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Baidu shares fall after Ernie AI chatbot demo disappoints

Enlarge / "Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of Baidu," chief Robin Li introduces the functions of the company’s AI chatbot Ernie in Beijing…

Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool $24K a year

Enlarge (credit: Getty) A public pool in the UK is expected to save £20,000 (about $24,000) and cut carbon emissions by 25.8 tons annually by warming a 25 m and children's pool with…

AI imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands

Enlarge / An example of lighting and skin effects in the AI image generator Midjourney v5. (credit: Julie W. Design) On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image synthesis service,…

Federal agency hacked by 2 groups thanks to flaw that went unpatched for 4 years

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Multiple threat actors—one working on behalf of a nation-state—gained access to the network of a US federal agency by exploiting a four-year-old vulnerability that remained unpatched, the US government…

Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to T-Mobile for $1.35B

Enlarge / Hug it out, boys. As every Roman historian and Shakespeare fan knows, a soothsayer once told Caesar to beware the Ides of March, for on that day, dark and terrible things…

Security firm Rubrik is latest to be felled by GoAnywhere vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Rubrik, the Silicon Valley data security company, said that it experienced a network intrusion made possible by a zero-day vulnerability in a product it used called GoAnywhere. In an…

OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world

Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model's emergent…

OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks

Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept text and image inputs while returning text output that "exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic…

Ransomware attacks have entered a heinous new phase

Enlarge (credit: Don Farrall/Getty Images) In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that's part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). At the…

Amazon unveils three satellite user terminals, plans broadband service in 2024

Enlarge / Satellite broadband user terminals designed by Amazon's Project Kuiper. (credit: Amazon) Amazon has designed three satellite broadband user terminals and will start offering Internet service in 2024, the company announced today.…