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Major AI companies form group to research, keep control of AI

Enlarge / The four companies say they launched the Frontier Model Forum to ensure "the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models." (credit: Financial Times) Four of the world’s most advanced artificial…

Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris Delmas) Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as "X" wouldn't be complete without a change to the company's official Twitter account. The @X handle was already taken…

Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It has been a tough year for PC companies and companies that make PC components. Companies like Intel, AMD, and Nvidia have all reported big drops in revenue from…

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a slot machine in a desert. (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, OpenAI quietly pulled its AI Classifier, an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text. The decommissioning, first…

Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm

Enlarge (credit: Evgen_Prozhyrko via Getty) For more than 25 years, a technology used for critical data and voice radio communications around the world has been shrouded in secrecy to prevent anyone from closely…

Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

Enlarge (credit: AMD) A recently disclosed bug in many of AMD's newer consumer, workstation, and server processors can cause the chips to leak data at a rate of up to 30 kilobytes per…

The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

Enlarge / A Z16 Mainframe. Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If they’re dinosaurs,…

AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro

Enlarge / AlmaLinux lets you build applications that work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux but can't promise the exact same bug environment. That's different from how they started, but it's also a chance…

ChatGPT’s new personalization feature could save users a lot of time

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a chatbot in front of library shelves. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion) On Thursday, OpenAI announced a new beta feature for ChatGPT that allows users to…

The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

Enlarge (credit: Banj Edwards | Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) "When checking the system this morning, I noticed your account logged in for over 20 hours," begins a December 1998 email from the…