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David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85
He developed and implemented the protocol that synchronizes the digital clocks nestled within billions of networked...
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23andMe Breach Targeted Jewish and Chinese Customers, Lawsuit Says
The class-action suit said the genetic testing company failed to notify customers whose personal information was...
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Apple Takes Messaging Crackdown to Customers’ Macs
Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android...
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Fake Explicit Taylor Swift Images Swamp Social Media
Fans of the star and lawmakers condemned the images, probably generated by artificial intelligence, after they...
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Mediapocalypse Now, a16z’s Chris Dixon Defends Crypto, and HatGPT
Strangely a lot of pro wrestling in this episode.
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Is Cryptocurrency Like Stocks and Bonds? Courts Move Closer to an Answer.
Federal judges are weighing whether digital currencies should be subject to the same rules as stocks...
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L.A. County to Pay $5 Million to Election Executive Wrongly Charged With Data Breach
Eugene Yu, the owner of an election software company, was arrested in 2022 on charges of...
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Elon Musk Spreads Election Misinformation on X Without Fact Checkers
Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden...
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Cruise Says Hostility to Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars
A law firm’s review found that executives had failed to fully explain an October crash, which...
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Microsoft, Amazon and Google Face F.T.C. Inquiry Over A.I. Deals
The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups...
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N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers.
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Apple Overhauls App Store in Europe, in Response to New Digital Law
An E.U. law taking effect in March forced Apple to loosen its grip on the App...
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Microsoft Cuts 1,900 Jobs in Its Video Game Division
The reductions come three months after the tech giant completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision...
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That Spotify Daylist That Really ‘Gets’ You? It Was Written by A.I.
The music-streaming platform’s new “daylist” feature serves users three personalized playlists a day, with titles ranging...
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The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I.
The office is reviewing how centuries-old laws should apply to artificial intelligence technology, with both content...
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the Big Shift in True Crime
Not long ago, true crime storytellers had little in the way of first-person footage captured in...
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Tesla Profit From Car Sales Falls as Price Cuts Hurt
A tax benefit boosted quarterly earnings, but that masked a decline in earnings from carmaking caused...
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Making VR Headsets Cool Won’t Be Easy, Even for Apple
Starting with Google Glass, all have been plagued with the same issues, even as Apple plunges...
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New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls Mimicking Biden
The calls, in a voice most likely artificially generated, urged people not to vote in Tuesday’s...
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Even Rats Are Taking Selfies Now (and Enjoying It)
A photographer trained two rats to take photographs of themselves. They didn’t want to stop.
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Microsoft Executives’ Emails Hacked by Group Tied to Russian Intelligence
The hackers appeared to be trying to learn what the company knew about them, a regulatory...
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Astrobotic’s Peregrine Moon Lander Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere
The Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft launched last week for a lunar landing, but a propulsion malfunction left...
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Apple Takes a Humble Approach to Launching Its Newest Device
The Vision Pro augmented reality device goes on sale Friday. Don’t expect Apple to host a...
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The A.I. Election, Bitcoin’s Wall Street Debut and TikTok’s Doodad Era
“Two truly terrible ways to make money this week.”