VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed multiple copies of VMware products without buying a license. VMware filed the lawsuit (PDF) on March 21 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware,…
Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and downtime. Despite configuring standard defensive measures—adjusting robots.txt, blocking known crawler user-agents, and filtering suspicious traffic—Iaso found that AI crawlers continued evading all attempts to stop them, spoofing user-agents…
The global backlash against the second Donald Trump administration keeps on growing. Canadians have boycotted US-made products, anti–Elon Musk posters have appeared across London amid widespread Tesla protests, and European officials have drastically increased military spending as US support for Ukraine falters. Dominant US tech services may be the next focus. There are early signs…
On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for AlexNet, the convolutional neural network (CNN) that many credit with transforming the AI field in 2012 by proving that “deep learning” could achieve things conventional AI techniques could not. Deep learning, which uses multi-layered neural networks that can learn from…
On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called “AI Labyrinth” that aims to combat unauthorized AI data scraping by serving fake AI-generated content to bots. The tool will attempt to thwart AI companies that crawl websites without permission to collect training data for large language models that power AI assistants like ChatGPT….
On Thursday, Anthropic introduced web search capabilities for its AI assistant Claude, enabling the assistant to access current information online. Previously, the latest AI model that powers Claude could only rely on data absorbed during its neural network training process, having a “knowledge cutoff” of October 2024. Claude’s web search is currently available in feature…
If you want to understand why making it impossible to encrypt your iCloud data is a huge invitation to organized crime, I have two stories to share. The first involves a surveillance-as-a-service firm getting pwned, the second relates to a new wave of phishing focused malware migrating from Windows to macOS. These twin tales emerge…
I live in the future, at least as far as language translation technology is concerned. During the past couple of months, I’ve spent most of my time in Italy and Mexico. During all that time, I understood Italian and Spanish — thanks to the Live Translation feature of my Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Announced in September, “Live…
An industry generative artificial intelligence (genAI) alliance, the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), on Wednesday announced that xAI, Nvidia, GE Vernova, and NextEra Energy were joining BlackRock, Microsoft, and Global Infrastructure Partners as members. But given that the announcement specified no financial commitments or any other details, analysts doubted it would make much of a difference….
A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on average for humor, creativity, and “shareability” than those made by people. Even so, people still created the most exceptional individual examples. The research, which will be presented at the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces,…