It is difficult to think of a more influential figure in the arcade game industry than David Rosen, who has died aged 95. The co-founder of Sega, who remained a director of the company until 1996, was instrumental in the birth and rise of the video game business in Japan, and in the 1980s and 90s oversaw the establishment of Sega of America and the huge success of the Mega Drive console. As a US Air Force pilot during the Korean war, Rosen found himself stationed in Japan, and once the conflict was over, he stayed on, intrigued by the country and seeing possibilities in its recovering economy. In 1954 he set up Rosen Enterprises and noticing that Japanese civilians now required an increasing number of new ID cards he started importing photo booths from the US to answer the demand. From here he expanded to pinball tables and other coin-operated machines, importing them for installation in shops, restaurants and cinemas.

The United States has finalised rules that limit investments in critical technology sectors in China such as artificial intelligence on national security grounds, the Treasury Department has announced. The restrictions will bar US citizens and permanent residents, as well as US-based companies, from engaging in transactions involving technologies including AI, semiconductors and quantum computing, the Treasury said in a statement on Monday. US investors will also be obligated to inform the Treasury about investments in some less advanced technologies "that may contribute to the threat to the national security of the United States", the Treasury said. The curbs, which are due to take effect on January 2, will ensure "US investment is not exploited to advance the development of key technologies by those who may use them to threaten our national security," said Paul Rosen, the assistant secretary of the Treasury for Investment Security. "US investments, including the intangible benefits like managerial assistance and access to investment and talent networks that often accompany such capital flows, must not be used to help countries of concern develop their military, intelligence, and cyber capabilities," Rosen said.

Artificial intelligence is arguably the most rapidly advancing technology humans have ever developed. A year ago you wouldn't often hear AI come up in a regular conversation, but today it seems there's constant talk about how generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E will affect the future of work, the spread of information, and more. A major question that has thus far been almost entirely unexamined is how this AI-dominated future will affect people's minds. There's been some research into how using AI in their jobs will affect people mentally, but there isn't yet an understanding of how simply living amongst so much AI-generated content and systems will affect people's sense of the world. How is AI going to change individuals and society in the not-too-distant future?

Ever since the release of ChatGPT last year, new generative AI tools and services have captured people's attention. Now, Meta is warning that bad actors have taken notice of interest in AI chatbots. The Facebook parent said scammers are creating malware that poses at ChatGPT and similar tools. In a security report released Wednesday, Meta said it discovered 10 malware families posing as ChatGPT or related tools since March. Some of the malicious software, which can steal your personal information and compromise accounts, came in the form of browser extensions and links.

As the buzz around ChatGPT and other generative AI increases, so has scammers' interest in the tech. In a new report published by Meta, the company says it's seen a sharp uptick in malware disguised as ChatGPT and similar AI software. In a statement, the company said that since March of 2023 alone, its researchers have discovered "ten malware families using ChatGPT and other similar themes to compromise accounts across the internet" and that it's blocked more than 1,000 malicious links from its platform. According to Meta, the scams often involve mobile apps or browser extensions posing as ChatGPT tools. And while in some cases the tools do offer some ChatGPT functionality, their real purpose is to steal their users' account credentials.

For weeks, Jay Deitcher has been on the hunt for a specific Miles Morales: Spider-Man toy from Spidey and His Amazing Friends. "The thing that makes the toy special is Miles's mask flips up to show his face," Deitcher says. "My son is Black, and it would be great to have a Spider-Man figure that looks like him." But even though the father of two from Albany, New York, started shopping for Hanukkah earlier than usual, he has yet to track down the elusive toy, which is sold out at many retailers. "We were already expecting a shortage, so we got him most of his other presents," he says.

Nils J. Nilsson, a computer scientist who helped develop the first general-purpose robot and was a co-inventor of algorithms that made it possible for the machine to move about efficiently and perform simple tasks, died on Sunday at his home in Medford, Ore. His death was confirmed by his wife, Grace Abbott. Dr. Nilsson was a member of a small group of computer scientists and electrical engineers at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International) who pioneered technologies that have proliferated in modern life, whether in navigation software used in more than a billion smartphones or in such speech-control systems as Siri. The researchers had been recruited by Charles Rosen, a physicist at the institute, who had raised Pentagon funding in 1966 to design a robot that would be used as a platform for doing research in artificial intelligence. Although the project was intended to create a general-purpose mobile "automaton" and be a test bed for A.I. programs, Mr. Rosen had secured the funding by selling the idea to the Pentagon that the machine would be a mobile sentry for a military base.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice in the Federal Register last month saying it's seeking comments, as spotted by TorrentFreak. "Should authors be recognized for this type of use of their works?" asks the office. Earlier this year, the office similarly asked for public opinion on AI and patents. None of these questions have concrete answers in US law, but people have been debating the potential outcomes for years. The situation might be a little clearer when you're looking at something like an AI-based app where a user has to make a lot of decisions to shape the end result.

Facebook said on Wednesday night that its artificial intelligence systems failed to automatically detect the New Zealand mosque shooting video. A senior executive at the social media giant responded in a blog post to criticism that it didn't act quickly enough to take down the gunman's livestream video of his attack in Christchurch that left 50 people dead, allowing it to spread rapidly online. Facebook's vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, said "this particular video did not trigger our automatic detection systems." "AI has made massive progress over the years and in many areas, which has enabled us to proactively detect the vast majority of the content we remove," Rosen said. One reason is because artificial intelligence systems are trained with large volumes of similar content, but in this case there was not enough because such attacks are rare.

Facebook has revealed 30m accounts were affected in a data breach last month. The company said hackers were able to access personal information for nearly half of those accounts. That information included name, relationship status, religion, birthdate, workplaces, search activity, and recent location check-ins. The company had initially said 50m accounts were affected. According to Facebook VP of Product Management Guy Rosen, attackers were able to access name and contact information for half of the hacked accounts.