How AI may be a powerful tool in treating male infertility
Fertility experts are now using artificial intelligence to help find sperm in medical samples. Source link
China's Microsoft Email Cloud Hack Began With a 2021 Computer Crash
The cryptographic key that hackers used to access to Microsoft’s cloud was stored by mistake on the company’s corporate network for more than two years. Source link
Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted
Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.” Source link
Young Canadians want to save for retirement despite high cost of living: survey
Despite the high cost of living making it harder to set aside money after expenses, a recent survey indicates Gen Z and millennial Canadians still want to start saving for retirement. And even with the Bank of Canada’s most recent announcement on Sept. 6 stating it was holding its key interest rate steady at 5.0 […]
Turkey surgery warning as mother-of-four dies after gastric sleeve
Shannon Meenan Browse died from malnutrition after gastric sleeve surgery in Turkey 18 months ago. Source link
AI Can Be An Extraordinary Force For Good—if It’s Contained
In a quaint Regency-era office overlooking London’s Russell Square, I cofounded a company called DeepMind with two friends, Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, in the summer of 2010. Our goal, one that still feels as ambitious and crazy and hopeful as it did back then, was to replicate the very thing that makes us unique […]
Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
It’s easy to trick the large language models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. In one experiment in February, security researchers forced Microsoft’s Bing chatbot to behave like a scammer. Hidden instructions on a web page the researchers created told the chatbot to ask the person using it to hand over their bank […]
A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm
“V. vulnificus is only active at a temperature that’s above 13 degrees Celsius, and then it becomes more prevalent up until the temperature reaches 30 degrees Celsius, which is 86 Fahrenheit,” says Karen Knee, who is an associate professor and water-quality expert at American University and an open-water swimmer accustomed to ocean conditions. “I was […]