The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023
Consumer data consumption has increased exponentially in a little over a decade. According to broadband insight reports from OpenVault, monthly household data usage has skyrocketed from an average of 9 GB per...
Meta to introduce new information about parental controls for Quest VR
In brief: This week, Meta announced a set of new parental controls it's bringing to Quest VR headsets over the next few months. These will allow parents to monitor and control what...
Slack pressured to prioritize privacy amid end-to-end encryption protests
According to the Make Slack Safe campaign, Slack is in desperate need of an urgent security upgrade. On Wednesday, a group of more than 90 organizations staged a protest outside of Slack offices in...
Hybrid AI concept would move AI generation from the cloud to our devices
As exciting as AI tools like ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Microsoft's numerous Co-pilots may be, they all currently face the same restriction: you have to be connected to the Internet to use them. For most people...
The AI chip market landscape: Choose your battles carefully
Right now, the world is fixated on Nvidia's dominant position in the market, but it's important to delve into this a bit further. Nvidia is clearly the leader in the market for training chips,...
Hot Pixels attacks exploit power management in modern SoC and GPUs to leak data
Hot Pixels is a new side-channel attack conceived by an international team of researchersposing a theoretical security threat that exploits Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) techniques to "probe analog properties" of computing...
The FDA gives Elon Musk’s Neuralink permission to put brain implants in humans
Musk has on several occasions said that Neuralink was getting closer to starting human trials that will see a device implanted in a human brain.
Neuralink applied for FDA approval in early 2022 but...
Paralyzed man walks again after brain and spinal computerized implants
A spinal cord injury during a biking accident over a decade ago left Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, unable to walk due to limb impairment. An experimental neurorehabilitation program involving electronic stimulation restored...
ChatGPT found guilty of fabricating cases and citations for a Manhattan lawyer’s Federal Court...
Attorney Steven A. Schwartz was retained by a client to represent them in a personal injury case against Avianca Airlines. According to the claim, Schwartz's client was allegedly struck in the knee...
Ex-Googler fired for criticizing AI warns that companies won’t self-regulate without pressure
Gebru's firing from Google (the company claims she resigned) as co-leader of its ethical AI team came after she co-authored an academic paper that warned of the inherent biases within AI....