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Pope Leo Issues AI Encyclical Warning That âOpaque Algorithmsâ Controlled by a âFewâ Companies Can Bring âNew Forms of Dehumanisationâ
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As AI wipes out white-collar jobs, one Alabama high school and Toyota are training students for roles that pay $40 an hour and can't be automated
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CBS Suspends Takedown Notices on Bootleg YouTube Uploads of Stephen Colbertâs âOnly in Monroeâ Public Access Show After Outcry
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AI promised cost savings, but Microsoft and Uber say itâs costing more than human workers | Company Business News
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Pope Leo calls for AI to be âdisarmedâ
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Streamer Realtime Deepfakes Himself into Mr. Beast, Says He Loves "Touching Little Boys" | The software, called Delulu, is marketed specifically to streamers and lets them easily transform into other people
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Zuckerberg warns âsuccess isnât a givenâ amid 10% layoffs at Meta
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Linus Torvalds to âstart being more hardnosedâ about âpointless pull requestsâ â some of which come from AIs
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Self-Driving bus in Sweden crashes with tram on first day of passenger service
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Not just Samsung: Workers at TSMC also questioning bonus system in wake of record profits
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Proton VPN vows to resist Canadian surveillance demands under Bill C-22
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Samsung reportedly developing 250TB to 1PB nearline SSDs, enough for up to 8,000 GTA V installs
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Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones
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99% of executives expect AI to trigger layoffs within two years, survey finds
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âAI washingâ: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
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Palantir accuses London mayor of âputting politics above public safetyâ, after ÂŁ50m contract with Met Police blocked for breach of procurement rules
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Fashion designer Jeremy Scott gets a huge cheer after ripping up his AI-written commencement speech
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The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy | In 2001, the FBI raided O.J.âs house and found smartcards, bootloaders.
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Pope Leo warns of AI fueling warfare in first major theological document
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Researcher develops 'spray-on' stealth coating for drones â volcanic rock formulation claims to reduce radar return signals by up to 43dB, compared to 20 to 30dB for typical radar absorbent material
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Magnifica Humanitas
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Show HN: Audiomass â a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
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Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)
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Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
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Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
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Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under âŹ10 per month
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IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry
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C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
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Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
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Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died
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Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality
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Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties
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Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) â Twilio for iMessage
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Everyone Against Us (2023)
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JensenâShannon Divergence
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CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language
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Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C
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Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers
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Techmeme
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X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by "programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts" (Lakshmi Varanasi/Business Insider)
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Iranian state media reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access after a near-90-day blackout (Reuters)
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Report: the EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of a 2025 probe over concerns it favors its own services in search results (Reuters)
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A look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers probe AI models for safety gaps, as its work becomes a blueprint for other governments' AI policies (New York Times)
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Study: rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has grown 12x+ since 2023; in early 2026, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent reference (Tristan Bove/Fortune)
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How Iranian threat actor Nimbus Manticore used techniques like AI-assisted malware development and SEO poisoning to target companies during the US-Iran war (Check Point Research)
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SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public (Bloomberg)
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Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has reached $1B in lifetime funding; it remains in alpha and does not have a confirmed release date (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
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Tether plans to launch GELT, an "official" stablecoin representing the Georgian lari, with the support of Georgia's government in an unusual partnership (Reuters)
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Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
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A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling (Washington Post)
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In his ~43,000-word encyclical, the Pope urged governments to slow down AI development and decried "new forms of slavery" in AI and tech supply chains (Joshua McElwee/Reuters)
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More than 5,500 GitHub repositories were infected with malware in a supply chain attack, dubbed Megalodon, on May 18 that relies on automated commits (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
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Pope Leo XIV presents Magnifica humanitas, his encyclical on AI, calling for AI regulation, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more (New York Times)
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Sources: Meta, Google, and Amazon execs met Vatican officials on April 29, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical (Océane Herrero/Politico)