November 21, 2024

The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…

June 2023

Feds seize notorious and shuttered hacking site BreachForums

June 23, 2023

Three months after arresting its administrator, U.S. federal authorities have seized the domain of notorious hacking site BreachForums. For a time, the forum was the go-to community for English speaking cybercriminals, who would share, advertise, and sell personal data stolen from a variety of websites and companies. In March, the FBI arrested Conor Brian Fitzpatrick […]

Feds seize notorious and shuttered hacking site BreachForums by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

UK touts £21M fund to extend AI deeper into the National Health Service

June 23, 2023

The AI revolution has swung full-force into the mainstream conversation this year, powered by consumer-friendly generative AI applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But while such tools are raising myriad legal and ethical questions, the emergence of new and powerful large language models (LLMs) also have the potential to revolutionize healthcare. This is why the U.K. […]

UK touts £21M fund to extend AI deeper into the National Health Service by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Aging and Retirement

June 23, 2023
My grandmom used to say that she wished that she came up with the following bumper sticker; “Getting old sucks!” In all fairness, she’s not the only person to ever…