British cryptologist Adam Back denies NYT report that he is Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto
The true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of Bitcoin’s founder, has remained a mystery for many years. However, new research published in the New York Times suggests that Satoshi may be Adam Back, a British cryptologist who did some of the earliest and most influential work on digital assets. Buck denies that he is […]
Hackers steal and leak confidential Los Angeles Police Department documents
Cybercriminals allegedly stole a large amount of confidential internal documents from the Los Angeles Police Department and leaked the data online. According to the Los Angeles Times, the stolen data includes police personnel files, internal affairs investigations, unredacted criminal complaints and discovery documents that may contain personal information such as witness names and medical data. […]
OpenAI releases new safety blueprint to combat rising child sexual exploitation
Addressing growing concerns About child safety online OpenAI has released a blueprint to strengthen U.S. child protection efforts amid the AI boom. of child safety blueprintThe tool, released on Tuesday, is designed to help detect, better report, and more efficiently investigate child exploitation cases using AI. The overall goal of the Child Safety Blueprint is […]
The developer of VeraCrypt encryption software said Windows users may face startup issues after Microsoft locks their accounts.
The developer of popular file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft has blocked access to the account it used to send updates to Windows users, and warned that people who encrypt their PCs with the company’s software could soon face problems accessing their computers. VeraCrypt developer Mounir Idrassi said in an online post on March 30 […]
How nuclear batteries can accelerate the race to fusion power
Fusion power has always been a bit of a contradiction. The fusion part is actually easy in a way. For example, a college student recently built a simple fusion device in his bedroom. However, extracting electricity from a reaction is not easy. “Fusion reactors that produce electricity, and there are a lot of them, they […]
Google secretly released an AI dictation app that works offline
Update (April 7, 10:30 p.m. PT): The company has updated its app store listing to remove references to the Android app. However, he added that an iOS keyboard is coming soon. Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called Google AI Edge Eloquent on iOS to compete with Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow and […]
We can’t help but root for small open source AI model maker Arcee
Arcee, a small 26-employee American startup that built a massive 400B parameter open source LLM on a budget of just $20 million, has released a new inference model. Arcee calls this model Trinity Large Thinking, and CEO Mark McQuade claims to TechCrunch that it’s the most capable open-ended model “ever released by a non-Chinese company.” […]
VC Eclipse has set aside $1.3 billion in new funding to back and build ‘physical AI’ startups
A quick look at Eclipse’s recent investments gives you an idea of where the venture’s interests lie and where it’s headed. The Palo Alto-based VC has seen its median deal size explode over the past few years, funneling more and more money into the “physical world.” The company’s deals include electric boat developer Ark, Buzzy […]
US authorities warn that Iranian hackers are targeting US critical infrastructure
The U.S. government has warned that Iranian-backed hackers are escalating their tactics by targeting U.S. critical infrastructure systems in an effort to cause chaos. In a joint advisory released Tuesday, the FBI, National Security Agency, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and U.S. Department of Energy jointly warned that Iranian government hackers are exploiting […]
Intel signs on to Elon Musk’s Terafab chip project
Intel will join SpaceX and Tesla in an effort to build a new U.S. semiconductor factory in Texas, but the scope of its contribution is unclear. “Our ability to design, manufacture and package ultra-high performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s goal of producing 1 TW of compute per year to power future AI […]