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Malware infecting widely used security appliance survives firmware updates
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threat actors with a connection to the Chinese government are infecting a…
Experts criticize Koko, a mental health nonprofit, for directing some at-risk users on Facebook, Tumblr, Discord, and other platforms to a chatbot for a study (Chloe Xiang/VICE)
Chloe Xiang / VICE: Experts criticize Koko, a mental health nonprofit, for directing some at-risk users…
Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cyborg duck. (credit: Ars Technica) Not to be left…
Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual language model with 562B parameters, integrating vision and language for robotic control (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual…
Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands
Enlarge / A robotic arm controlled by PaLM-E reaches for a bag of chips in a…
WeightWatchers is acquiring Sequence, a digital health company offering $99/month telehealth visits with doctors who can prescribe weight loss drugs, for $106M (Andrea Petersen/Wall Street Journal)
Andrea Petersen / Wall Street Journal: WeightWatchers is acquiring Sequence, a digital health company offering $99/month…
Threat actors are using advanced malware to backdoor business-grade routers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have uncovered advanced malware that’s turning business-grade routers into attacker-controlled listening…
Internal docs appear to show executives at Eco, a personal finance app offering 2.5% to 5% in “APY rewards”, misrepresented Eco’s lending practices to users (Jason Mikula/Fintech Business Weekly)
Jason Mikula / Fintech Business Weekly: Internal docs appear to show executives at Eco, a personal…
DALL-E 2 and Midjourney can be a boon for industrial designers
Enlarge / A volcano-themed tissue box designed with the help of AI-assisted image generation (credit: Juan…