Bipartisan Bill Denies Section 230 Protection for AI

Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet's bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI, per ...

Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell Resigns

Logitech made a major announcement this week, revealing that Bracken Darrell, the company's president and CEO, will be leaving to pursue...

Google Is Weaving Generative AI Into Online Shopping Features

Google is bringing generative AI technology to shopping, aiming to get a jump on e-commerce sites like Amazon. From a report: The Alphabet-o...

Microsoft Now Sells Surface Replacement Parts Including Displays Batteries and SSDs

Microsoft is starting to sell replacement components for its Surface devices. The software giant now supplies replacement parts in the Micro...

Fed Pauses Rate Hikes But Signals More Tightening To Come

Federal Reserve officials paused on Wednesday following 15 months of interest-rate hikes but signaled they would likely resume tightening to...

Amazon Using Generative AI To Summarize Product Reviews

Amazon is turning to artificial intelligence to help users find the right product. From a report: The e-retailer recently began testing a fe...

Meta Releases 'Human-Like' AI Image Creation Model

Meta said on Tuesday that it would provide researchers with access to components of a new "human-like" artificial intelligence mod...

Nature Bans AI-generated Art From Its 153-Year-Old Science Journal

Renowned scientific journal Nature has announced in an editorial that it will not publish images or video created using generative AI tools....

UK Communications Regulator Ofcom Says Hackers Stole Confidential Data

The hackers responsible for the MOVEit cyberattack downloaded confidential information from UK communications regulator Ofcom about companie...

Ex-Samsung Executive Accused of Stealing Secrets for China Chip Factory

A former executive at South Korea's Samsung Electronics was indicted on Monday on suspicion of stealing company technology for a copy-ca...

Does the New 'Mojo' Programming Language Offer a Faster Superset of Python?

InfoWorld explores how the new Mojo program language "resembles Python, how it's different, and what it has to offer." The new...

Cause and Cure Discovered for a Common Type of High Blood Pressure

Researchers at a London-based public research university had already discovered that for 5-10% of people with hypertension, the cause is a g...

NASA Researchers Think (Microbial) Life Could Survive on the Moon

In less than two years, NASA plans to have astronauts walking on the moon again — the first time in over half a century. "And one poten...

Is Self-Healing Code the Future of Software Development?

We already have automated processes that detect bugs, test solutions, and generate documentation, notes a new post on Stack Overflow's b...

'Extremely Remorseful' Lawyers Confronted by Judge Over 'Legal Gibberish' Citations from ChatGPT

The Associated Press reports: Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tri...

Linux Foundation Announces Collaboration for 'Open Radio Access Network' Prototypes

This week the Linux Foundation and the National Spectrum Consortium "announced formal collaboration" on developing software protot...

Ted Kaczynski, Known as the 'Unabomber,' has Died in Prison at Age 81

Because he targeted universities and airlines, the FBI had dubbed him the Unabomber, reports the Associated Press: Theodore "Ted" ...

CNN Sees 'Escalating Battle' Over Returning to the Office at Tech Companies

CNN explores tech-company efforts to curtail remote working. "Salesforce is trying to lure staff into offices by offering to donate $10...

Congress To Consider Two New Bills On AI

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. senators on Thursday introduced two separate bipartisan artificial intelligence bills...

Netflix Password Crackdown Drives US Sign-Ups To Highest Levels In At Least Four Years

According to research company Antenna, Netflix's password crackdown in the U.S. has resulted in the "four single largest days of U....