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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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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work with Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

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Amazon Just Got Banned from the EU Parliament

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Amazon has become the second company ever to have its lobbyists banned from the European Parliament,...
Amazon has become the second company ever to have its lobbyists banned from the European Parliament, amid accusations that the company does not take the institution seriously.The ban, which means the 14 Amazon employees who had access to the European Parliament can no longer enter the building without an invitation,...
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How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets–and Putin

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In 2019, a government contractor and technologist named Mike Yeagley began making the rounds in Washington,...
In 2019, a government contractor and technologist named Mike Yeagley began making the rounds in Washington, DC. He had a blunt warning for anyone in the country’s national security establishment who would listen: The US government had a Grindr problem.A popular dating and hookup app, Grindr relied on the GPS capabil...
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The Doomslayer (1997)

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This is the litany : Our resources are running out. The air is bad, the water...
This is the litany : Our resources are running out. The air is bad, the water worse. The planet's species are dying off - more exactly, we're killing them -at the staggering rate of 100,000 peryear, a figure that works out to almost 2,000 species per week, 300 per day, 10 perhour, another dead species every six minu...
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won't '[Influence] the Network with Ads'

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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control

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NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System

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In general, Joyce noted, spies have little trouble getting into your network because they know better...
In general, Joyce noted, spies have little trouble getting into your network because they know better than you what's on it."We put the time in ...to know [that network] better than the people who designed it and the people who are securing it," he said. "You know the technologies you intended to use in that network...
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Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

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After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving...
After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled by an airline chatbot inaccurately explaining the airline's bereavement travel policy.On the day Jake Moffatt's grandmother died, Moffat immediately visited Air Canada's website to book a flight from Vanc...
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Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft

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The Feds Just Bet Even Bigger on American-Made Heat Pumps

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Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm(2008)

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Sierra Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites

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Why Tesla's Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting

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Tesla says it uses proprietary stainless steel (possibly from Outokumpu of Finland, Europe's largest producer, which...
Tesla says it uses proprietary stainless steel (possibly from Outokumpu of Finland, Europe's largest producer, which runs a plant in Calvert, Alabama). However, even proprietary stainless steels can stain, especially if any cheaper steel fittings beneath the Cybertruck's panels react with the stainless product.There...
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Leak of Russian 'Threat' Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources

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While redirecting blame away from Turner and his cohorts, the claim is both false and deceptive,...
While redirecting blame away from Turner and his cohorts, the claim is both false and deceptive, relying on assertions that, while farcical perhaps to legal experts, would be impossible for the public at large (and most of the press) to parse alone.The text that Fox News’ intelligence sources are referring to—which ...
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23andMe Is Under Fire. Its Founder Remains 'Optimistic'

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