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Palantir's opacity makes oversight difficult and mistakes and biases can affect countless people.

Analytics are a military and financial tool. Your blog is not and you shouldn’t surveil you readers.

: Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries

Intel no longer has to fulfill certain requirements or meet milestones that it was originally supposed to under the CHIPS Act.

The Adafruit Fruit Jam is a credit card-sized RP2350-powered mini computer that is designed to run classic Macintosh through the uMac emulator. It

The partnership between Palantir and the federal government raises fundamental questions about accountability in a data-driven state.

According to the Financial Times, UK's Home Office has also yet to legally withdraw or change its order for Apple to create backdoor access to its users' data.

A €16,100 fine for sarcasm reveals how Germany’s legal code now moonlights as a mood ring for the powerful.

Online shopping is about to get a lot more complicated — and expensive — as Trump ends a popular shipping loophole

Do you register with Google, Amazon or Microsoft to use the web?

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

Today, Microsoft unveiled two in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system now live in Copilot, and MAI-1-Preview, its first end-to-end foundation model trained on 15,000 H100 GPUs. Neowin reports: MAI-Voice-1 is a speech generation model and is already available in Copilo...

The publication says the time is right to pour all of its resources into its online news operation and get its journalism “in front of the most people.”

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

South Korea has banned smartphones in middle and elementary school classrooms, a ruling that goes into effect in 2026. This is the latest country to make a similar move.

The notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.

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A new study shows that AI is affecting the job market very differently for young workers than older ones

CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.

ChatGPT-powered Hyodol robots are helping overburdened caregivers while providing companionship to lonely seniors across South Korea.

The company notched some huge milestones on Starship Flight 10.

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.

Apple supplier TSMC is anticipated to start full-scale production of 2-nanometer chips by the end of 2025, with Apple apparently occupying close to half of the total manufacturing capacity.

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

Google DeepMind's new "nano banana" model (officially named Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) has taken the top spot on AI image-editing leaderboards by delivering far more consistent edits than before. It's being rolled out to the Gemini app today. Ars Technica has the details: AI image editing allows you t...

A lawsuit argues that the American Dream mall, by allowing the sale of lumber, furniture and “wearing apparel” on Sundays, has violated a “blue law” descended from a 1798 statute.

Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program as AI and data infrastructure take center stage.

The tech giant plans to spend tens of millions backing candidates in state races.

If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard.