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‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators | TechCrunch
An unprecedented number of Apple customers have reported receiving a recent threat notification alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, according to experts who investigate these types of incidents. Several people publicly and privately reported receiving Apple’s spyware...
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IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship Honors Teen Innovators
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About 16 percent of the global population—more than 1 billion people—live with some form of disability, according to the World Health Organization. Many of the disabilities affect independence and mobility.Three high school students working on inventions to help people...
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The US is trying to kick foreign robots out, but the local supply chain might not be there yet
The FCC has a track record of using its Covered List to squeeze Chinese tech out of American markets, and robots just became its newest target. Foreign-made humanoids, quadrupeds, and even robot vacuums now need to be mostly built...
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Bipartisan ‘Uprising’ Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance? – Slashdot
Politico notes that over 20 local jurisdictions in America "either stopped using Flock cameras or began the process of doing so in July, according to a tracker maintained by DeFlock, an activist group that has been mapping the...
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Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates – or Processes – Slashdot
This week Anthropic announced its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, reports the blog Futurism. "It works by making subtle changes in the AI's word choices across the text it generates, which are supposed to...
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If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever
"Like" counts, for instance, have been part of Meta since its early years, when it was still called Facebook and that was its only platform.Today, likes are omnipresent on social media platforms. It is the main way in which...
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China’s Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried – Slashdot
"We are in a 21st century space race," U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has said. And this week CNN noted a competition that for decades loomed in the background of geopolitics "is now roaring to the...
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Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future | TechCrunch
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word essay this week declaring that “The Future is for Everyone” and painting an optimistic picture of a future powered by AI, where “everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that...
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Your holiday photos could help scammers figure out exactly where you are
That innocent holiday snap might be doing more than showing everyone how good the weather is. A new scam highlighted by The Guardian shows how criminals can use AI to analyse photos posted on Instagram and Facebook, work out...
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Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something.In a new paper in Nature, scientists have chronicled a “black hole star” that’s the size of our solar system and glows bright red in the depth...
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Ontario premier slams Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Seneca Nation calls for reversal
Ontario's head of government on Saturday erected a sign by Lake Ontario that reads "Lake...