Enlarge / AI-generated image of a kid using a computer. Ars Technica New York City Public Schools have blocked access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI model on its network and devices, reports educational news site Chalkbeat. The move comes amid fears from educators that students will use ChatGPT to cheat... Read more

Ring brought a new camera to Las Vegas this year for CES 2023, but it isn’t one that you’ll use at your front door, or anywhere else on or inside your home, for that matter. Instead, the Amazon-owned brand’s newest device is a dashcam called the Ring Car Cam,... Read more

The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla became infamous in 2008 as the hackers behind agent.btz, a virulent piece of malware that spread through US Department of Defense systems, gaining widespread access via infected USB drives plugged in by unsuspecting Pentagon staffers. Now, 15 years later, the same group... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. It’s an increasingly familiar scenario. A well-regarded company offering a popular online service discloses that it has fallen victim to a data breach. Cyberattackers have stolen customer names, phone numbers and credit card data, and little can... Read more

Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere — or at least, that’s what it seems like to me: A few weeks ago, a friend mentioned in passing that his law professor had warned students not to cheat with AI on an upcoming exam. At the same time, I couldn’t escape the... Read more

The world’s biggest gadget show, CES 2023, officially begins today, but we’ve already seen plenty of televisions. From LG’s model that is not only OLED but wireless as well, to some of the largest sets to grace the show stage, it’s all here. If you want to know what... Read more

Not everyone is impressed with Mastodon. Some call it clunky and slow, some in the security world say it’s far from perfect, and because different servers may be run differently, there’s no consistency to moderation and rules. And you may be philosophically opposed to the fact that instead of “tweets,” messages on... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Before DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, there was just a research paper called “Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation.”  With that paper and a controlled website demo, on January 5, 2021 — two years ago today — OpenAI introduced... Read more

Here’s a standard streaming TV joke/complaint: There are so many different services that someone should just put them all together, and then you’d just pay one monthly fee for everything. You know, just like cable TV! Ho ho ho. The thing is, none of the people running streaming TV... Read more

Thanks to the rise of streaming services, you no longer have to head to the theater to catch many of the latest releases. And when you upgrade your home entertainment setup with a soundbar, you can bring the immersive, room-filling sound of the movie theater right to your living room.... Read more