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Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the Macintosh computer, scheduled to launch early the next year. Everyone kept telling me,...
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Lawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warns | TechCrunch
The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work.In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools...
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Trump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rules | TechCrunch
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that revises and rolls back cybersecurity policies set in place by his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.In a White House fact sheet, the administration claims that Biden’s Executive Order...
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Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight – Slashdot
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Cybercriminals have been increasingly turning to "residential proxy" services over the past two to three years to disguise malicious web traffic as everyday online activity, according to research presented at the Sleuthcon cybercrime conference. The shift represents a...
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Experts offer advice to new college grads on entering the workforce in the age of AI
New college graduates this year face an especially daunting task — putting their degrees to work just as "generative" artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT is beginning to change the American workplace. "We are entering an entirely...
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Genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics criticized for its embryo product: ‘Makes me so nauseous’ | TechCrunch
Nucleus Genomics, a genetic testing startup founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, initially launched in 2021 with the goal of calculating a patient’s risk for specific diseases. But it’s been courting controversy for years with products that claim to tell people...
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Could we build space-time computers that run on gravity?
A mathematical test for the nature of space-time – the fabric of physical reality – may be the first...
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NatWest fixes app outage which left customers fuming
Tom GerkenTechnology reporterGetty ImagesNatWest says it has now fixed an issue which left customers unable to use the bank's mobile app, leaving some unable to access their accounts.Customers reported problems including being unable to make purchases or pay staff.NatWest...
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Investigation finds social media companies help enable explicit deepfakes with ads for AI tools
Investigation finds social media companies help enable explicit deepfakes with ads for AI tools - CBS News ...