JWST Has Spotted Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.

Forget the iPad mini 7, I traded my iPad Air 5 in for the 6th gen model anyway

Despite Apple not revealing a new one at its “Scary Fast” event, I still traded my 5th-generation iPad Air in for the 6th-generation iPad mini.

A look at the disparity between Amazon’s drone delivery claims and the mundane reality, as only some small objects are delivered in perfect weather conditions (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at the disparity between Amazon’s drone delivery claims and the mundane reality, as only some small objects are delivered in perfect weather conditions — Amazon’s much-hyped drone project is dropping small objects on driveways. Some customers are not sure what it delivers beyond minestrone.

Lessons in Printer Poop Recycling

The fundamental problem with multi-color 3D printing using a single hotend is that they poop an awful lot. Every time they change filaments, they’ve got to purge the single nozzle, which results in a huge number of technicolor “purge poops” which on some machines are even ejected out a chute at the back of the

A look at BlizzCon 2023, the first in-person since 2019, which saw updates for WoW and more, and wasn’t sold out before the event began, unlike prior iterations (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: A look at BlizzCon 2023, the first in-person since 2019, which saw updates for WoW and more, and wasn’t sold out before the event began, unlike prior iterations — Tens of thousands of fans, a handful dressed up as their favorite characters from the video games Warcraft and Overwatch …

Okta’s autopsy report on its support system breach understated the role of a badly configured service account, the biggest contributing factor for the breach (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Okta’s autopsy report on its support system breach understated the role of a badly configured service account, the biggest contributing factor for the breach — If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you’re doing it wrong. — Identity and authentication management provider Okta …

A look at AI companies’ responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, to possible US Copyright Office changes around AI and copyrighted content (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Wes Davis / The Verge: A look at AI companies’ responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, to possible US Copyright Office changes around AI and copyrighted content — The biggest companies in AI aren’t interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why.

Elon Musk’s xAI releases its AI model Grok, which it says surpasses other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users (xAI)

xAI: Elon Musk’s xAI releases its AI model Grok, which it says surpasses other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users — Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to

Flash Programmer Shows Some Nifty Tricks

A handy tool to have on the bench is a Flash chip programmer, and the ones based around the CH341A USB bus converter chip are readily available. But the chip is capable of so much more than simply programming nonvolatile memory, so [Tomasz Ostrowski] has created a utility program that expands its capabilities. The software

Epic v. Google, explained

Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Everything you need to know about the big app store trial kicking off November 6th. Continue reading…

Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on the Content Authenticity Initiative, content credentials, AI deepfake detection, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on the Content Authenticity Initiative, content credentials, AI deepfake detection, and more — Instead of detecting fakes, this effort aims to authenticate and track online images from the start; Adobe’s chief trust officer on the strategy

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