Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past 15 years, Microsoft has made huge progress fortifying the Windows kernel, the core of the OS that hackers must control to successfully take control of a computer. A Read more…
Still from “A teddy bear washing dishes,” as generated by Google Imagen Video. (credit: Google) Today, Google announced the development of Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI mode capable of producing 1280×768 videos at 24 frames Read more…
Enlarge / “Sarah” from Virtua Fighter gets an AI makeover thanks to Stable Diffusion and a fan named Colin Williamson. (credit: Colin Williamson) In 1993, Sega’s Virtual Fighter arcade game broke new ground with fully Read more…
Enlarge / The White House, engulfed in pixels. (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) Today, the White House proposed a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a set of principles and practices that seek Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A ransomware outfit calling itself Vice Society has dumped nearly 300,000 files belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District as punishment for rebuffing demands it pay the group a hefty Read more…
Enlarge / And there was much rejoicing, as a new Linux kernel version had arrived before its founder ran out of fingers and toes for counting. (credit: Getty Images) A stable version of Linux 6.0 Read more…
Enlarge / The real Bruce Willis at a film premiere in 2019. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, Ars Technica reported that Bruce Willis had sold his likeness for use in deepfakes, according to The Telegraph. Read more…
Enlarge / The walking Optimus prototype demonstrated at the AI Day 2022 event. (credit: Tesla) Today at Tesla’s “AI Day” press event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled an early prototype of its Optimus humanoid robot, Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft late Thursday confirmed the existence of two critical vulnerabilities in its Exchange application that have already compromised multiple servers and pose a serious risk to an estimated 220,000 more around Read more…
Enlarge / Deepfake Bruce Willis as he appeared in a 2021 commercial for Russian mobile company MegaFon. (credit: MegaFon) Bruce Willis has sold the “digital twin” rights to his likeness for commercial video production use, Read more…