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Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3M Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds

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When thousands of security researchers descend on Las Vegas every August for what's come to be...
When thousands of security researchers descend on Las Vegas every August for what's come to be known as “hacker summer camp,” the back-to-back Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, it's a given that some of them will experiment with hacking the infrastructure of Vegas itself, the city's elaborate array of casino ...
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What Is a Pig Butchering Scam? (2023)

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Though carrying off pig butchering scams takes a lot of communication and relationship building with victims...
Though carrying off pig butchering scams takes a lot of communication and relationship building with victims over time, researchers say that crime syndicates in China developed scripts and playbooks that allowed them to offload the work at scale onto inexperienced scammers or even forced laborers who are victims of ...
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Musk's X Suspends Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Alleged Identity

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Hours later, the account associated with the Anonymous Comrades Collective that posted the thread was deleted,...
Hours later, the account associated with the Anonymous Comrades Collective that posted the thread was deleted, and the account was suspended. On Friday, dozens of users, including a number of researchers and journalists, began discussing the incident and posting some of the details of the research, including Graeben...
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8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story

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Eight names are listed as authors on “Attention Is All You Need,” a scientific paper written...
Eight names are listed as authors on “Attention Is All You Need,” a scientific paper written in the spring of 2017. They were all Google researchers, though by then one had left the company. When the most tenured contributor, Noam Shazeer, saw an early draft, he was surprised that his name appeared first, suggesting...
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People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities–Until They Live in One

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London had a problem. In 2016, more than 2 million of the city’s residents—roughly a quarter...
London had a problem. In 2016, more than 2 million of the city’s residents—roughly a quarter of its population—lived in areas with illegal levels of air pollution; areas that also contained nearly 500 of the city’s schools. That same air pollution was prematurely killing as many as 36,000 people a year. Much of it w...
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EVs with Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China

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Chinese automakers are starting to equip electric cars with camera drones. For now, this drone integration...
Chinese automakers are starting to equip electric cars with camera drones. For now, this drone integration is aimed at content creators who want to collect videos of themselves driving. These systems typically enable one-click filming of a moving vehicle, with the action viewable live on the car's interior display a...
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Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself

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When Michael Seibel lost his position at the startup incubator Y Combinator, he didn’t find out...
When Michael Seibel lost his position at the startup incubator Y Combinator, he didn’t find out in typical tech industry fashion, which might entail an email calling him to a Zoom meeting where the bad news would be delivered. He did it to himself. Today Seibel is announcing that he’s stepping down as YC’s managing ...
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Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation

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Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others...
Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could bring in $203 million of revenue over the next few years. The community-driven platform was forced to disclose Friday that US regulators already have questions about that new line of business.In a regulatory f...
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States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

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The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies...
The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation. Major meat producers Cargill and Tyson have both invested in cultivated meat companies, while Brazil’s JBS is working on a cultivated research site in Brazil. “We see ourselves...
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The Small Company at the Center of 'GamerGate 2.0'

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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764

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Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired

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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

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The second slide in Turner’s presentation featured the tweet by Foldi, which likewise references a march...
The second slide in Turner’s presentation featured the tweet by Foldi, which likewise references a march on Schumer’s home. That protest, however, took place nearly a month after the first. HPSCI's claim that Hamas may have incited the demonstration appears solely based on this remark by Foldi, who claims the protes...
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Tech Still Isn't Doing Enough to Care for the Environment

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Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat

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The Zayed Sustainability Prize has launched a US$600K award for Climate Action

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The world desperately needs new ways to tackle our climate crisis. But coming up with innovative...
The world desperately needs new ways to tackle our climate crisis. But coming up with innovative solutions, let alone scaling them, is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive—plenty of startups fail before they can reach critical mass. Prizes can often play a crucial role in driving positive change, rewarding indiv...
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Florida middle-schoolers charged with making deepfake nudes of classmates

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Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls

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Mobile World Congress always has more than its fair share of weird. Last week at MWC,...
Mobile World Congress always has more than its fair share of weird. Last week at MWC, the winner’s prize for bonkers went to a Korean company called Hyodol, which proudly showed off a disturbing-looking ChatGPT-enabled companion doll aimed at older adults. Now, this $1,800 AI-enabled doll may well look like somethin...
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Law enforcement doesn't want to be "customer service" reps for Meta any more

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Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are...
Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United States about Facebook and Instagram user accounts being stolen, and declaring “immediate action” necessary to mitigate the rolling threat.The coalition of top law enforcement off...
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Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare

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Google Is Finally Trying to Kill AI Clickbait

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Google is taking action against algorithmically generated spam. The search engine giant just announced upcoming changes,...
Google is taking action against algorithmically generated spam. The search engine giant just announced upcoming changes, including a revamped spam policy, designed in part to keep AI clickbait out of its search results.“It sounds like it’s going to be one of the biggest updates in the history of Google,” says Lily R...
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Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Received a $22M Payment

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The ransomware attack targeting medical firm Change Healthcare has been one of the most disruptive in...
The ransomware attack targeting medical firm Change Healthcare has been one of the most disruptive in years, crippling pharmacies across the US—including those in hospitals—and leading to serious snags in the delivery of prescription drugs nationwide for 10 days and counting. Now, a dispute within the criminal under...
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JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally

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Lex Fridman has done many long interviews on his popular podcast. Even so, the episode with...
Lex Fridman has done many long interviews on his popular podcast. Even so, the episode with the legendary programmer John Carmack has an unhinged director’s-cut feel to it. Over five hours, Carmack dishes on everything from vector operations to Doom. But it’s something Fridman says, offhand, that really justifies th...
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for 'Flagrant Breaches' of Contract

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Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for allegedly abandoning OpenAI’s original mission to develop...
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for allegedly abandoning OpenAI’s original mission to develop artificial intelligence to benefit humanity.“OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,” Musk’s lawyers wrote in the lawsui...
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