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Proofpoint lays off 280 workers as tech cuts jobs
The cybersecurity company is cutting around 280 jobs worldwide, or 6% of its total workforce of 4,500, according to local media reports in Israel.
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Digital watermarking and the future of online trust
With half the world’s population invited to vote this year, and fears mounting over deepfakes and other fabricated narratives being circulated to sway elections, now is probably a good time to be running a digital watermarking company.
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Biased predictive policing funded by US gov, lawmakers say
A cadre of Democratic lawmakers are demanding the federal government stop funding predictive policing systems due to their racist and discriminatory algorithms.
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MSCHF tests copyright limits with streaming project
The Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF turns the macOS Terminal app and Windows Command Prompt into a text-based movie-streaming experience.
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Musk: Neuralink succeeds at first human brain implant
Elon Musk said his brain chip start-up Neuralink successfully completed its first ever human trial to implant its experimental wireless brain-computer interface and the patient is doing well.
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Mars helicopter mission ends over rotor damage
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first to fly on another planet, has damaged one of its rotor blades while on a mission on the Red planet, forcing the craft to the ground for good.
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Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox staff
Microsoft is cutting around 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, news website The Verge reported on Thursday, citing an internal memo from the head of the company's gaming division.
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Chickpeas sprouted on Moon soil, thanks to fungi
Extraterrestrial agriculture is the key to food sustainability in a quest for space exploration. In a recent push, researchers have successfully cultivated chickpeas in the Moon’s soil.
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Robots can now groove with human-like walk
Scientists have reached a breakthrough in robotics, enabling robots to achieve human-like walking using a musculoskeletal model.
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Apple will pay artists 10% higher royalties for spatial music
Apple wants to incentivize more artists to make their music available in an immersive Spatial Audio experience.
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TikTok shopping scams and how to avoid them
TikTok is one of the popular social media sites that advertises cheap and cheerful products. However, users run the risk of encountering scammers who advertise false goods for a price.
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AI and big data: the energy suckers of the future
The growing amounts of data created each year, combined with the pursuit of AI capabilities, are expected to put a huge strain on the world’s energy resources over the next decade – or at least until quantum computing becomes the norm.
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Tesla bot’s rival Figure partners with BMW
Robotics startup Figure has signed an agreement with BMW to deploy humanoid robots at the automaker’s manufacturing facility in South Carolina.
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Court bars US Apple Watch imports during appeal over ban
Apple Watches capable of reading blood-oxygen levels cannot be imported into the US while Apple challenges a government decision that the devices infringe patents.
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Pirates beware: covert cyber gang hijacking brains of Android TVs
Researchers have discovered over 100,000 Android TVs and set-top boxes infected with unknown malware, which is being spread via pirated movie and TV apps and backdoored firmware. They warn that this may be just the tip of the iceberg.
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Redesigned Apple Watches not subject to import ban, US Customs says
A US law enforcement agency has determined that Apple can use a redesign to bypass an import ban on newer Apple Watch models stemming from its patent infringement dispute with Masimo, the medical-monitoring technology company said in a court filing on Monday.
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Mystery surrounds the LG washing machine hogging 3.6GB of data per day
“WTF! Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?” This was an X user’s reaction after discovering the obscure behavior of his appliance. The post, viewed more than 17 million times, quickly turned into a controversy and a meme. But the explanation might be simple – and rather boring.
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Google and Bing placing nonconsensual explicit deepfake content at top of search results – media
Nonconsensual deepfake pornography is regularly found at the top of search engine results on Google and Microsoft’s Bing, NBC News reports.
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HelloFresh fined for millions of spam texts and emails
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data watchdog, issued a £140K ($178K) fine to HelloFresh for sending 79 million spam emails and one million texts in only seven months.
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In PSYOPS capitalism, humans constantly bombarded by cognitive injection attacks
The paperclip apocalypse has already been set in motion, but instead of paperclips, AI overlords are replacing the world with listicles and clickbait. Cognitive warfare is now a standard part of marketing, sales, management, politics, and even culture at large as we move from an era of surveillance capitalism into a PSYOPS capitalism, American author and artist Trevor Paglen warns.
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