Enlarge / With this background, possibly the most viewed photo in human history, Windows XP always indicated it was prepared for a peaceful retirement. Yet… Read More »Green hills forever: Windows XP’s activation algorithm has been cracked after 21 years
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Getty Images | Alan Schein The Biden administration urged Europe to reject the telecom industry’s plan to make Big Tech companies pay for ISP network… Read More »Biden Administrator Wants Europe To Reject Forced Payments From Big Tech To ISPs
Why it matters: Concerns about powerful AI systems are on the rise. Mr. Altman appeared before Congress on May 16 to implore lawmakers to regulate… Read More »AI needs an international watchdog, say OpenAI leaders
Enlarge / A cocoa pod, this one grown in Asia. Cocoa farmers in Ghana and Ivory Coast earn less than a dollar a day. And… Read More »Your chocolate comes with a side dish of deforestation
In August 2021, TikTok received a complaint from a UK user, who indicated that a man had “exposed himself and played with himself” in a… Read More »Inside How TikTok Shares User Data
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European legislators are finalizing an AI law. The Biden administration and leaders in Congress have their plans to rein in artificial intelligence. Sam Altman, the… Read More »New York City is moving to regulate how AI is used in recruiting
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Reid Hoffman, billionaire, entrepreneur and venture capital investor, is concerned about artificial intelligence, but not because of the doomsday scenarios making headlines. Instead, he worries… Read More »Reid Hoffman extols the virtues of AI
Farrar, Straus and Giroux In November 1988, a Cornell University graduate student, Robert Morris, Jr., inadvertently caused a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer… Read More »Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem?
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