Ars Technica - Biz & IT

Amazon is investing in small modular nuclear reactors. while they’re radiation safe, they’re a risky investment.

App swears there’s no way for law enforcement to track users’ identities.

A future where realistic video fakes are easy and plentiful seems inevitable.

Email accounts inside 5 US companies unlawfully breached through password resets.

Altman steps back from the keynote limelight and lets four major API additions do the talking.

Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.

With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too.

Tiny device installed inside TI-84 enables Wi-Fi Internet, access to AI chatbot.

New o1 language model can solve complex tasks iteratively, count Rs in "strawberry."

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

New AI feature aims to streamline game creation on popular online platform.

Botched update leads to claims that competitors are "ambulance chasing."

Using one photo and free software, someone can impersonate your appearance in a video chat.

Woolf: "OpenAI just leaked the plot of Black Mirror's next season."

It took $70 and 24 hours for Ryan Castellucci to gain access to 200 MW of capacity.

Mass wiping occurs after hack of mobile device management platform.

Delta is creating a "misleading narrative," according to CrowdStrike's lawyers.

Law would hold US individuals and firms liable for ripping off a person's digital likeness.

Create new group called "ESX Admins" and ESXi automatically gives it admin rights.

Critics say SB-1047, proposed by "AI doomers," could slow innovation and stifle open source AI.

New system foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch.

Influencer platform's controversial contest awarded prizes to three nonexistent people.

Five-level AI classification system probably best seen as a marketing exercise.

The strict requirement for two physical keys is now eased when passkeys are used.

Will LLMs keep improving if we throw more compute at them? OpenAI dealmaker thinks so.

Files available on the open source NPM repository underscore a growing sophistication.

Karpathy's Eureka Labs will pair human-made curriculum with an AI-powered assistant.

Stolen data includes customer names, addresses, birth dates, and driver's license numbers.

After repealing Biden's AI order, draft would create "Manhattan Projects" for military AI.

Yep, passwords for administrators can be changed, too.

Lower-cost AI language model will be free for ChatGPT users.

You can't see inside the firmware, but more open code can translate it for you.

Nobody's sure who's at fault for each outage: Microsoft, CrowdStrike, or both.

Admins can also restore backups or manually delete CrowdStrike's buggy driver.

Researchers use technique to quantify eyeball reflections that often reveal deepfake images.

When reboots don't work, bootable USB sticks may help ease fixes for some PCs.

"Open source AI is the path forward," says Mark Zuckerberg, misusing the term.