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Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3M Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds
When thousands of security researchers descend on Las Vegas every August for what's come to be...
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What Is a Pig Butchering Scam? (2023)
Though carrying off pig butchering scams takes a lot of communication and relationship building with victims...
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Musk's X Suspends Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Alleged Identity
Hours later, the account associated with the Anonymous Comrades Collective that posted the thread was deleted,...
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8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story
Eight names are listed as authors on “Attention Is All You Need,” a scientific paper written...
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People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities–Until They Live in One
London had a problem. In 2016, more than 2 million of the city’s residents—roughly a quarter...
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EVs with Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China
Chinese automakers are starting to equip electric cars with camera drones. For now, this drone integration...
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Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself
When Michael Seibel lost his position at the startup incubator Y Combinator, he didn’t find out...
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Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others...
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States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies...
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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying
The second slide in Turner’s presentation featured the tweet by Foldi, which likewise references a march...
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The Zayed Sustainability Prize has launched a US$600K award for Climate Action
The world desperately needs new ways to tackle our climate crisis. But coming up with innovative...
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Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls
Mobile World Congress always has more than its fair share of weird. Last week at MWC,...
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Law enforcement doesn't want to be "customer service" reps for Meta any more
Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are...
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Google Is Finally Trying to Kill AI Clickbait
Google is taking action against algorithmically generated spam. The search engine giant just announced upcoming changes,...
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Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Received a $22M Payment
The ransomware attack targeting medical firm Change Healthcare has been one of the most disruptive in...
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JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally
Lex Fridman has done many long interviews on his popular podcast. Even so, the episode with...