JPMorgan Chase has begun to file lawsuits against people that exploited the viral “infinite money glitch”—or committed check fraud—this summer.
In August, posts began circulating on social media showing users how to exploit “the glitch” by depositing into the bank’s ATMs bogus checks for large amounts, and withdrawing some of those available funds before the check bounced. The now-closed loophole quickly went viral, with social media users cashing in on the trend and
Google-parent Alphabet’s breakout cloud sales in the July-September quarter bode well for top cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon.com, and signal that market for AI-aided computing power is only growing.
The company’s stock rose 5.5% in premarket trading on Wednesday, a day after Alphabet posted a 35% surge in Google Cloud revenue, the fastest pace of growth in eight quarters. Analysts expected a 29% rise, according to LSEG.
The company’s mainstay ad sa
Billionaire and X owner Elon Musk put out a call on his social media platform Tuesday for people to submit their medical scans to Grok, his AI chatbot. But experts are advising people to use caution when sharing sensitive information to train tech platforms.
Musk asked users to “try submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images” to the artificial intelligence platform for analysis. “This is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become
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Voting system passwords were mistakenly put on the Colorado Secretary of State’s website for several months before being spotted and taken down, but the lapse did not pose an immediate threat to the upcoming election, said state election officials Tuesday.
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Sam Altman has been very good for Nvidia.
In 2022, server-class GPUs were a $10 billion business according to Aaron Rakers, an analyst at Wells Fargo. Not bad, but still a small category nonetheless. This year, revenues are expected to hit the $50 billion mark, and it’s all thanks to the generative AI craze spawned by ChatGPT.
Rakers estimates that if these
Keanu Reeves has fought machines on-screen. Now, his performances are teaching them.
In September, Lionsgate inked a deal with Runway, permitting the AI firm to train a new generative AI model on its extensive film and TV library, including blockbuster franchises like John Wick, Saw, and The Hunger Games. Lionsgate’s vice-chair Michael Burns believes the partnership will save the studio “millions and millions of dollars” by aiding filmmakers in pre-produ
We’re gearing up for the holiday season, a time when parcel shipments go crazy. Last year, in the three months leading up to December 2023, the U.K.’s Royal Mail—the country’s equivalent of the USPS—handled 387 million parcels, up 36% from a year before. Every day, the service s
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Halloween is upon us, which means it’s a good excuse to watch some films from one of cinema’s most under appreciated genres: science fiction horror.
As I argued years a
Some rage-baiting TikTok and X users are choosing not to vote for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Instead, they’re writing in their favorite meme.
At the bottom of the presidential ballot, some states let voters to write in their preferred candidate. Some people have used that allowance to write-in, say, their favorite Twitch streamer, or even references to memes—and post abo