A.I. Video Is Threatening Our Ability to Trust Documentaries
A combination of technological developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer and filmmaker. What’s at stake is history itself.
Category: Tech
5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs
Five men have pleaded guilty to running laptop farms and providing other assistance to North Koreans to obtain remote IT work at US companies in
UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks
On Friday, a US District Court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the United States government from halting federal funding at UCLA or any other school
Microsoft fixes Windows 10 update flaw
It didn’t take long for some IT leaders who last month started paying to get Windows 10 security updates to face their first support problem.
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus move seen as a rethinking of AI IT strategy
When reports came out on Monday that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is pouring $6.2 billion into another AI startup, to be called Project Prometheus, analysts
Nvidia’s new AI physics model can help design chips and a whole lot more
Nvidia hopes that its new open-source AI model for physics, Apollo, will find application in a wide variety of high-tech scientific and industrial fields. It
Agentic AI – Ongoing coverage of its impact on the enterprise
Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work
Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants
When the Trump administration brutally cut federal funding for biomedical research earlier this year, at least 383 clinical trials that were already in progress were
With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again
Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s richest and most famous tech CEOs, but he hasn’t actually been a CEO of anything since 2021. That’s
Europe Begins Rethinking Its Crackdown on Big Tech
European policymakers are crafting changes to scale back and simplify landmark rules for A.I. and data privacy, in a shift from an aggressive regulatory period.
AI agents make bad e-commerce customers
Last week, Amazon and Perplexity had a major falling out when the e-commerce giant sent a sharply worded legal demand letter to the AI company
Apple preps for iPhone diversification
Once upon a time, Apple introduced a new iPhone every year. These days, in some years it introduces five of them. Have we reached saturation point? Possibly.
Snapchat Opens Valdi Framework to Developers After 8 Years of Internal Use
Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, has open-sourced Valdi, a cross-platform mobile UI framework. The social media company typically keeps its technology in-house, but this
When recreating a famous SUV stunt in China goes wrong
Be careful with your marketing stunts around national landmarks. That should be the take-home message from Chery Automobile’s recent attempt to measure itself up against