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Lobbyists have held up nation’s first right-to-repair bill in New York

Enlarge / Tech companies, including Apple, have lobbied hard to prevent a New York bill that would require them to make repair information and parts available to individuals and non-affiliated repair techs. (credit:…

Make your noisy recording sound like pro audio with Adobe’s free AI tool

Enlarge / Adobe's Enhance Speech service can remove background noise from certain voice recordings. (credit: Adobe) Recently, Adobe released a free AI-powered audio processing tool that can enhance some poor-quality voice recordings by…

Swatters used Ring cameras to livestream attacks, taunt police, prosecutors say

Enlarge Federal prosecutors have charged two men with allegedly taking part in a spree of swatting attacks against more than a dozen owners of compromised Ring home security cameras and using that access…

The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater

Enlarge (credit: Huang Evan via Getty Images) In 2022, an American dressed in his pajamas took down North Korea’s Internet from his living room. Fortunately, there was no reprisal against the United States.…

Riffusion’s AI generates music from text using visual sonograms

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of musical notes exploding forth from a computer monitor. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, a pair of tech hobbyists released Riffusion, an AI model that generates music from…

FuboTV goes kaput during World Cup semifinals, blames “criminal cyber attack”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Sports-focused streaming-video service FuboTV said a “criminal cyber attack” was responsible for a prolonged outage that prevented subscribers from viewing most of Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal between France and…

Artists stage mass protest against AI-generated artwork on ArtStation

Enlarge / A screenshot of the "Trending" page on ArtStation from December 14, 2022. It shows anti-AI protest images added by artists across the site. (credit: ArtStation) On Tuesday, members of the online…

Microsoft discovers Windows/Linux botnet used in DDoS attacks

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on other…

Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person leaving a building, thus opting out of the vertical blinds convention. (credit: Ars Technica) On Wednesday, Stability AI announced it would allow artists to remove…

Meet Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you

Enlarge / Ghostwriter understands what you type and can automatically write responses using OpenAI's GPT-3. (credit: Arvind Sanjeev / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, a designer and engineer named Arvind Sanjeev revealed his process…