Pick and Choose Microsoft “cherrypicked” examples of its generative AI’s output in pitches to potential customers, Business Insider reports. The scoop comes from leaked audio of an internal presentation on an early version of Microsoft’s Security Copilot, a ChatGPT-like AI tool designed to help cybersecurity professionals. According to BI, a Microsoft researcher giving the presentation […]
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Production Hell It’s looking increasingly likely that Tesla will face some serious trouble with the production of its recently announced Cybertruck — and we’re not talking about the pickup’s highly unusual bulletproof stainless steel exoskeleton or massive glass panels. As Tesla insiders told Reuters, the EV maker’s main bottleneck when it comes to building the […]
Google has been under siege by search engine optimization (SEO) spammers who are abusing flaws in it search engine into rank a deluge of junk pages for hundreds of thousands of keywords, Search Engine Journal reports, in what is yet another hair-graying example of “This, in my opinion, is partly the fault of Google, who […]
Face Off When companies and organizations use facial recognition technology for surveillance or security, the results are inaccurate enough that they lead to disastrous outcomes. Case in point is big drug chain Rite Aid, which used faulty facial recognition tech in their stores to combat shoplifting but instead ended up antagonizing and traumatizing shoppers, according […]
After embarking on its third mission, China’s top-secret spaceplane dubbed Shenlong has released six mysterious objects into Earth’s orbit — and we have no idea what they are. On December 14, the country launched its reusable spaceplane from the Gobi Desert, as local news agency Xinhua reported at the time. According to the brief […]
A trio of Stanford graduate students have made a powerful AI that can guess the location of any photo with remarkable accuracy. For all its potentially very useful applications, though, it sounds like a privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Known as Predicting Image Geolocations (PIGEON), the AI uses a custom data set of Google Street […]