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After defaulting on its debt two years ago, Chinese real estate developer Evergrande was meant to be restructured and allowed to get back on its feet. But that plan now looks to be in peril, after police detained its chairman as well as staff at a financing subsidiary....

According to minutes released under FOI, the European police agency pushed for unfiltered access to data that would be obtained under a proposed new scanning system for detecting child sexual abuse images on messaging apps, with a view, experts say, to training AI algorithms.

The second Republican presidential debate will be broadcast Wednesday on Fox Business Network and Univision, but the exclusive online livestream will take place on Rumble, an alternative video-sharing platform that has been criticized for allowing— and at times promoting — far-right extremism, bigotry, election...

NEW YORK (AP) — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission.

Murdoch compared to ‘mafia boss’ ordering hit in Smartmatic case — Fox Corp. is seeking dismissal from the $2.7 billion lawsuit::Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan were compared to mafia bosses trying to dodge punishment for the actions of their henchmen during a court hearing in a $2.7 billion...

Nintendo, one generation behind once again.

The U.S. Antarctic research program is in trouble, as canceled field seasons imperil data sets and demoralize researchers.

Back when we first revealed Hades II at The Game Awards in 2022, we said to expect more information on our plans for Early Access sometime in 2023. It’s time we shed some light on those plans!...

Are smart phones destroying our mental health?::undefined

Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,”...

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Ukraine has broken the first line of Russian defenses in some places and has had "some success" against the second, US official John Kirby said....

PAYWALL...

Experts say it’s less risky to catch Covid-19 than it used to be, but there are still good reasons not to treat it casually....

The Kremlin is considering options on bringing the private military group Wagner under its direct control after the presumed death of its leader, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, according to U.S. and Western officials....

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