Enlarge (credit: Starlink) Starlink’s median download speeds in the US dropped from 90.6Mbps to 62.5Mbps between the first and second quarters of 2022, according to Ookla speed tests. Starlink’s median upload speeds in the US Read more…
Enlarge / An excerpt from the AI-assisted comic book Zarya of the Dawn, which received a US copyright registration. (credit: Kris Kashtanova) In what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova Read more…
Enlarge / A pink waveform on a blue background suggesting a visual depiction of audio. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, OpenAI released a new open source AI model called Whisper that recognizes Read more…
Enlarge / A selection of Stable Diffusion images with a strikeout through them. (credit: Ars Technica) Getty Images has banned the sale of AI generative artwork created using image synthesis models such as Stable Diffusion, Read more…
Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) The record-vying distributed denial-of-service attacks keep coming, with two mitigation services reporting they encountered some of the biggest data bombardments ever by threat actors Read more…
Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added. (credit: Ars Technica) Late last week, a California-based AI artist who goes by Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Morgan Stanley on Tuesday agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a $35 million penalty for data security lapses that included unencrypted hard drives from decommissioned data centers being Read more…
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Fusco ) Comcast announced today that it has tested “the final technical component necessary to deliver multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds” and said it’s on track Read more…
Enlarge / A press handout showing the Nvidia H100 Hopper GPU and its applications. (credit: Nvidia) At today’s GTC conference keynote, Nvidia announced that its H100 Tensor Core GPU is in full production and that Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Knk Phl Prasan Kha Phibuly / EyeEm via Getty) Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot Read more…