Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an exploding ball of music. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, researchers from Google announced a new generative AI model called MusicLM that can create 24 KHz musical audio from Read more…
Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. (credit: SOPA Images / Getty Images) Nearly 45GB of source code files, Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images) 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 Read more…
Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. Threat actors loyal to the Kremlin have stepped up attacks in support of its invasion of Ukraine, with Read more…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot typewriter-journalist hard at work. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal revealed that BuzzFeed is planning to use ChatGPT-style text Read more…
Enlarge / An example of computer-synthesized handwriting generated by Calligrapher.ai. (credit: Ars Technica) Thanks to a free web app called calligrapher.ai, anyone can simulate handwriting with a neural network that runs in a browser via Read more…
Enlarge Three weeks ago, panic swept across some corners of the security world after researchers discovered a breakthrough that, at long last, put the cracking of the widely used RSA encryption scheme within reach by Read more…
Enlarge / Nvidia’s Eye Contact feature automatically maintains eye contact with a camera for you. (credit: Nvidia) Nvidia recently released a beta version of Eye Contact, an AI-powered software video feature that automatically maintains eye Read more…
Enlarge / An illustration of a chatbot exploding onto the scene, being very threatening. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) ChatGPT has Google spooked. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Google founders Larry Read more…
Enlarge / The OpenAI logo superimposed over the Microsoft logo. (credit: Ars Technica) On Monday, AI tech darling OpenAI announced that it received a “multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment” from Microsoft, following previous investments in 2019 Read more…