NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s prediction about digital AI assistants might have just come true with ChatGPT’s new Advanced Voice Mode feature. OpenAI has shipped this feature to select ChatGPT Plus users, allowing them to access a $20 monthly subscription. The feature was delayed by one month to address safety concerns and improve the model’s ability … Read more
South Korea has developed a new laser weapon designed to neutralize enemy drones, which was showcased by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) on July 30. The system uses fiber optics to generate an invisible directed- energy beam that heats the target’s surface to temperatures exceeding 700°C, effectively disabling internal components like batteries. During the … Read more
Several weeks after being sued for copyright infringement, AI music startups Suno and Udio are now accusing the record labels that filed the lawsuits of trying to stifle competition in the music industry. Both companies admit to training their AI models on copyrighted materials, arguing it’s lawful under fair-use doctrine. The Recording Industry Association of … Read more
Nowadays, cars use batteries and motors to move, but this way is inefficient because overcoming friction and gravity takes most energy. Japan has a solution: magnetic levitation. Will magnetic levitation replace batteries and motors? Researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) created a track that provides magnetic levitation without external power. By “external … Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Not long ago, it was hard to create 3D images. Now, Stability AI has developed a new technology called Stable Fast 3D that can generate 3D images from a single image quickly. Stable Fast 3D is … Read more
Cybersecurity companies have noticed an increase in the misuse of Cloudflare’s TryCloudflare free service for delivering malware. This involves creating a temporary tunnel using TryCloudflare to send traffic from an attacker-controlled server to a local machine through Cloudflare’s infrastructure. The malicious activity has been observed delivering various types of malware, including AsyncRAT, GuLoader, PureLogs Stealer, … Read more
New scientific understanding and engineering techniques have always impressed and frightened us. OpenAI recently announced that it anticipates “superintelligence” – AI surpassing human abilities – this decade. It is accordingly building a new team, and devoting 20% of its computing resources to ensuring that the behavior of such AI systems will be aligned with human … Read more
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Siri Bug Enables Data Theft on Locked Apple Devices Apple has released updates for its products to fix recent vulnerabilities found in Siri, the digital assistant. These bugs could allow attackers to steal information from a locked device. When a device is locked, voice commands can still be processed by Siri, which may give access … Read more
Pakudyptes hakataramea was a small penguin that lived in New Zealand around 24 million years ago. It was about the same size as the little blue penguin, which is the smallest species of penguin in the world. The new species had adaptations that allowed it to dive and swim. The shape of its wing bones … Read more