Enlarge (credit: Gertty Images) For years, Big Tech has insisted that the death of the password is right around the corner. For years, those assurances have been little more than empty promises. The password alternatives—such Read more…
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway with Wi-Fi 6E. (credit: Comcast) For Comcast Internet customers frustrated by the cable service’s slow upload speeds, there have been some welcome announcements recently. But the availability of faster Read more…
Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images/Getty) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Renters filed a lawsuit this week alleging that Read more…
(credit: Pixabay) Hackers have been exploiting a now-patched vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access in campaigns to install various ransomware and cryptocurrency miners, a researcher at security firm Fortinet said on Thursday. CVE-2022-22954 is a Read more…
Enlarge / Palette.fm does AI photo colorization using text prompts for refinement. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) A Swedish machine learning researcher named Emil Wallner has released a free web tool called Palette.fm that Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Suebsiri Srithanyarat / EyeEm / Getty Images) A ransomware attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District in the first week of September crippled digital operations across the system, which includes more than Read more…
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Google Play has given the boot to 16 apps with more than 20 million combined installations after researchers detected malicious activity that could cause the Android devices they ran Read more…
Enlarge / U.S Court (not pictured) rules that software cannot be registered as a patent “inventor.” (credit: Ars Technica) The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that AI software cannot be Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft is facing criticism for the way it disclosed a recent security lapse that exposed what a security company said was 2.4 terabytes of data that included signed invoices and contracts, Read more…
Enlarge / Project Blink can edit video using text search and word processing techniques. (credit: Adobe) Yesterday, Adobe announced Project Blink, an AI-powered web app that can recognize objects, people, sounds, and words spoken in Read more…