“Believe it or not, if you take a forensic accountant and teach them some cyber, they can become a cybersecurity expert,” says Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centred AI. “There's a lot of skill overlap in those two professions, even though you wouldn't have thought of it without looking at the underlying data.”

Explore the debate surrounding ChatGPT and Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories on the acquisition of language. Discover how language models raise questions about the nature of human language and its innate properties.

New “stealer” malware was spotted this spring. It targets computers running macOS and seeks to steal a lot of information, including cryptocurrency wallets. Its name leaves little doubt as to its targets: computers running macOS. This is what the AMOS malware, an acronym for Atomic macOS Stealer, is aiming for. No need to be perfectly bilingual to guess the purpose of this program: it is to steal information on the victim’s machine.

A former Apple employee will go to prison for a scheme that defrauded the Bay Area-based tech giant of more than $17 million, and he has been ordered to pay for what he stole. Dhirendra Prasad received the three-year prison sentence Wednesday in federal court after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, as well as a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States. The San Jose judge also ordered Prasad to forfeit millions of dollars’ worth of assets and pay restitution: $17,398,104 to Apple and $1,872,579 to the Internal Revenue Service.

E-commerce behemoth, in the midst of aggressively cutting costs including laying-off 27,000 workers, reported revenue growth

This week, the Republican National Committee used artificial intelligence to create a 30-second ad imagining what President Joe Biden's second term might look like. It depicts a string of fictional crises, from a Chinese invasion of Taiwan to the shutdown of the city of San Francisco, illustrated with fake images and news reports. A small disclaimer in the upper left says the video was "Built with AI imagery."

A new report from The Information today goes in-depth on the apparent chaos inside teams at Apple working on Siri and artificial intelligence. According to the story, “organizational dysfunction and a lack of ambition” have plagued Apple’s efforts to improve Siri and the backend technology that powers it.

A new Washington state law will require companies to receive a user’s explicit consent before they can collect, share, or sell their health data. Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the My Health, My Data bill into law on Thursday, giving users the right to withdraw consent at any time and have their data deleted.

A pilot program in Massachusetts will give Airbnb vacation-rental owners $2,500 to install air-source heat pumps and make their properties more energy-efficient.

Siri and Apple's use of AI has been severely held back by caution and organizational dysfunction, according to over three dozen former Apple employees who spoke to The Information's Wayne Ma.

More than half of the enterprise routers researchers bought secondhand hadn’t been wiped, exposing sensitive info like login credentials and customer data.

Apple has once again seen its App Store business model on iPhone affirmed by the courts in its ongoing legal battle with Fortnite developer Epic Games. In a ruling this week the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fell squarely behind the previous ruling of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who oversaw the blockbuster lawsuit in 2021.

Soon, artificial intelligence could help teach your kids and improve their grades. That’s according to billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who says AI chatbots are on track to help children learn to read and hone their writing skills in 18 months time.

USB charging ports are everywhere, and a seemingly handy way for travelers to keep their devices powered up. But earlier this month, the FBI warned consumers against using these charging stations in public places like airports, hotels and shopping malls.

Chromebooks have always been a popular option for schools due to the relatively cheap prices, but they exploded in popularity during the Covid pandemic as kids did their schoolwork from home. However, they may not be such a good deal after all, according to a new report called Chromebook Churn from the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). They found that many Chromebooks purchased just three years ago are already breaking, creating electronic waste and costing taxpayers money.

When it’s not stealing or plagiarizing, generative AI is improving quickly. Images that used to look uncanny now appear more natural and humanly imperfect. But it still struggles with plenty of things. Apparently video game controllers are one of them. Someone asked Midjourney for simple pictures of a person having fun playing video games, and got back some beautiful abominations.

Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops that they could send home with their students. Quite a few turned to Chromebooks. Three years later, the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund concludes in a new report called Chromebook Churn that many of these batches are already beginning to break. That’s potentially costing districts money; PIRG estimates that “doubling the lifespan of Chromebooks could result in $1.8 billion in savings for taxpayers.” It also creates quite a bit of e-waste.

Scientists from Binghamton University have developed a technology for creating batteries with extremely long storage times without losing energy. Calculations show that such a battery can last for at least 100 years in a closed state and will give a charge after activation. The trick is that inside the battery, there are no chemical elements but a living organism - a kind of "spirit of the battery." In fact, the device is more correctly called a biogenerator because energy is generated here when the bacterium Bacillus subtilis begins to create spores.

Colorado-based Biofire Tech is taking orders for a smart gun enabled by facial-recognition technology, the latest development in personalized weapons that can only be fired by verified users.

The Google owner's CEO is only paid an annual salary of $2 million, but has also been given shares every three years worth more than $200 million.