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The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite in order to reduce dependence on American software.
While Sam Altman publicly complains, Meta poaches AI researchers from OpenAI for its superintelligence project.
Bernie Sanders, who introduced a bill requiring a 32-hour workweek last year, says technology should be used for the benefit of workers.
Offensive mobile security researcher “thewhiteh4t” has demonstrated how easy it is to reveal your exact smartphone location without installing malware. The researcher openly released Seeker, a concept ...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared “serious concerns” over the long-term safety of the International Space Station (ISS), urging to de-orbit it within two years. “There are potentially serious concerns about ...
US President Donald Trump has reported over $57m in income from a family-linked crypto firm – making it one of his largest single earnings. According to the financial disclosure report released by the ...
Defenders are seeing a dramatic escalation of AI-powered fraud and deepfakes. Deepfake fraud attempts rose by over 1,300% in 2024, Pindrop, a voice authentication firm, has found. The company provides ...
A second Italian journalist was recently targeted by software made by U.S.-owned surveillance company Paragon, internet watchdog group Citizen Lab said, raising new questions about a surveillance ...
China has ensured that popular AI chatbots aren’t used in high-stakes exams and has disabled AI tools until exam hours are over. During China’s most important college entrance exam season, the ...
Google is rolling out a new feature to its Gemini app called “scheduled actions”, meant to effectively handle user tasks — however, not everyone will be able to access it. Schedule actions are ...
A 19-year-old from Arizona died after participating in a viral online “dusting” challenge. Renna O’Rourke died after trying the viral “dusting” trend in which users sniff computer dusting spray to get ...
Amazon is not the only company that experiences backlash from its workers for replacing them with AI tools or robots. Entry-level hiring in big tech has collapsed, dropping over 50% since 2022, ...