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Trump Wants Venezuela’s Oil. Getting It Might Not Be So Simple
President Donald Trump has made it clear: His vision for Venezuela’s future involves the US profiting from its oil.“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in, spend billions of dollars,...
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French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes | TechCrunch
Over the past few days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors.The chatbot, built by Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI and featured on his social media platform X, posted...
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Improve Your Telescope With a Security Camera Sensor
When it comes to viewing nebulae, galaxies, and other deep-sky objects, amateur astronomers on a budget have had two options. They can view with the naked eye through a telescope and perceive these spectacular objects as faint smudges that...
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Reddit Surges in Popularity to Overtake TikTok in the UK – Thanks to Google’s Algorithm? – Slashdot
Reddit "has overtaken TikTok as Britain's fourth most-visited social media service," reports the Guardian:The platform has undergone huge growth over the last two years, with an 88% increase in the proportion of UK internet users it reaches. Three...
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Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture
Within minutes of Donald Trump announcing in the early hours of Saturday morning that US troops had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, disinformation about the operation flooded social media.Some people shared old videos across...
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How to Protect Your iPhone or Android Device From Spyware
Infection usually starts through malicious links and fake apps, but it is also taking place via “more subtle methods,” says Richard LaTulip, a field CISO at security company Recorded Future, which collaborated with Google’s threat intelligence team on the...
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Grok chatbot allowed users to create digitally altered photos of minors in
Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, acknowledged "lapses in safeguards" on the AI platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors.The admission comes after multiple users alleged...
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India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over ‘obscene’ AI content | TechCrunch
India has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women created using the tool.On Friday, India’s...
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Watch Scuttle Go From Research Project to Commercial Farming Robot
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for...
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Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments | TechCrunch
No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over three years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have...
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South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung to meet China’s Xi
Jake Kwon,Seoul correspondentandKoh EweGetty ImagesSouth Korea's President Lee Jae Myung is set to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping as...