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North Korea made millions from the scheme.

Opinions are mixed on the retraction, and the authors continue to defend their work.

Update also blocks compatibility with popular third-party apps.

Sources say new model combines o3 reasoning with general GPT capabilities.

Descent is a big part of gaming history, but not many people talk about it.

Lawmakers want to prevent companies from using AI to increase prices or lower wages.

Individual prompts don't cost much, but billions together can have aggregate impact.

This all-electric enduro monster needs a little more time in the oven.

Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2.8 million weekly downloads.

A lack of medical training isn't stopping a man from charging $20,000 for the treatment.

FCC now has never-before-seen controls" over a newsroom, commissioner warns.

Gravel is even more fun when cleanup is a breeze.

The updated compact sedan packs personality into an accessible package.

China's Space Pioneer seems to be back on track a year after an accidental launch.

Eliminating the Block 1B upgrade now would save NASA at least $500 million per year.

"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.

Criminals who get caught are, unsurprisingly, not always great at opsec.

The Web Guide experiment is available as an opt-in feature today.

"TikTok is going to go dark," commerce secretary warns as negotiations falter.

Trump plans to use chatbots to eliminate dissent, senator alleged.

Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions.

"Some people just don't learn from experience; they fail to realize their own behavior is causing the problem."

Customers will get patches at unspecified "later date," Broadcom says.

Dozens of games deleted with no advance notice, thousands more hidden by "deindexing."

Here are some things you can kick the tires on if you install the public beta.

Public beta arrives today; here's what we've found in our weeks of testing.

These versions are still betas, but they should be mostly OK for day-to-day use.

The group wants a task force that no health secretary has set up since 1998.

Trump's "AI Action Plan" reverses regulations, sparks critical pushback.

"This is going to really help us understand how to predict space weather in the magnetosphere."

"Easy to throw around numbers, but this is a gigantic infrastructure project."

Tesla remains profitable, but the headwinds don't look good.

LeFay spearheaded Arena and Daggerfall before passing the torch to Todd Howard.

Easy to exploit. Unauthenticated access. Massive reach. ToolShell has it all.

Massive 2023 hack was easily preventable, Clorox says.

Google is making video AI models harder to ignore.

Intercepted Jabber messages lead to arrest of suspected admin of cybercrime hub.

Trump gutting NSF will forfeit scientific leadership to China, letter of dissent says.

"Basically, I've been given 60 days to come up with the objective architecture."

You can add older devices to a new plan, even if they're not already covered.

Rules will include EU-style curbs on app stores.

We also test out the more powerful S6 Sportback.

Only a handful of the V12 convertibles will come to the US each year.

Possible legal paths to revive a shuttered video series on TikTok and Instagram.

EFF says the "mass surveillance scheme" violates constitutional protections.

Apple disabled news summaries earlier this year after they mangled headlines.

Gordon Pennycook: "It might be one of the biggest false consensus effects that's been observed."

Go shark fishing on the RV Garvin, get hooked on the ideas behind it.

"Complete farce": State lawmaker says US threatened to block broadband funding.

The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.