Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it
In brief Plus: Explore the limits of language models in bizarre research experiment, and more
23 Oct 2021 | 38
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Unvaccinated and working at Apple? Prepare for COVID-19 testing 'every time' you step in the office
Tell us you've been jabbed or...
21 Oct 2021 | 216
Boeing's Starliner capsule corroded due to high humidity levels, NASA explains, and the spaceship won't fly this year
Meanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions
21 Oct 2021 | 74
Chip shortage forces temporary Raspberry Pi 4 price rise for the first time
Ten-buck increase for 2GB model 'not here to stay' says Upton
21 Oct 2021 | 6
Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active
* Just a couple of billion years
20 Oct 2021 | 18
Allegations of favoring visa holders over US workers for jobs cost Facebook just 4 hours of annual profit
And that $14.25m is supposed to be some kind of record
19 Oct 2021 | 16
Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims
We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this
19 Oct 2021 | 175
US lawmakers give Amazon until November to prove it didn't lie to Congress
This better be a Prime delivery
18 Oct 2021 | 19
Bank manager tricked into handing $35m to scammers using fake 'deep voice' tech
In brief Plus: Microsoft Translator machine learning software now supports over 100 languages
16 Oct 2021 | 26
LinkedIn shutting down in China after mounting government pressure to censor social media content
Try InJobs instead! All the fun of a résumé and no comments allowed
14 Oct 2021 | 21
Report: Apple short of 10 million iPhone 13s this year due to ongoing chip shortage
Broadcomm,Texas Instruments, and more buckling under supply crisis
13 Oct 2021 | 14
Shatner breaks the age barrier, goes where no nonagenarian has gone before with Blue Origin rocket trip
Gives classic monologue upon landing
13 Oct 2021 | 48
EU Commission may extend antitrust probe into Nvidia's $54bn merger with Arm
Investigation to continue into early 2022
13 Oct 2021 | 30
Saturday start for NASA's Lucy probe on its 12-year quest to map Jupiter's Trojan asteroids
Astronomers will be searching for clues on how the Solar System formed
12 Oct 2021 | 13
Astroboffins reckon they've detected four hidden exoplanets by probing distant radio waves
It could help us find more exoplanets far out in the universe
12 Oct 2021 | 10
Behold the Megatron: Microsoft and Nvidia build massive language processor
MT-NLG is a beast that fed on over 4,000 GPUs
12 Oct 2021 | 23
Clearview CEO doubles down, claims biz has now scraped over ten billion social media selfies for surveillance
In brief Plus: DeepMind makes its first profit... by selling to its stablemates
09 Oct 2021 | 25
Judge rejects claims Cloudflare should be held responsible for customers' copyright infringement
'We don’t host the content of the websites at issue'
09 Oct 2021 | 46
Microsoft vows to make its Surface laptops, Xbox kit easier to fix by 2022
Spare parts, repair manuals more easily available in victory for right to repair ... when it happens
08 Oct 2021 | 8
How not to train your Dragon: What happens when you teach an AI game sex-abuse stories then blame players
Feature Next chapter in AI Dungeon saga: Banning gamers for what the bot said
08 Oct 2021 | 96
IBM US staff must be fully vaccinated by December – or go back to bed without pay
And that's regardless of whether they work from home or are in the office
07 Oct 2021 | 130
Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry awarded to boffins studying complex systems, organic catalysts
20m Swedish kronor – close to 2 million quid – to be shared
07 Oct 2021 | 6
Euro Parliament backs ban on cops using blanket facial-recognition surveillance
Majority of MEPs want end to police face-ID'ing anyone and everyone in public, and more
07 Oct 2021 | 19
Google to auto-enroll 150m users, 2m YouTubers with two-factor authentication
Uh, cool?
06 Oct 2021 | 81
