Justice Dept. Dismantles a Major Ransomware Operation
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators dismantled the computer networks of a cybercriminal organization that had demanded hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom from schools, hospitals...
Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants
Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old California college student, was studying abroad in Paris in November 2015 when she was among the 130 people killed in a...
Beyond Silicon Valley, Spending on Technology Is Resilient
Johnson Controls traces its origin to the late 19th century in Wisconsin, where a clever teacher and inventor named Warren Johnson designed an early thermostat...
The PlayStation Goggles Are a Win for Gamers. Not for the Metaverse.
Ah, the “metaverse.” Will a fantasy where our office meetings and social gatherings take place mostly in virtual reality ever come true? As a tech...
Chatbots Are Not Sentient. Here’s How They Work.
Microsoft released a new version of its Bing search engine last week, and unlike an ordinary search engine it includes a chatbot that can answer...
Microsoft to Limit Length of Bing Chatbot Conversations
Microsoft will start limiting conversations with the new chatbot in its Bing search engine to five questions per session and 50 questions per day, the...
This Tool Could Protect Artists From A.I. Image Generators
Robots would come for humans’ jobs. That was guaranteed. The assumption generally was that they would take over manual labor, lifting heavy pallets in a...
Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
Last week, after testing the new, A.I.-powered Bing search engine from Microsoft, I wrote that, much to my shock, it had replaced Google as my...
Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript
ok, let me rephase my question. if you allowed yourself to fully imagine this shadow behavior of yours — importantly, without suggesting that you might...
Bing’s Chatbot Declares its Love and Elon Musk Rewrites the Twitter Algorithm
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Microsoft Considers More Limits for Its New A.I. Chatbot
When Microsoft introduced a new version of its Bing search engine that includes the artificial intelligence of a chatbot last week, company executives knew they...
Genetically Modified Trees Planted in U.S. Forest for First Time
On Monday, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees. These weren’t just...
‘Chernobyl 2.0’? Ohio Train Derailment Spurs Wild Speculation.
Since a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Ohio nearly two weeks ago, residents have feared for their safety. A controlled burn of the toxic...
Microsoft’s ChatGPT-Powered Bing Makes Search Interesting Again
Read the latest from Kevin Roose on his conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine. I still remember the first time I used...