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Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI

Enlarge / An AI-generated and human composited image of "Wolverine programming on a computer." (credit: Benj Edwards / Midjourney) Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do it…

Apple releases last week’s security patches for older iPhones, iPads, and Macs

Enlarge / iPhones running iOS 15. (credit: Apple) Last week, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 16.4.1 and macOS Ventura 13.3.1 to patch two actively exploited security vulnerabilities and fix other small bugs. Today…

Analysts say Mac sales are down 40% as post-pandemic PC sales slump continues

Enlarge / Apple's M2 Pro Mac mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The analysts at IDC have released their worldwide PC sales numbers for the first quarter of 2023, and the news isn't good for…

There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes

Enlarge / Infrared image of a person jimmying open a vehicle. (credit: Getty Images) When a London man discovered the front left-side bumper of his Toyota RAV4 torn off and the headlight partially…

Artists astound with AI-generated film stills from a parallel universe

Enlarge / An AI-generated image from an #aicinema still series called "Vinyl Vengeance" by Julie Wieland, created using Midjourney. (credit: Julie Wieland / Midjourney) Since last year, a group of artists have been…

Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Over the past few months, AI chatbots like ChatGPT have captured the world's attention due to their ability to converse in a human-like way on just…

ChatGPT vs Google Bard: Which is better? We put them to the test.

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of two robots fighting in an arena. (credit: Benj Edwards / Midjourney) In today's world of generative AI chatbots, we've witnessed the sudden rise of OpenAI's ChatGPT, introduced…

President Biden delivers remarks on “risks of artificial intelligence”

Enlarge On Tuesday, President Joe Biden delivered brief remarks on artificial intelligence risks at the opening of a meeting with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the White House.…

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure face antitrust probe

Enlarge (credit: Bruno Vincent / Getty Images) The UK’s communications watchdog has called for a probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of the country’s cloud computing market in the latest challenge to the…

Meta introduces AI model that can isolate and mask objects within images

Enlarge / An example of SAM selecting the outline of a corgi in a photo. (credit: Meta) On Wednesday, Meta announced an AI model called the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that can identify…