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My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop

Enlarge / Benj Edwards’ computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. (credit: Benj Edwards) Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, Read more…

By , 3 years ago December 1, 2022
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Google ties Spanish IT firm to 0-days exploiting Chrome, Defender, and Firefox

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google researchers said on Wednesday they have linked a Barcelona, Spain-based IT company to the sale of advanced software frameworks that exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows Defender. Variston IT Read more…

By , 3 years ago December 1, 2022
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Disney’s new neural network can change an actor’s age with ease

Enlarge / An example of Disney’s FRAN age-changing AI that shows the original image on the left and re-aged rows of older (top, at age 65) and younger (lower, at age 18) examples of the Read more…

By , 3 years ago November 30, 2022
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Play app with 100K downloads booted for forwarding texts to developer server

Enlarge (credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google has removed two apps, one with more than 100,000 downloads, after receiving a report they were part of an illegal scheme that surreptitiously forwarded text messages Read more…

By , 3 years ago November 30, 2022
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OpenAI upgrades GPT-3, stunning with rhyming poetry and lyrics

Enlarge / An AI-generated image inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. (credit: Ars Technica) On Monday, OpenAI announced a new model in the GPT-3 family of AI-powered large language models, text-davinci-003, that reportedly improves on its Read more…

By , 3 years ago November 29, 2022
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How secure a Twitter replacement is Mastodon? Let us count the ways

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As Elon Musk critics flee from Twitter, Mastodon seems to be the most common replacement. In the last month, the number of monthly active users on Mastodon has rocketed more than Read more…

By , 3 years ago November 29, 2022
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Used thin client PCs are an unsexy, readily available Raspberry Pi alternative

Enlarge / This ThinkCentre M90n-1 Nano from 2019, passively cooled with a big heatsink, was $145 when the author last looked on eBay. It’s not a Raspberry Pi, and it looks like Batman’s reception desk Read more…

By , 3 years ago November 29, 2022
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Nvidia wins award for AI that can play Minecraft on command

Enlarge / MineDojo’s AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft. (credit: Nvidia) A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia’s generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Read more…

By , 3 years ago November 28, 2022
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European Parliament DDoSed after declaring Russia a sponsor of terrorism

Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. The European Parliament website was knocked offline for several hours on Wednesday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack Read more…

By , 3 years ago November 23, 2022
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Apple iPhone factory workers clash with police in China

Enlarge / Workers walk outside Hon Hai Group’s Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, in 2010. (credit: Getty) Violent worker protests have erupted at the world’s largest iPhone factory in central China as authorities at the Read more…

By , 3 years ago November 23, 2022

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