Smart gardening firm’s shutdown a reminder of Internet of Things’ fickle nature
AeroGarden, which sells Wi-Fi-connected indoor gardening systems, is going out of business on January 1....
2024
People think they already know everything they need to make decisions
The world is full of people who have excessive confidence in their own abilities. This...
Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.
What if there was a way to sneak malicious instructions into Claude, Copilot, or other...
Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence—experts want it to stop
Has your dentist ever told you that it’s recommended to get routine dental X-rays every...
The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online
The Internet Archive has brought its Wayback Machine back online “in a provisional, read-only manner”...
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age...
Expert witness used Copilot to make up fake damages, irking judge
A New York judge recently called out an expert witness for using Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot...
Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities...
Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content
On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can...
NASA launches mission to explore the frozen frontier of Jupiter’s moon Europa
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a...