The Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library and operator of the popular Wayback Machine that holds a repository of billions of captures of web pages as they appeared in the past, has come under sustained cyber attack in the form of a significant distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its infrastructure, and a major…
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Several months ago, OpenAI stunned the world with an incredible text-to-video AI tool called Sora. The whole concept is very simple: tell the AI what video to make, and Sora will generate it for you. OpenAI still hasn’t released it to the general public because it’s currently in development. I expected to see Sora released…
Movie Gen is Meta’s new AI video maker, and it may change Instagram and Facebook forever Read More »
Meta hosted its Connect 2024 event on Wednesday, where it detailed its progress with various products, including hardware and software. AI was obviously one of the main topics at the event, but it wasn’t the most exciting one now that the Meta Orion AR glasses are real. That’s right, Meta unveiled its first-gen augmented reality…
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When OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice mode, I was excited to try it. However, it turned out we all had to wait. Back in May, OpenAI simply wanted to beat Google to the punch, which was about to show off similar multimodal powers for Gemini, including a more conversational voice mode.Advanced Voice mode brought more…
Why I still can’t use Advanced Voice Mode even though I pay for ChatGPT Plus Read More »
I’m now on my third day of owning an iPhone 16, but I still haven’t even taken it out of the box.As I said previously, I went with the iPhone 16 Plus this year. I had plenty of reasons to upgrade from my iPhone 14 Pro. Apple Intelligence, the Camera Control button, the larger screen,…
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Remember when Facebook stored some 600 million Facebook account passwords in plaintext and then pretended like it was no big deal? It all went down at some point in 2019. Of note, the passwords were not hacked, though Facebook employees might have had access to them. Still, the EU investigated the security issues, going after…
Meta fined $101.8M for storing 600M Facebook passwords in plain text Read More »
If you were surprised to find an odd-looking Facebook app icon on your iPhone this week, don’t worry—you haven’t been hacked. The black and blue icon you’ve likely seen on social media or on your own iPhone or iPad is not a new look that Facebook is rolling out. On Friday, the social media company…
Facebook’s new black and blue app icon is just a glitch Read More »
When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume that WD was using an in-house controller. But a recent teardown of the drive shows that is not the case; instead, the company is using a…
Workforce reductions are mounting across the tech sector globally as firms attempt to free up more resources for their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. According to tracking website Layoffs.fyi, tech companies laid off more than 165,000 people in 2022 and 264,000 people in 2023, with the latest data showing that 410 tech firms have laid off…
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Your Instagram app is about to get another healthy (or unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) dose of generative AI. Meta wants to let anyone create AI avatars that have the ability to chat with users. If the concept sounds familiar, it’s because we’re looking at Meta’s version of OpenAI’s custom GPTs. Also,…
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