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Alaska’s Pleasant Island was originally wolf-free and home to deer and the once-threatened sea otter. But starting in 2013, wolves have been there for extended periods, and they are thought to have swum across from a nearby continent. The researchers believe the wolves wiped out the island’s deer, which may have left or starved to […]

A group of anonymous developers recently filed a class-action lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft (the parent company) and OpenAI (the technology provider), accusing GitHub’s AI programming assistant GitHub Copilot of engaging in large-scale software piracy. Copilot uses the public code base for training, and when developers write code, it automatically completes the follow-up code according to

Silicon Valley technology companies have laid off tens of thousands of workers in the past few weeks, and auto companies such as General Motors have taken the opportunity to recruit talent to accelerate the development of in-vehicle software. General Motors eased a hiring freeze to hire software developers and engineers for its Ultifi software platform.

The frequency of ransomware attacks has not changed significantly in 2022, but as more and more victims refuse to pay the ransom, the ransomware income of extortionists has decreased significantly. Chainalysis’ tracking of wallet addresses associated with ransomware attacks shows victims paying $457 million in ransoms in 2022, compared to $766 million in 2021. When

The sci-fi film “Avatar: Way of Water” directed by James Cameron broke through 2.075 billion US dollars at the global box office this week, surpassing the 2.071 billion US dollars of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, ranking fourth in history, second only to Cameron directed three of the top four films, including “Avatar,” “Avengers: Endgame”

Google demonstrated an AI system that generates music from text descriptions, but the search giant has no plans to release the AI ​​due to potential risks. Google’s AI system is called MusicLM. Similar AI music systems include Riffusion, Dance Diffusion, Google’s own AudioML and OpenAI’s Jukebox. No AI system has previously been able to compose

Over the past few weeks, journal editors, researchers and publishers have debated the appropriateness of listing the AI ​​chatbot ChatGPT as an author. ChatGPT can generate convincing sentences by imitating the huge text it was trained on, and it can write abstracts of papers that can fool even professional researchers. But journal publishers all agree

Amazon is making a Tomb Raider TV series. The project is in its early stages, and viewers are unlikely to see it anytime soon. Amazon will also publish Crystal Dynamics’ new Tomb Raider game, a move that represents a further investment in the IP. Tomb Raider will be written by, but will not star in,

Austrian police revealed this week that a Dutch hacker, arrested in November, stole and sold the personal data of nearly all Austrians, including full names, genders, full addresses and dates of birth. The hacker sold the data on a hacking forum in May 2020, and the dataset has been confirmed authentic by investigators. It contains

The source code repository of Russian tech giant Yandex was leaked on a hacker forum in the form of a torrent magnet link. The leaker claims that the source code was stolen in July 2022, with a total file size of 44.7 GB. The source code repository contains the source code of almost all products

Intel announced its disappointing financial report for the fourth quarter of 2022, announcing the cancellation of the Pathfinder for RISC-V project, effective immediately. Intel had a tough 2022, and 2023 is expected to remain tough. The Q4 revenue in 2022 will be US$14 billion, compared with US$20.5 billion in the same period of 2021, a

New York startup DoNotPay has come up with a way to use AI lawyers to defend drivers who receive traffic tickets in court. Here’s how it works: Defendants who receive speeding tickets wear smart glasses that record court proceedings while dictating responses into the defendant’s ear through a speaker. Its AI system is based on

Image gallery service Shutterstock offers its customers its own AI image generation tool. The results of Shutterstock’s partnership with OpenAI, the developer of the DALL-E AI tool announced last October, are now available to all paying customers. To allay concerns about copyright infringement and artistic ethics, Shutterstock says it uses licensed datasets to train its