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Cybersecurity agency warns that water utilities are vulnerable to hackers after Pennsylvania attack

The top U.S. cyberdefense agency says hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities

22 hr ago

Michigan to join state-level effort to regulate AI political ads

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign legislation in the coming days aimed at curbing deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media

Nov. 29, 2023

Blackstone acquires pet care app Rover in $2.3 billion all-cash deal

Private equity giant Blackstone will acquire the pet care app Rover in an all-cash deal valued at $2.3 billion, the companies announced Wednesday

Nov. 29, 2023

Feminist website Jezebel will be relaunched by Paste Magazine less than a month after shutting down

The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down

22 hr ago

Indiana judge dismisses state's lawsuit against TikTok that alleged child safety, privacy concerns

An Indiana county judge has dismissed a state lawsuit filed against TikTok that had accused the app of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of consumers’ personal information

19 hr ago

Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024

Meta says it has found and disabled thousands of fake Facebook accounts linked to China that were used to spread politically partisan content in the United States before next year’s election

7 hr ago

Musk uses expletive to tell audience he doesn't care about advertisers that fled X over hate speech

Billionaire Elon Musk has said advertisers who have halted spending on his social media platform X in response to antisemitic and other hateful material are engaging in “blackmail.”

17 hr ago

Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1B class-action lawsuit after promoting for Binance NFTs

Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a billion dollar class-action lawsuit over his role in promoting cryptocurrency-related “non-fungible tokens,” or NFTs, issued by the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange Binance

1 hr ago

Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT

City lawmakers in Brazil passed what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn’t know it at the time

1 hr ago

Penguin parents sleep for just a few seconds at a time to guard newborns, study shows

Researchers have discovered that some penguin parents sleep for only seconds at a time around-the-clock to protect their eggs and chicks

2 hr ago

Toyota selling part of Denso stake to raise cash to develop electric vehicles

Toyota is selling a part of its stake in components maker Denso to raise cash for its drive toward electric vehicles and other innovations

Nov. 29, 2023

Six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way

A rare solar system with planets moving like an orchestra was discovered.

Nov. 29, 2023

UN atomic chief backs nuclear power at COP28 as world reckons with proliferation

The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power

7 hr ago

New technology installed beneath Detroit street can charge electric vehicles as they drive

Crews have installed what’s billed as the nation’s first wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles beneath a street west of downtown Detroit

23 hr ago

Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case

The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users ...

9 min ago

Tesla delivers about a dozen stainless steel Cybertruck pickups as it tries to fix production woes

With manufacturing kinks still to be worked out, Tesla has delivered the first dozen or so of its futuristic Cybertruck pickups to customers

9 min ago

Fake AI-generated woman on tech conference agenda leads Microsoft and Amazon execs to drop out

Tech executives at Microsoft and Amazon have dropped out of an upcoming software conference after at least one of the women on the agenda turned out to be fake

Nov. 28, 2023

‘Get Ready With Me’: Video genre that focuses on everyday life is everywhere — and not slowing down

More than a decade after debuting on the once-nascent YouTube creator community, “Get Ready with Me” videos have inundated social media

Nov. 27, 2023

Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI's power to mislead

The war in Gaza is highlighting the latest advances in artificial intelligence as a way to spread fake images and disinformation

Nov. 29, 2023

Morgan Wallen tops Apple Music's 2023 song chart while Taylor Swift, SZA also lead streaming lists

Country singer Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” tops Apple Music’s global song chart in 2023

Nov. 29, 2023

What's Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023? Hint: Be true to yourself

Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”

Nov. 27, 2023

Ransomware attack prompts multistate hospital chain to divert some emergency room patients elsewhere

A ransomware attack has prompted a health care chain with operations in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals

Nov. 28, 2023

Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say

A newly unsealed legal complaint claims Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids

Nov. 26, 2023

Amazon launches Q, a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence

Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT

Nov. 28, 2023

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories at the dawn of the artificial intelligence age

Nov. 28, 2023

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