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In a speech on Saturday night, Putin said he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus.

Denmark is dredging up an object near Nord Stream that might be a "maritime smoke buoy."

The CEO of TikTok just testified on Capitol Hill. It was a shitshow.

The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations.

The Congressional TikTok hearing is a shitshow of conflicting interests and ignorant assertions about how fundamental parts of the internet have worked for decades.

It would also be an act of charity for Facebook, which the government has utterly failed to meaningfully regulate.

Ticketmaster and The Cure tried to stop ticket brokers, but they may have just made it worse.

The U.K. announced its sending depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine, a weapon that has irradiated battlefields from Iraq to Bosnia.

Open-source intelligence groups say the T-54, a tank built in the 1940s, is being shipped to the front.

"The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of AI companies."

“I would side with the Justice Department in this case.”

The FCC is using its new powers to ask from the maximum fine from an Ecuadorian pirate radio station that's run for more than 15 years.

Jensen Huang joked about becoming a robot and running NVIDIA well into the future during a recent interview.

The M1910 has been used in WW1, the Russian Civil War, and WWII. Now Ukraine is using it to defend Bakhmut.

The for-profit AI company argues that its products will automate a vast swath of Americans' job tasks.

GPT-4 "saves a lot of time and a lot of money, obviously, because we haven't had to hire additional resources."

On Facebook, a representative for the Libyan National Army says it found 2.5 tonnes of missing uranium near Chad.

America’s State Department issues a statement accusing Russia of violating a treaty that Moscow said no longer applies to them.

A series of train disasters in the U.S. reflect a broken system.

GPT-4 is OpenAI's most secretive release thus far, and AI researchers are warning about the potential consequences.

An article critical of misinformation in the Oscar winning documentary cited AI-written PDFs as its sources.

Silicon Valley's favorite banks are dead. Why is the government stepping in to prop them up?

In testimony before Congress, a Pentagon scientist laid out the threat of Beijing's hypersonic weapons.

We scoped out five sleep trackers that will give you deep insights on your noggin while you’re counting sheep in la la land.

The MUTANT missile will morph mid-air, allowing it to chase down targets more efficiently.

TotalBiscuit’s fans are preparing for the possibility that his entire channel will be scrubbed to prevent more AI voice models.

Moscow launched a barrage of missiles at Ukraine on Thursday, which included some of its advanced hypersonic missiles.

This week on Cyber we look at the insecure hiking app tracking a former Biden official across D.C., LastPass’s latest breach, Twitter ditching Tor, and ‘Escape from Tarkov’s wiggle problem.

Building on recent AI advancements to allow robots to complete tasks autonomously in the real world is a "major step forward," researchers say.

Russia is running out of ammunition, and some of its troops are relying on an iconic 19th century weapon of war.

The amateur ballooning community has experienced a wave of interest after the U.S. went on a balloon killing spree.

The site reminds us of the limitations of AI—how AI-generated images are very stiff and easy-to-spot, but also biased in many ways.

In a new low for the billionaire, Musk insinuated a former employee's disability was exaggerated and said he "did no actual work."

America’s Guardians have purchased two autonomous tractors to maintain the lawn at its base in Florida.

Ukraine has deployed a weapons system so advanced that the country who makes it doesn’t even have one yet.

Researchers found that they could reconstruct high-resolution images from brain activity.

The researchers found that a text prompt hidden in an open browser tab can cause the chatbot to take on whatever persona the attacker desires.

Shock sites shaped the way we use the internet.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia wouldn't test new nuclear weapons unless America did it first.

AI chatbots could challenge China’s censorship apparatus and iron grip on information flow, experts say.

Musk is adding himself to the chatbot arms race, with plans to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, which he derided as being too "woke."

It has a 4.6-star rating and *drum roll please* over 29,700 reviews on Amazon.

By posing as Tate, Dr. Reality hopes to make a buck.

Operators will use the tech on small drones to help them with intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, and identifying targets.

Researchers developed a simple way to exploit a computer's understanding of the game so that even an amateur can win.

Xiaohongshu captured an estimated 15 percent of China’s online e-commerce market, and now, it seems, ByteDance is trying to tap into this market too.

I spent a day recording videos in front of a green screen and reading all types of scripts to create a digital clone of myself that can say anything I want her to using a platform called Synthesia.

A flurry of lawsuits over the development and use of AI tools can have huge implications on the creative process and intellectual property ownership.

“We don't have a solution for the problem. We have some ideas for minimizing it, but the problem isn't going away," the editor of Clarkesworld said.

As generative language models become more accessible, easier to scale, and write more persuasive text, they could be used to spread disinformation.