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Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago Apple Tim Cook

Private German Rocket Makes History, Reaches Orbit From European Soil (science.slashdot.org)
14 days ago Germany Europe

How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work (www.nytimes.com)
14 days ago AI

2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel (news.slashdot.org)
15 days ago

Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Trump AI

Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (www.ft.com)
15 days ago Uber

How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters (politics.slashdot.org)
15 days ago AI

To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City' (games.slashdot.org)
15 days ago

OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch (fortune.com)
15 days ago

The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (www.ft.com)
15 days ago Texas

As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago AI

FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript (news.slashdot.org)
15 days ago

The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People - for the First Time In History (slashdot.org)
15 days ago

Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously” (abcnews.com)
15 days ago Trump

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (www.geekwire.com)
15 days ago Microsoft AI Seattle

Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Switzerland

Cancer Deaths Attributable to Alcohol Rose 58% Over the Last 33 Years (science.slashdot.org)
15 days ago

Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans (www.reuters.com)
15 days ago Germany

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (www.theverge.com)
15 days ago AI

Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 days ago Blockchain

Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data (yro.slashdot.org)
15 days ago

Handle PDFs on your Mac like an expert with this $80 deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 days ago

Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles (restofworld.org)
15 days ago China AI Credit Card

OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 days ago AI

OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox (slashdot.org)
15 days ago Germany

In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment (x.com)
16 days ago

Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago China AI

Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (arstechnica.com)
16 days ago Microsoft AI

The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia (therecord.media)
16 days ago Asia Southeast Asia

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