August 10, 2023 Americans are worried about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) and support federal regulation to control those risks, according to a new poll by the Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute. In this survey, where the views more...
August 10, 2023 The Defense Department is offering a $18.5 million prize to cybersecurity professionals who can develop innovative AI tools to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. The two-year challenge, called the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), will be more...
August 10, 2023 Social media platforms are structured to reward users for posting eye-catching material, whether correct or damaging. This has the potential to disseminate disinformation and other dangerous things. However, according to Ian Anderson, Gizem Ceyland, and more...
August 10, 2023 Zoom has backtracked on its policy of using user calls to train its AI models, after facing backlash from users who were concerned about their privacy. The company had previously said that it could use more...
August 9, 2023 Apple's first iPod, a mint-condition model that was purchased in 2001 and never opened, sold for $29,000 on the collectibles investing platform Rally last week. The iPod was originally bought for $399 at the Willowbrook more...
August 9, 2023 OpenAI has announced plans to use its web crawler, GPTBot, to assist publishers and site owners in controlling their content. "Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future more...
August 8, 2023 XKool, a Chinese firm, is using AI to automate the whole building design process, from establishing masterplans to preparing construction drawings. In China, the app has over 50,000 users, and an English version of its more...
August 1, 2023 Voyager 2, NASA's 46-year-old spacecraft, is now incommunicado after its antenna pointed in the wrong direction. The space agency revealed that the spacecraft's antenna has been misaligned, pointing two degrees away from Earth for more more...
July 28, 2023 Former U.S. Navy pilots and an intelligence officer testified before Congress that they have witnessed extraordinary UFOs, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) as they are now officially called. David Fravor, Ryan Graves, and David Grusch more...
July 28, 2023 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to boost the minimum broadband speeds in the United States to 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up. The current standard is 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up. FCC Chairwoman Jessica more...
