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AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Effective compression is about finding patterns to make data smaller without losing information. When an algorithm or model can accurately guess the next piece of data in a sequence,…

Meta launches consumer AI chatbots with celebrity avatars in its social apps

Enlarge / Meta's AI characters feature Snoop Dogg playing a dungeon master that dispenses gaming advice. (credit: Meta) On Wednesday, Meta announced its consumer-friendly entry into the crowded AI chatbot landscape, The Verge…

A new Chrome 0-day is sending the Internet into a new chapter of Groundhog Day

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A critical zero-day vulnerability Google reported on Wednesday in its Chrome browser is opening the Internet to a new chapter of Groundhog Day. Like a critical zero-day Google disclosed…

Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical webp 0-day

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google has quietly resubmitted a disclosure of a critical code-execution vulnerability affecting thousands of individual apps and software frameworks after its previous submission left readers with the mistaken impression…

Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by the Chinese government are planting malware into routers that provides long-lasting and undetectable backdoor access to the networks of multinational companies in the US and Japan,…

Spotify uses AI to clone and translate podcaster voices in new pilot program

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Spotify rolled out a limited pilot program that uses AI to automatically translate podcasts into various languages, using voice synthesis technology from OpenAI to preserve the original…

Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Altman reportedly collaborating on mysterious AI device

Enlarge / Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (right). (credit: Getty Images) Ex-Apple design star Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been discussing the design of an…

Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When you type a question into Google Search, the site sometimes provides a quick answer called a Featured Snippet at the top of the results, pulled from websites it…

GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack

Enlarge GPUs from all six of the major suppliers are vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that allows malicious websites to read the usernames, passwords, and other sensitive visual data displayed by other…

Getty Images subscribers to get access to AI image generator

Enlarge (credit: Arun Nevader) Getty Images will give hundreds of thousands of users access to a new artificial intelligence image-generating tool, as a global intellectual property debate intensifies around the fast-moving technology. The…