Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) Over the past week, OpenAI experienced a significant leadership shake-up as three key figures announced major changes. Greg Brockman, the company’s president and co-founder, is taking an extended sabbatical until the end of the year, while another co-founder, John Schulman, permanently departed for rival Anthropic. Peter Deng, VP…
Deep within Apple’s systems is a variety of instructions it has given to its GenAI Apple Intelligence mechanism. The screen captures of those instructions provide a peek into Apple’s efforts to influence its GenAI deployment, and also illustrate the steep challenges in controlling an algorithm that is simply trying to guess answers. The more explicit…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Students in Singapore are scrambling after a security breach wiped notes and all other data from school-issued iPads and Chromebooks running the mobile device management app Mobile Guardian. According to news reports, the mass wiping came as a shock to multiple students in Singapore, where the Mobile Guardian app has been…
Google has released a new batch of security fixes that close 46 vulnerabilities in Android; the most serious flaw is found in the kernel and has the designation CVE-2024-36971, according to Bleeping Computer. The vulnerability has reportedly been actively exploited by hackers for some time, which makes it especially important to install the security fixes as…
Enlarge (credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer and Speaker) Hackers delivered malware to Windows and Mac users by compromising their Internet service provider and then tampering with software updates delivered over unsecure connections, researchers said. The attack, researchers from security firm Volexity said, worked by hacking routers or similar types of device infrastructure of an unnamed…
Enlarge / LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JULY 23: Travelers from France wait on their delayed flight on the check-in floor of the Delta Air Lines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images) CrowdStrike has hit back at Delta Air Lines’ threat of litigation…
Enlarge / AI-generated image by FLUX.1 dev: “A beautiful queen of the universe holding up her hands, face in the background.” (credit: FLUX.1) On Thursday, AI-startup Black Forest Labs announced the launch of its company and the release of its first suite of text-to-image AI models, called FLUX.1. The German-based company, founded by researchers who…
After two years of massive layoffs at IT companies, 2024 was expected to be a year of recovery for the IT industry. While there are early signs of that, with global IT spending expected to increase 8% to cross $5.1 trillion in 2024 according to Gartner, jobs continue to be impacted in the sector. Some…
Enlarge (credit: Maria Korneeva via Getty Images) On Wednesday, US Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R.-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act of 2024. The bipartisan legislation, up for consideration in the US Senate, aims to protect individuals from unauthorized…
Even though Microsoft invested $13 billion in OpenAI, the relationship between the two companies has deteriorated significantly in recent months. Microsoft has decided to put OpenAI on its list of competitors, due to the fact that the companies are now competing with each other in terms of both artificial intelligence and online search. (OpenAI last…