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The organizers of a high-profile open letter last March calling for a "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence lost that battle, but they could be winning a longer-term fight to persuade the world to slow AI down.

MGM Resorts is back online after a huge cyberattack. The hack might have cost the Vegas casino operator $80 million.::MGM Resorts’ customer-facing, electronic systems were largely taken out in a cyberattack that had also targeted Caesars Entertainment.

Elon Musk: X/Twitter to charge all users with monthly subscription fees::undefined

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Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry to Earth - The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space’s capsule to return and land on Earth::The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space’s capsule to return and land on Earth.

Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage::The Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked dozens of terabytes of sensitive data starting in July 2020 while contributing open-source AI learning models to a public GitHub repository.

California’s Delete Act will make erasing consumers’ data easier | Advertisers aren’t happy in the slightest, of course::undefined

Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself::Hydrogen is viewed as a promising alternative to fossil fuel, but the methods used to make it either generate too much carbon dioxide or are too expensive. Rice University researchers have found a way to harvest hydrogen …

This may be the only time you will ever see the phrase “Swedish gangster rap,” so enjoy it.

Google lays off hundreds on recruiting team::The tech giant is making the move as hiring slows, but says it will retain a significant majority of recruiting staff.

Amazon Prime Video took a different approach during the offseason as it looked to improve its coverage of “Thursday Night Football.”...

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YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate’s videos, court says::YouTube had the discretion to take down content that harmed users, judge said.

For as long as I could remember, computers had been a fascination for me. The hum of their fans, the glow of their screens—it was a world of possibilities and connections. So when Roy Schestowitz, my eccentric and tech-savvy boyfriend, proposed an unconventional plan to spend a month dumpster diving for computer equipment, I...

New study shows large language models have high toxic probabilities and leak private information::Generative AI may be riddled with hallucinations, misinformation, and bias, but that didn’t stop over half of respondents in a recent global study from saying that they would use this nascent technology for sensitive areas …