Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever — Despite billions of dollars in profit, Satya Nadella points to those pesky ‘macroeconomic uncertainties’
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Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever
Despite billions of dollars in profit, Satya Nadella points to those pesky 'macroeconomic uncertainties'
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Power plants may face emission limits for the first time if EPA rules pass
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Power plants may face emission limits for the first time if EPA rules pass
The proposal would keep up to 617 million metric tons of total carbon dioxide from spilling into the atmosphere through 2042.
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Researcher Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them
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Researcher Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them
The former Googler and current Signal president on why she thinks Geoffrey Hinton’s alarmism is a distraction from more pressing threats.
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Pentagon Proposes Bold Move to Cut Congressional Approval in the Development of Breakthrough Technologies
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Pentagon Proposes Bold Move to Cut Red Tape in the Development of Breakthrough Technologies - The Debrief
The Pentagon is requesting new authorities that would allow it to develop breakthrough technologies without pre-approval from Congress.
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Disney+ loses subscribers for second quarter in a row, drops 4M subs
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Disney+ loses subscribers for second quarter in a row, drops 4M subs
As Disney approaches its third round of expected layoffs and deals with production delays due to the ongoing writers strike, the company delivered more bad news to investors. Its flagship streaming service, Disney+, lost four million subscribers in Q2 2023…
India first democracy to ban encrypted messaging apps on massive scale. Only days before Press Freedom Day, India banned apps for secure communication because of "terrorists" use.
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India first democracy to ban encrypted messaging apps on massive scale. | Tuta
Only days before Press Freedom Day, India banned apps for secure communication because of "terrorists" use.
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Twitter appeared to limit the reach of investigative news site Bellingcat days after Elon Musk suggested its Texas mall shooter investigation was a 'psyop'
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Twitter appeared to limit the reach of investigative news site Bellingcat days after Elon Musk suggested its Texas mall shooter…
Bellingcat reported Tuesday that Mauricio Garcia, the Allen, Texas mall shooter, had shared white supremacist memes on Russian social media.
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Amazon Delivery Drivers Unionized. Now They Have to Prove They Work For Amazon
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Amazon Delivery Drivers Unionized. Now They Have to Prove They Work For Amazon
The Teamsters say that Amazon is in “complete control” of the conditions which caused drivers to organize. Amazon has declined to bargain.
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Hewlett-Packard hit with complaints after disabling printers that use rival firms’ ink cartridges
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Hewlett-Packard hit with complaints after disabling printers that use rival firms’ ink cartridges
Hewlett-Packard has prompted an onslaught of complaints after disabling printers of customers who try to use ink from rival companies.
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Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over massive spike in car thefts
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Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over massive spike in car thefts
Car thefts in the city have nearly doubled this year compared to the same time last year, part of a nationwide trend after videos showing how to easily steal the vehicles racked up millions of views on TikTok. Certain Kia or Hyundai models can be stolen using…
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Google confirms Reports of Ad Blockers Being Banned on YouTube
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Google Responds to Reports of Ad Blockers Being Banned on YouTube - IGN
Google confirmed that it is currently experimenting with a feature that limits the use of ad blockers on YouTube.
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Tinder cracks down on OnlyFans and sugar daddy ads by removing social handles from user bios
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Tinder cracks down on OnlyFans and sugar daddy ads by removing social handles
Tinder is taking a no-tolerance stance towards users using the dating app to promote businesses, especially sex work
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Toyota: Car location data of 2 million customers exposed for ten years
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Toyota: Car location data of 2 million customers exposed for ten years
Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.
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Millions of Android phones come with pre-installed malware, and there's no easy fix
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Millions of Android phones come with pre-installed malware, and there's no easy fix
Last month, we learned that malware had been discovered in 60 Android apps with over 100 million downloads – another black eye for the mobile operating system...
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An explosive new lawsuit claims TikTok's owner built a ‘backdoor’ that allowed the CCP to access US user data
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An explosive new lawsuit claims TikTok's owner built a 'backdoor' the CCP could exploit
The complaint says ByteDance had a "backdoor channel in the code" that would allow access to US user data, regardless of where it was hosted.
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California may need to invest up to $50B in readying grid for electrification influx: report
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California may need to invest up to $50B in readying grid for electrification influx: report
California may need to invest up to $50 billion in updating its electricity grid over the next 12 years in order to fulfill its climate goals, a new report has found. The landmark SB 100 bill, pass…
Former executive of TikTok parent company claims China ‘maintained’ access to US data
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Former executive of TikTok parent company claims China ‘maintained’ access to US data
A former executive for TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has claimed that the Chinese government “maintained” access to the company’s U.S. data. Yintao Yu, who served as the head of eng…
Why the video game industry is making a big mistake by ignoring older adults
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Why the video game industry is making a big mistake by ignoring older adults
In April, AARP held its first Games Summit at its headquarters in Washington D.C., and for many people outside the video game industry, the event might seem like a head-scratcher. An organization focused ...
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Cancer patients are being bombarded with dangerous 'miracle cures' on Facebook
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Study Finds
Cancer patients are being bombarded with dangerous ‘miracle cures’ on Facebook
the husband of one cancer patient is warning that the social media platform could be providing people with bogus treatments for the disease.
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Despairing about climate change? These four charts on the unstoppable growth of solar may change your mind
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Despairing about climate change? These four charts on the unstoppable growth of solar may change your mind
Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined.
Long popular in Asia, floating solar catches on in the U.S.
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Long popular in Asia, floating solar catches on in the U.S.
Floating solar is already going strong in Asia, from India to China. Now developers are taking inspiration from that and the technology is starting to spread more quickly in the United States.