Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft threatens to cut rivals’ Bing search index access if they use it for their AI chat tools and warns at least two customers of violating terms — Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines …
Read MoreLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: An affidavit shows how the FBI arrested Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, the alleged admin of BreachForums; the DOJ says it caused the forum to go offline — The Justice Department also said it conducted a “disruption operation” that caused BreachForums to go offline.
Read MoreThe Verge: AI chatbots comparison test: ChatGPT is the most verbally dextrous, Bing is best for getting information from the web, and Bard is surprisingly limited — The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what? We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.
Read MoreWhatever the first computer you used to manipulate digital audio was, the chances are it came with dedicated sound hardware that could play, and probably record, digitized audio. Perhaps it might have been a Commodore Amiga, or maybe a PC with a Sound Blaster. If you happen to be [NICKMANN] though, you can lay claim
Read MoreJameel Jaffer / New York Times: A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users — The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may
Read MoreGeorgia Gee / The Intercept: An investigation finds US homeowners associations teaming up with police to install Flock Safety’s license plate surveillance cameras, without telling residents — At a city council meeting in June 2021, Mayor Thomas Kilgore, of Lakeway, Texas, made an announcement that confused his community.
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM which the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford’s Alpaca model — Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space …
Read MoreIntel: Gordon Moore, Intel’s co-founder and former CEO and author of Moore’s Law, dies at the age of 94 — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. — The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday …
Read MoreSince the Raspberry Pi 3B+ release, the Pi boards we all know and love gained one more weakpoint – the PMIC chip, responsible for generating all the power rails a Pi needs. Specifically, the new PMIC was way more vulnerable to shorting 5V and 3.3V power rails together – something that’s trivial to do on
Read MorePhoto by Becca Farsace / The Verge “My old Dell XPS 15 has gotten sluggish. The battery dies easily. It’s heavy to cart around, anyhow. Now that I’m going out in public again, I need a new work machine.” These were the thoughts circling my head at yesterday’s Framework event — where the company known
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge OpenAI has announced new details about why it took ChatGPT offline on Monday, and it’s now saying that some users’ payment information may have been exposed during the incident. According to a post from the company, a bug in an open source library called redis-py created a
Read MoreGary Price / LJ Infodocket: A federal judge decides in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending program — This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible. — This coverage is free for all visitors.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided
Read MoreTechCrunch: Sources: Fortra told GoAnywhere customers that their data was safe after a ransomware attack by the Clop gang, but two said they later received ransom demands — Software maker Fortra told its corporate customers that their data was safe — even when it wasn’t — following a ransomware attack on its systems, TechCrunch has
Read MoreDrew Harwell / Washington Post: TikTok says Enes Freedom, a former NBA player critical of China, was banned for 12 days due to an error by US moderators before being reinstated on March 23 — Enes Kanter Freedom, a popular figure on the right, had his account restored on the same day TikTok’s chief was
Read MoreThis is from Epic’s Unreal Editor for Fortnite, but it’s not from any Mario Kart track that I’m aware of. | Image: Epic Games Epic Games’ new Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) toolset has only been out for two days, but the company is already having to threaten permanent bans for creators making content that
Read MoreI have a lot of questions! | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Why is the toolbar a different color? Why is it oval when the buttons it features are square? I have helpfully labeled my concerns. Are you aware that this is ugly? Seriously, what is the logic behind the oval / rectangle divide?
Read MorePhoto by Becca Farsace / The Verge Yesterday continued Congress’s recent history of calling tech executives into a hearing to berate them about their excessive collection of users’ private data for financial means. But where Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai suffered through the hearings only to face little to no repercussions for their potentially egregious
Read MoreWith artificial intelligence now being used to write everything from college homework to Congressional speeches, it’s more important than ever to stay on top of the latest advances in machine learning, natural language processing, and all things AI. We’ve brought together a list of seven of the top podcasts that track and explain the newest
Read MoreFermyon Technologies has published Spin 1.0, the first stable release the company’s open source framework for building event-driven microservice applications with WebAssembly. Spin 1.0 was formally introduced on March 22. With Spin, developers can build WebAssembly microservices and web applications for deployment in the cloud. WebAssembly, a fast bytecode format created to run non-JavaScript code
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Hiroshi Lockheimer spoke briefly about RCS, its growth, and Apple. Lockheimer explained that Google isn’t trying to turn RCS into something that replaces other messaging apps. Lockheimer also said he feels bad for iPhone users who experience degraded features and less security. For a while now, Google has been
Read MoreUnlike the Wacom Cintiq Pro 27, the Xencelabs Pen Display 24 includes a stand and ExpressKey accessory as standard. | Image: Xencelabs Graphics hardware manufacturer Xencelabs has announced the Pen Display 24 Studio Series, a new display drawing tablet designed for creative professionals. The 24-inch display is the company’s first drawing tablet with a built-in
Read MoreScreenshot: Mitchell Clark / The Verge Microsoft continues to add AI features to its Bing search engine, even outside of the GPT-powered chat features it’s been pushing. According to a feature roundup blog post, Bing will now “craft AI-generated stories” for some searches, giving you a small multimedia presentation about the thing you looked up.
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: OpenAI blames a bug in a Redis client open-source library for the March 20 ChatGPT history issue and exposure of 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers’ personal info — OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday’s ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users’ personal information
Read MoreWhen you think of tiny microcontroller boards, you probably think of a modern surface mount processor. Not [Andreas Jakob]. His 5×5 cm keychain computer rocks a 6809 CPU at a blistering 1 MHz or, if you prefer, a 6309 that runs at 5 MHz. The RAM — all 32K — is in a SMD package
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