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Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
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Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering âStop Cop Cityâ Protesterâs True Identity
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âIt doesnât feel safeââMany international game developers plan to skip GDC in US | Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry
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People really hate artificial intelligence, according to the latest NBC poll: 46% of respondents said they hold negative feelings towards the concept of AI, and only 26% reported positive connotations, while 27% were neutral.
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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
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Chinese SSD maker YMTC lists first commercial PCIe 5.0 SSD as worldwide shortage intensifies â Xtacking 4.0 NAND powers speeds of up to 10,500 MB/s
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Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns
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âIt doesn't feel safeââMany international game developers plan to skip GDC in US
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Surge in VPN downloads after Pornhub blocks Aussie users over new age laws
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Ringâs Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his answers may not help
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AI Error Likely Led to Girlâs School Bombing in Iran
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Anthropic sues to block Pentagon blacklisting over AI use restrictions
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Wireless eye implant helps blind patients read again
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Questions about self-driving cars amplify after one blocked an ambulance responding to Austin shooting
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Declines in Instagram, LinkedIn, and Threads Engagement
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Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the first time, showing how to cut emissions from shipping
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How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
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With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy | Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security.
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London doctor carries out remote robot surgery on cancer patient 1,500 miles away
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China warns of fresh chip shortage as Nexperia dispute escalates again - Dutch headquarters allegedly locked Chinese staff out of IT systems
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More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: "Super core" architecture and 40-core GPU deliver beastly performance, but still retains a five-year-old design (Brian Westover/PCMag)
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Apple Studio Display XDR review: great reference picture modes, much improved camera, and 120Hz support on newer Macs, but expensive at $3300 and only for Macs (John Higgins/The Verge)
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SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since Nov. 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI involvement grows; on Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% on Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)
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Anthropic debuts a Code Review feature for Claude Code, which uses agents working in teams to check pull requests for bugs, available in research preview (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
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Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution" is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
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Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics (Jake Angelo/Fortune)
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UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
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OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is "trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500", to fold into OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)
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Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
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Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM (Steve Dent/Engadget)
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Australia's online age restrictions take effect, requiring platforms to verify users are 18+ before they can access content including porn and R-rated games (Ahmed Yussuf/ABC)
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The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)
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Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights (Jack Queen/Reuters)