Software Development

 Partying robots spark debate about accuracy of Musk’s “biggest product ever of any kind” vision.  [[{“value”:” Two years ago, Tesla’s Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully controlled stage presentation. Last night, Tesla’s “We, Robot” event featured much more advanced Optimus prototypes that could walk around …

Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys? Read More »

 AMD CEO Lisa Su on the MI325X: “This is the beginning, not the end of the AI race.”  [[{“value”:” On Thursday, AMD announced its new MI325X AI accelerator chip, which is set to roll out to data center customers in the fourth quarter of this year. At an event hosted in San Francisco, the company …

AMD unveils powerful new AI chip to challenge Nvidia Read More »

 On the discussion agenda: Privacy, compliance, and making infrastructure smarter.  [[{“value”:” After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on our nation’s capital. If you’re on the East Coast and want to come hang out with Ars EIC Ken Fisher and me while we …

Join Ars in DC for infrastructure, cocktails, and spycraft on October 29 Read More »

 31 million records containing email addresses and passwords hashes exposed.  [[{“value”:” Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to preserve the entire history of the Internet, was recently compromised in a hack that revealed data of roughly 31 million users. A little after 2 PM California time, social media blew up with screenshots showing what …

Archive.org, a repository storing the entire history of the Internet, has been hacked Read More »

 With China’s AI video generators pushing memes into weird territory, it was time to test one out.  [[{“value”:” If 2022 was the year AI image generators went mainstream, 2024 has arguably been the year that AI video synthesis models exploded in capability. These models, while not yet perfect, can generate new videos from text descriptions called …

Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test Read More »

 It’s hard enough creating one air-gap-jumping tool. GoldenJackal did it 2x in 5 years.  [[{“value”:” Researchers have unearthed two sophisticated toolsets that a nation-state hacking group—possibly from Russia—used to steal sensitive data stored on air-gapped devices, meaning those that are deliberately isolated from the Internet or other networks to safeguard them from malware. One of …

Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices Read More »

 Hinton, who quit Google in 2023 to warn of AI dangers, was “flabbergasted” at the news.  [[{“value”:” On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto for their foundational work in machine learning …

In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize Read More »

 App swears there’s no way for law enforcement to track users’ identities.  [[{“value”:” Dozens of neo-Nazis are fleeing Telegram and moving to a relatively unknown secret chat app that has received funding from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. In a report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue published on Friday morning, researchers found that in the …

Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram Read More »

 New side-by-side document and code-editing feature catches up with Anthropic’s Artifacts.  [[{“value”:” On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled Canvas, a new interface for ChatGPT designed to enhance collaboration on writing and coding projects. The feature bears similarities to a feature called Artifacts in Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant, introduced in June. Canvas displays content in a separate window …

OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click Read More »

 A future where realistic video fakes are easy and plentiful seems inevitable.  [[{“value”:” On Friday, Meta announced a preview of Movie Gen, a new suite of AI models designed to create and manipulate video, audio, and images, including creating a realistic video from a single photo of a person. The company claims the models outperform …

Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo Read More »