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Feeding the machine: We give an AI some headlines and see what it does

Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. There's a moment in any foray into new technological territory that you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at…

AT&T will let unlimited-data customers pay more to avoid the slow lane

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez) On Monday, AT&T announced the end of data slowdowns for smartphone users who purchase "unlimited" data—but the perk is only for customers who buy AT&T's most…

How much do you pay your ISP? Consumer Reports wants to see your bill

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | uba-foto) With broadband-industry lobby groups implausibly claiming that Internet providers have slashed their prices, Consumer Reports is on a mission to collect and analyze thousands of monthly Internet…

SolarWinds 0-day gave Chinese hackers privileged access to customer servers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said on Tuesday that hackers operating in China exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a SolarWinds product. According to Microsoft, the hackers were, in all likelihood, targeting software companies…

Microsoft discovers critical SolarWinds zero-day under active attack

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) SolarWinds, the company at the center of a supply chain attack that compromised nine US agencies and 100 private companies, is scrambling to contain a new security threat: a…

Is our machine learning? Ars takes a dip into artificial intelligence

Enlarge Every day, some little piece of logic constructed by very specific bits of artificial intelligence technology makes decisions that affect how you experience the world. It could be the ads that get…

Feds indict “The Bull” for allegedly selling insider stock info on the dark web

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors and attorneys on Friday charged a man with securities fraud for allegedly selling insider stock information on the dark web site AlphaBay. The defendant also sold information…

AV mogul John McAfee found dead by hanging in Spanish prison cell

Enlarge / John McAfee on his yacht off the coast of Cuba in 2019. (credit: Adalberto ROQUE / AFP / Getty) John McAfee—the antivirus tycoon whose eccentric and often illegal antics on yachts…

Altice is reducing cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86% next month

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | buzbuzzer) Altice is slashing its cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86 percent starting on July 12. Altice Optimum Online plans that currently have advertised upload speeds of…

“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

Enlarge (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending that customers unplug My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company…