Enlarge / The ASUS logo in front of an AI-generated background. ASUS / Stable Diffusion reader comments 15 with Taiwan’s Asustek Computer (known popularly as “Asus”) plans to introduce a rental business AI server that will operate on-site to address security concerns and data control issues from cloud-based AI systems, Bloomberg reports. The service, called […]
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EmTech Next is happening June 13-15
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Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor
BeeBright/Getty Images reader comments 82 with Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious trick in the toolkit of stealthy hackers. But when a motherboard manufacturer installs its own hidden backdoor in the firmware of millions of computers—and […]
The Download: clean energy investments, and Amazon’s data privacy fine
Money makes the world go round. And when it comes to energy, we’re seeing more investment than ever: companies, research institutions, and governments are all pouring money into technologies that could help power our world in the future. The International Energy Agency just published its annual report on global investment in energy, where it tallies […]
AI wrap-up – Friday June 2nd
There is so much AI news each week it was taking over our digital pānui so we decided to pull that content out into a seperate post each week. There were three big news themes in the AI news this week – we’re all going to die, it’s creating demand for computer chips and we […]
The world is finally spending more on solar than oil production
The International Energy Agency just published its annual report on global investment in energy, where it tallies up all that cash. The world saw about $2.8 trillion of investments in energy in 2022, with about $1.7 trillion of that going into clean energy. That’s the biggest single-year investment in clean energy ever, and where it’s […]
Digital twin industry effort kicks off
An industry partnership aimed at advancing digital twin technology has launched mirroring efforts across the Tasman to explore how digital twins can be used. Digital twins are virtual representations of real-world objects, from buildings, hospital and electricity grids to complicated machinery and factories. They are seen as having huge scope to improve efficiency when it […]
Researchers tell owners to “assume compromise” of unpatched Zyxel firewalls
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Firewalls made by Zyxel are being wrangled into a destructive botnet, which is taking control of them by exploiting a recently patched vulnerability with a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10. “At this stage if you have a vulnerable device exposed, assume compromise,” officials from Shadowserver, an organization […]
AI-expanded album cover artworks go viral thanks to Photoshop’s Generative Fill
Enlarge / An AI-expanded version of a famous album cover involving four lads and a certain road created using Adobe Generative Fill. (credit: Capitol Records / Adobe / Dobrokotov) Over the weekend, AI-powered makeovers of famous music album covers went viral on Twitter thanks to Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill, an image synthesis tool that debuted […]
Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 173 with Twitter’s value has reportedly dropped to about $15 billion, slightly more than one-third of the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid for it in late October 2022. The $15 billion valuation is based on Fidelity’s latest analysis of its stake in the company. “Fidelity Blue Chip Growth […]