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Massive leak shows Chinese firm hacked foreign govts, activists: analysts

22Feb

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Massive leak shows Chinese firm hacked foreign govts, activists: analysts

[ad_1] A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed.The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private company that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen governments, according to cybersecurity firms SentinelLabs and Malwarebytes. I-Soon also breached "democracy organisations" in China's semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong, universities and the NATO military alliance, SentinelLabs researchers wrote in a blog post Wednesday. The leaked data, the contents of which AFP was unable to immediately verify, was posted last week on the online software repository GitHub by an unknown individual."The leak...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools

9Feb

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools

[ad_1] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged in a speech to more than a thousand Indian computer code developers on Thursday that they use the company's artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products. Speaking in Bengaluru, India's “Silicon Valley,” Nadella noted that more than 13.2 million Indian developers are currently on GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, second only to the number from the United States, and that India is likely to move into first place by 2027 or 2028. He did not elaborate.Microsoft is building its fourth data center in India near the city of Hyderabad, where Nadella grew up. It already has data centers in Mumbai, Pune and Chennai. Nadella will visit Hyderabad before returning to the United States. “Our investments here obvi...

Elon Musk says He’ll help fund AI effort to decipher Roman Scrolls

8Feb

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Elon Musk says He’ll help fund AI effort to decipher Roman Scrolls

[ad_1] Elon Musk will provide financial support to a project using artificial intelligence to digitally unfurl ancient scrolls that'd been unreadable for centuries. Bloomberg Businessweek reported this week on a breakthrough in the project, which is known as the Vesuvius Challenge and run by Nat Friedman, the former chief executive officer of GitHub. A group of contestants successfully took scans of scrolls from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which had been charred by the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii, and used AI to read entire paragraphs from them. The Musk Foundation, the billionaire's charitable arm, will offer the funding, Musk wrote in a post to his social network X on Wednesday. In a message to Bloomberg, Musk said he didn't know how much he'll contribute. “Whatever amou...

Apple quietly releases new machine learning framework; Will it also join the AI war?

7Dec

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Apple quietly releases new machine learning framework; Will it also join the AI war?

[ad_1] Yesterday, Google declared its big artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions after its DeepMind division unveiled the company's largest AI model Gemini, which is a multimodal foundation model, to the world. However, it wasn't the only tech company to make a big move towards AI. In order not to be left behind, Apple looks to have joined the AI war that is currently raging in Big Tech by releasing a new machine learning (ML) framework called MLX, but without much fanfare. Many reports are now suggesting that Apple can use this framework to build its own AI foundation models, something that was rumored earlier this year.According to a report by The Verge, MLX is “a machine learning framework where developers can build models that run efficiently on Apple Silicon and deep learning model...

AI excitement turns to pain for Big Tech as profits hard to come by; check out the numbers

10Oct

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AI excitement turns to pain for Big Tech as profits hard to come by; check out the numbers

[ad_1] Ever since the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI), many experts have highlighted the potential problems with this technology, ranging from misinformation to the destruction of humans through superintelligence AI. However, many failed to see the most critical problem with AI, one that is proving to be destructive to its own growth – the economics of scale. As per reports, major tech firms are struggling to turn their AI businesses into profit despite the massive excitement from consumers as it is very costly to keep AI products operational.According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, AI tools which are unproven in terms of market durability, can be quite expensive to run as they require robust servers with expensive chips that consume lots of power. In particul...

OpenAI’s offer to stop web crawler comes too late

26Aug

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OpenAI’s offer to stop web crawler comes too late

[ad_1] Earlier this month, in response to mounting criticism around how OpenAI scoops up data to train ChatGPT, its groundbreaking chatbot, the company made it possible for websites to block it from scraping their content. A short piece of code would tell OpenAI to go away (and it would kindly obey).Since then, hundreds of sites have shut the door. A Google search reveals many of them: Major online properties such as Amazon, Airbnb, Glassdoor and Quora have added the code to their “robots.txt” file, a kind of rules of engagement for the many bots — or spiders as they are also known — that scour the internet. When I got in touch with the companies, none were willing to discuss their reasoning, but it's quite obvious: They want to put a stop to OpenAI taking content that doesn't belong to...

Big boost for users, Bluesky Social open-sources codebase

18May

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Big boost for users, Bluesky Social open-sources codebase

[ad_1] Bluesky Social, a popular beta social network, has taken a significant step towards open-source development on May 15th that will benefit users immensely. The codebase for its Bluesky Social app was made available on GitHub. This aligns with the network's goal of being "open and decentralised." Unlike Twitter, which struggles with open-source issues, Bluesky's client code is open to anyone for improvement or as a foundation for their own social networks. In contrast, Twitter's recommendation code is essentially unusable. Bluesky offers its client code to anyone interested in enhancing it or utilising it as the foundation for their own social network. The code for Bluesky, which is licensed under the MIT License, is available for use now. In just 24 hours, it has already been for...

Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub

30Mar

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Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub

[ad_1] Alphabet Inc.'s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software from startup Replit Inc. that helps computer programmers write code, a bid to compete with a similar product from Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub and OpenAI.Replit, which has 20 million users, said its Ghostwriter app will rely on Google's language-generation AI to improve its ability to suggest blocks of code, complete programs and answer developer questions. Google Cloud Vice President June Yang declined to specify which language AI products Replit will use, noting that it's a customized combination of systems that address different tasks like chat and code-generation. Previously, Replit built the product with its own AI. Google “has much better technology than most pe...

Microsoft’s GitHub to Add OpenAI Chat Functions to Coding Tool

23Mar

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Microsoft’s GitHub to Add OpenAI Chat Functions to Coding Tool

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools — an app called Copilot that helped software developers write computer code. Now GitHub is adding a chat and voice feature that will let programmers ask how to accomplish certain coding tasks.The new version announced Wednesday is called Copilot X, which GitHub Chief Executive Officer Thomas Dohmke said he demonstrated to one of his children by asking it how to program a snake game in Python. The chat window can provide explanations of what segments of code are meant to do, create ways to test the code and propose fixes for bugs. Developers can also give instructions or ask questions using their voice. GitHub first previewed Copilot in 2021 and widely released...

Microsoft Wants AI To Change Your Job—If It Can Work Out the Kinks

1Nov

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Microsoft Wants AI To Change Your Job—If It Can Work Out the Kinks

[ad_1] Microsoft believes its artificial intelligence tools are poised to reshape ‘thousands’ of professions. There are just a few legal and ethical hazards The most hyped words in tech today may be “generative AI.” The term describes artificially intelligent technology that can generate art, or text or code, directed by prompts from a user. The concept was made famous this year by Dall-E, a program capable of creating a fantastic range of artistic images on command. Now a new program from Microsoft Corp., GitHub Copilot, seeks to transform the technology from internet sensation into something broadly useful. Earlier this year, Microsoft-owned GitHub widely released the artificial intelligence tool to work alongside computer programmers. As they type, Copilot suggests snippets of c...