UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots
The ICO wants to know the safeguards around Recall, which can take screengrabs of your screen every few seconds.
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EFF Urges Supreme Court to Reject Texas’ Speech-Chilling Age Verification Law
A Texas age verification law will rob people of anonymity online, chill access to speech for privacy- and security-minded internet users, and entirely block some adults from accessing constitutionally protected online content, EFF argued in a brief filed with the Supreme Court
Google’s new ‘Add to Chromebook’ badge makes web apps easier to find and install
How the “Add to Chromebook” badge looks like on websites. | Image: Google Google is making a new “Add to Chromebook” badge that’s designed to make it easier for ChromeOS users to find and install progressive web apps (PWAs) and Android apps. The badge links directly to the
Wisconsin man arrested for allegedly creating AI-generated child sexual abuse material
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images A Wisconsin software engineer was arrested on Monday for allegedly creating and distributing thousands of AI-generated images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Court documents describe Steven Anderegg
Researchers spot cryptojacking attack that disables endpoint protections
A key component: Installing known vulnerable drivers from Avast and IOBit.
Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Build 2024. | Screenshot: YouTube Microsoft had a lot to say about Windows and AI — and a little to say about custom emoji — during the Build 2024 keynote . The company, like just about everyone else in the industry, is charging hard at cramming
Windows now has AI-powered copy and paste
Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is adding a new Advanced Paste feature to PowerToys for Windows 11 that can convert your clipboard content on the fly with the power of AI. The new feature can help people speed up their workflows by doing things like copying code in one
Elon Musk’s xAI is working on making Grok multimodal
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is making progress on adding multimodal inputs to its Grok chatbot, according to public developer documents . What this means is that, soon, users may be able to upload photos to Grok and
Speaking Freely: Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst , where he teaches Public Policy, Communication and Information. He is starting a new research center called the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure. Over the years, he’s been a tech startup
Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks
Image: The Verge Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically. Instead of Copilot sitting idle waiting for queries, it will be able to do things like monitor email inboxes
Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures
Illustration: The Verge Microsoft announced a new version of its small language model, Phi-3 , which can look at images and tell you what’s in them. Phi-3-vision is a multimodal model — aka it can read both text and images — and is best used on mobile devices. Microsoft says
Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them
Image: The Verge Microsoft Edge will soon offer real-time video translation on sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, and more. As part of this year’s Build event, Microsoft announced that the new AI-powered feature will be able to translate spoken content through both
The EPA is cracking down on cybersecurity threats
The East Bay Municipal Utility District Wastewater Treatment Plant on March 20th, 2024, in Oakland, California. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency is ramping up its inspections of critical water infrastructure after warning of
Uber and Lyft to stay in Minneapolis after state lowers driver pay requirements
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber and Lyft will continue operating in Minneapolis after the state legislature approved a lower minimum pay rate for drivers over the weekend, according to reports from the Minnesota Reformer and StarTribune . The new rates will go
The entrepreneur trying to make thrifting truly eco-friendly with AI
Nofal Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Swag Kicks, one of Pakistan’s largest online thrift platforms.
Indonesia has more than 700 languages. Can AI save them?
Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian firms are focusing on Bahasa Indonesia and other regional languages.
These elephants are dying on rail tracks - can AI save them?
Officials in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu are using AI to monitor elephant movement on rail tracks.
Scarlett Johansson 'shocked' by AI chatbot imitation
The star says she is "shocked" after OpenAI launched a chatbot with a voice "eerily similar" to hers.
