At the gates – How to survive the era of cyber insecurity
While the cyber security industry has existed for decades, when it comes to digital business, never has there been such anxiety about the safety of our digital spaces. The...
Cloud service providers, OEMs, chip firms form Ultra Ethernet Consortium
AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft have revealed that they will be among the founding members of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), an industry-wide cooperation to...
Behind the scenes: How we host Ars Technica, part 1
Enlarge / Take a peek inside the Ars vault with us!Aurich Lawson | Getty Images A bit over three years ago, just before COVID hit, we ran a long piece...
Openreach claims ‘game-changer’ for wholesale optical Ethernet
With the UK’s broadband sector getting ever more competitive in both the consumer and enterprise sectors, and with competitors making strategic moves to grab its market share, Openreach is...
Google Meet’s new AI-generated backgrounds mean I can join every meeting from the Barbie Dreamhouse
Microsoft Teams is too formal, Zoom gives me pandemic flashbacks, but Google Meet is fun. Hopping into a Google Meet video call gives me an experience full of fun vibes,...
Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that allows commercial applications
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cybernetic llama.Midjourney On Tuesday, Meta announced Llama 2, a new open source family of AI language models notable for its commercial license, which...
Exploited 0-days, an incomplete fix, and a botched disclosure: Infosec snafu reigns
Getty Images Organizations big and small are once again scrambling to patch critical vulnerabilities that are already under active exploitation and cause the kind of breaches coveted by ransomware actors...
Quordle today – hints and answers for Wednesday, July 19 (game #541)
It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many...
Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues
Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images) OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to a planned wide release. However, public access is being curtailed due to...
YouTube testing new double-speed video playback control for more video in less time
YouTube is set to introduce a faster way to double the playback speed of videos as it tests several upcoming features.All people have to do, according to the platform, is...