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The Apple II ushered in an age of personal computing, this is its little understood story.

YouTube and Twitter accounts spread rumors about nuclear war after two drones struck the Kremlin.

"If we don’t strike for this right now, the AI technology will advance so quickly that it will no longer be possible to negotiate a fair contract in the context of AI."

Ukraine has denied any connection to the incident and said Russia was planning its own terror attack.

The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work.

Russia is deploying 75 year old tanks to the battlefield and coming up with unique plans to counter the modern ones NATO is sending to the battlefield.

"There's no giant leap of capability," the researchers said.

A crowdfunding campaign led to the development of a turret controlled by a video game console.

A German stock photographer tried to get his photos removed from the AI-training LAION dataset. Lawyers replied that he owes $979 for making an unjustified copyright claim.

The company says its Artificial Intelligence Platform will integrate AI into military decision making in a legal and ethical way.

A student coder used GPT-4 and open-source hardware to create RizzGPT and LifeOS, systems designed to feed you the right line for the right time.

The meme-filled videos spread on Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels, though it's unclear if the Kremlin created them.

Soldiers have seized a biolab containing samples of cholera and the measles in Khartoum.

The phrase 'as an AI language model' is starting to flood Amazon user reviews and Twitter bot accounts.

On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott's voice, and labels are trying to kill it.

A bluetooth speaker or old phone hides simple electronics that can break into almost any car in the world.

Score serious deals on early Way Day teasers, Caraway cookware, and REI bikes.

It’s not like you can give your iPhone a shower—but these tips and tricks will keep all your devices germ-free.

Freelancers say they’re quitting to become ChatGPT whisperers. But is it a legitimate career path, or just another short-lived gold rush?

A private collector just paid more than $500,000 for a digital blue tinged AK-47 and weathered looking knife used in the game ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.’

The Red Cross wants gamers to consider the laws of war when they’re scoring a dub in Call of Duty: Warzone.

"I have a feeling that at least one, if not multiple people on the security side were asleep at the wheel."

A wave of swatting across the U.S. can be traced back to groups selling automated calls online.

Sources told Mission Local that the suspect knew Bob Lee, and also worked in the tech industry, contrary to assumptions many people in tech made about his killer.

A new law in Colorado that will make it easier for farmers to fix their own equipment is the first in the nation.

The video of the bot's 'thought process' is an interesting window into the current state of easily accessible AI tools.

Classified Pentagon documents leaked onto several Discord servers. What's in them and how did this happen?

The leaked documents suggested that a top Kremlin general would sabotage the war while Putin is distracted with cancer treatments.

The characters have developed specific routines, such as waking up, taking a shower, cooking breakfast, interacting with their families, then going to work every day.

An early upload of the leaked Pentagon documents contained a character sheet, but what game was it from? And what can the stats tell us about the person who made it? Motherboard investigates.

This week on Cyber we’re talking about Uber’s glitch screwing drivers, tenants in California unionizing to fight a giant investment firm, and what a public bank might look like.

Here's what some fans had to say as they waited in a five-hour line for concert tickets.

The earliest version of the leaked Pentagon documents online seem to come from a small gaming community forum.

They hope to create an agent that can do a number of tasks on its own, such as developing a website, creating a newsletter, and writing on a Google doc.

Fears of data harvesting and foreign interference are prompting a growing number of Western nations to crack down on the Chinese social media app.

Before his capture by the Taliban, the "danger tourist" was complaining about the soy in his food while boarding a flight to Afghanistan.

Pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky died after opening a package containing a golden statue of himself.

Republican senators are standing up to a major threat to the nation.

Fake historical photos, demands to stop the development of AI, and early fears of sentience mark a banner week in hype over artificial intelligence.

A prominent AI theorist penned an op-ed calling for the end of AI research backed up by airstrikes and the threat of nuclear war.

The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models.

A group of Ukrainian hacktivists say they've hacked the accounts of a Russian colonel.

The principal of a charter school in Florida resigned after falling for a scammer posing as Elon Musk.

The Drug Enforcement Agency is bribing employees to help it seize drugs and money, skipping the complicated process of obtaining a warrant.

The letter has been signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and leading AI researchers, but many experts and even signatories disagreed.

The underpaid workers on platforms like Mechanical Turk who train AI models could be replaced by those same systems.

According to a new report, Russia’s facial recognition systems are powered by American technologies.

A Norwegian arms company had said that TikTok servers' electricity demands are keeping it from producing artillery shells for the war in Ukraine.

A programmer in Singapore has gotten the AI model running on a IBM 5155 Portable PC.

Never heard of the Great Cascadia 9.1 Earthquake of 2001, or the USSR's Blue Plague Incident? That's because they never happened.