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New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled

Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of robots making science. (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, Meta AI unveiled a demo of Galactica, a large language model designed to "store, combine and reason about scientific…

ISP deploys fiber service with a wrinkle—the users themselves own each network

Enlarge / Horizontal boring equipment installing fiber in Los Altos Hills, California. (credit: Los Altos Hills Community Fiber) Our recent article about Silicon Valley residents who formed a co-op Internet service provider might…

Amazon begins layoffs of up to 10,000 jobs, blames “uncertain” economy

Enlarge / An Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation smart speaker. (credit: Getty Images | Gado ) Amazon has started a round of layoffs that reportedly could cut about 10,000 jobs. Layoffs began yesterday…

Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build massive AI cloud computer

Enlarge / Nvidia and Microsoft are teaming up on an AI cloud supercomputer. (credit: Nvidia) On Wednesday, Nvidia announced a collaboration with Microsoft to build a "massive" cloud computer focused on AI. It…

“Project Volterra” review: Microsoft’s $600 Arm PC that almost doesn’t suck

Enlarge / Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 is meant to get the Arm version of Windows into the hands of more developers. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Microsoft has released two new systems based on…

Researchers break security guarantees of TTE networking used in spacecraft

Enlarge / People look inside an Orion spacecraft simulator, which is used to train for docking to the Gateway space station, at the Johnson Space Center's System Engineering Simulator facility in Houston. (credit:…

State-sponsored hackers in China compromise certificate authority

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nation-state hackers based in China recently infected a certificate authority and several government and defense agencies with a potent malware cocktail for burrowing inside a network and stealing sensitive…

How North Korea became a mastermind of crypto cybercrime

Enlarge (credit: Financial Times) Created by a Vietnamese gaming studio, Axie Infinity offers players the chance to breed, trade, and fight Pokémon-like cartoon monsters to earn cryptocurrencies including the game’s own “Smooth Love…

Hungry for AI? New supercomputer contains 16 dinner-plate-size chips

Enlarge / The Cerebras Andromeda, a 13.5 million core AI supercomputer. (credit: Cerebras) On Monday, Cerebras Systems unveiled its 13.5 million core Andromeda AI supercomputer for deep learning, reports Reuters. According Cerebras, Andromeda…

“Dark ships” emerge from the shadow of the Nord Stream pipeline mystery

Enlarge (credit: Swedish Coast Guard/Getty Images) The first gas leaks on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea were detected in the early hours of September 26, pouring up to 400,000…