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Apple privately asked Amazon to block rival ads. Insider found evidence of this special treatment, while others suffer from ‘junk ads’::An internal Amazon email shows that Apple asked the e-commerce giant for special treatment that most other brands don’t get.

Tensor Trust is an online game that allows players to exploit prompt injection vulnerabilities in ChatGPT against other player’s preset defense instructions of user input context and valuation, for research purposes

Impatient LockBit says it’s leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land::Aerospace titan pores over data to see if dump is legit

Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn’t easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of...

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 100 million weekly users::100 million people are using its ChatGPT chatbot on a weekly basis, OpenAI has said at its developer conference. Over 2M developers are also building on its API.

‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games is battling Google in court over app-store fees 2 years after largely losing a similar case against Apple::Epic Games is taking aim at the commissions that Google charges on digital purchases made within a mobile app.

The bosses of rival chip giants Nvidia and AMD are cousins, researcher says::Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are first cousins once removed, according to a genealogist.

YouTube Wants to Stop Sending Kids Down the Rabbit Hole of Eating Disorder Videos.::YouTube announced a new effort to curb its own recommendation algorithms to protect teenagers from the rabbit hole of videos that could inspire eating disorders, body image problems, violence, and other problems. The new initiative comes amidst a...

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Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has quietly restricted access to several channels affiliated with the Palestinian armed group Hamas....

Tech Billionaires’ Quest to Build a New City in California Is Already Mired in Trouble::A legal battle is already brewing over a quixotic attempt to build a new city on Bay Area farmland.

Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment::She can hear her mother and dance to the music. But why is it so noisy at night?

Blood test findings by Toronto doctors can detect cancerous tumour before it develops::Doctors at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and The Hospital for Sick Children are helping detect cancer in some patients before a tumour develops or shows up on a medical scan.

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Thousands of IT workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI says::ST. LOUIS (AP) — Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars...