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The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT

Enlarge / With these tips, you too can prompt people successfully. In a break from our normal practice, Ars is publishing this helpful guide to knowing how to prompt the "human brain," should…

Microsoft blamed for “a cascade of security failures” in Exchange breach report

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A federal Cyber Safety Review Board has issued its report on what led to last summer's capture of hundreds of thousands of emails by Chinese hackers from cloud customers,…

AI hype invades Taco Bell and Pizza Hut

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Depending on who you ask about AI (and how you define it), the technology may or may not be useful, but one thing is for certain: AI hype is…

Broadcom execs say VMware price, subscription complaints are unwarranted 

Enlarge (credit: Broadcom) Broadcom has made controversial changes to VMware since closing its acquisition of the virtualization brand in late November. Broadcom executives are trying to convince VMware customers and partners that they'll…

Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, 200 artists say AI poses existential threat to their livelihoods

Enlarge / Billie Eilish attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. (credit:…

Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack

Enlarge / Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, which is part of Jackson County. (credit: Eric Rogers) Jackson County, Missouri, has declared a state of emergency and closed key offices indefinitely as it responds to…

Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about

Enlarge / An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center under construction in Stone Ridge, Virginia, in March 2024. Amazon will spend more than $150 billion on data centers in the next 15 years.…

OpenAI drops login requirements for ChatGPT’s free version

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) On Monday, OpenAI announced that visitors to the ChatGPT website in some regions can now use the AI assistant without signing in. Previously, the company required that users create…

Microsoft splits up the Teams and Office apps worldwide, following EU split

Enlarge / Teams is being decoupled from the other Office apps worldwide, six months after Microsoft did the same thing for the EU. (credit: Microsoft/Andrew Cunningham) Months after unbundling the apps in the…

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

Enlarge / Malware Detected Warning Screen with abstract binary code 3d digital concept (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, researchers revealed the discovery of a backdoor that was intentionally planted in xz Utils, an…