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Today on TAP: Yass’s payoffs to Trump are part of his efforts to destroy democracy in the U.S. and Israel, while helping China.

Find out the ethical concerns and legal challenges ahead of Hollywood if the studios partner up with SORA Video AI generation.

Women, younger workers and lower paid are at most risk from artificial intelligence, says IPPR thinktank

Prior to this, Croatia was the most recent country to join the Schengen Area.

Fishing companies say long waits between seasons can be common, but labor experts say offshore foreign workers are “uniquely unprotected” under U.S. policies.

How Congress and the courts would abet a radical transformation of American life.

The infamous Russian disinformation troll factory founded by Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was thought to shut down after his death, but Scripps News has learned his sprawling disinformation empire never stopped and Artificial Intelligence is amplifying its reach.

This letter, signed by more than 20 election cybersecurity experts, was addressed to the Pennsylvania State Senate Committee on Government in response to

Well, it seems like transaction info is something people are more interested in than I expected, so I wanted to tackle one more thing. So often in App Store discussions, we talk about Apple’s 30% cut of each in-app purchase on iPhones and how that’s so much higher

From Knowledge To Curation: How AI Is Ushering In A New Economic Paradigm. Our feature examines how AI is impacting the economy and the nature of work itself.

As costs fall and user experience improves, there is potential for humanoid robots to become an everyday part of business operations.

Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China.

“Natural asset companies” would put a market price on improving ecosystems, rather than on destroying them.

The use of police dogs enacts cruelty on people of color and the dogs themselves. To fully rid society of slavery, the dogs must be retired.

Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used in entirely different ways, for different purposes, in different industries? How about if it’s changing entirely every 18 months?

Around 66 countries have agreed on what the term 'remote working' means, but some U.S. tech companies have decided otherwise.

“Buy your mom an iPhone” really hits different now.

From movies to audiobooks: Your local library is a low-key, all-in-one entertainment destination.

We have the worst job environment for tech in over two decades and that’s with the “AI” bubble in full force. If that bubble pops hard before the job market recovers, the repercussions to the tech industry will likely eclipse the dot-com crash.

State surplus disposes of salvage and surplus personal property from Texas state agencies

The following story was originally published by ProPublica, written and photographed by the contributors listed below.  I’ve been donating to ProPublica for a number of years and encourage those wh…

In standard decision theory, an agent makes a choice in each of a large number of possible choice situations. If these choices satisfy some plausible rationality axioms, they can be represented by utility and belief functions over a set of possible states of the world. As the agent learns info, their beliefs update according to Bayes rule, but their utilities do not change. There are noisy versions of this, where agents make limited mistakes re this standard, and standard game theory is built on top of all this.)

Pornhub went dark in the state in protest.