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Jury selection begins Monday in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California, in a civil trial featuring one tech billionaire, Elon Musk, who is suing another, Sam Altman.
Engadget - 15 hours 52 min agoNo more getting caught by a forced Windows 11 update while you're in the middle of a meeting or a match. Microsoft announced some major changes coming to Windows Update on its blog , including the ability to indefinitely pause Windows updates, 35 days at a time. To give users more control, Windows Update introduced the option to extend update pauses as much as users want. Once you opted to pause updates for Windows 11, you won't be disturbed for 35 days at a time, but you can now reset this...
Engadget - 17 hours 34 min agoManitoba could be the first province in Canada to establish a social media ban for kids, but the proposal's details aren't very clear yet. The province's premier, Wab Kinew, announced during a fundraiser event on Saturday and on X that Manitoba would put in place a ban for social media and AI chatbots for its youth. "They're doing these very awful things to kids all in the name of a few likes, all in the name of more engagement, and all in the name of money," Kinew said at...
Engadget - 18 hours 51 min agoAs reported by several outlets , the Trump administration dismissed members of the National Science Board (NSB), which is tasked with establishing policies for the National Science Foundation. It's not clear how many members have been dismissed. According to screenshots shared with The Washington Post, board members received a message that their position was "terminated, effective immediately. The NSB establishes policies for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the independent US agency...
If you're being unusually polite to your chatbot just in case of a robot uprising, there may be a practical upside. Platformer reports new research suggests that large language models perform differently depending on internal, emotion-like states and that a little encouragement can make them more effective. Users have long...
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Tesla chief believes Altman broke company's founding agreement and legal battle promises to be explosive The bitter rivalry between two of the tech world's most powerful men arrives in court this week, as Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI heads to trial in Oakland, California. The case is set to feature some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and its outcome could affect the course of the AI boom. Musk's suit, filed in 2024, focuses on the formative years of...
Silicon Valley may be obsessed with "disruption," but the Verge's Elizabeth Lopatto argues what's really disrupted is its grasp of how regular people actually live. In a sharply observed essay, she says today's tech class is increasingly building products for their own fantasies rather than for real-world needs: "At some...
After nearly 60 years of marriage, Pam wanted to honour her husband Bill with a hologram at his funeral.
John Ternus, Apple's next chief executive, is a company veteran who ran Apple's hardware engineering.
It's a weird gig in the age of AI: Companies will pay you up to $25 an hour to fold your own laundry, wash your own dishes, or cook your own meals. The catch, as both the Washington Post and the MIT Technology Review explain, is that you have strap...
GeekSpin - 1 day 22 hours agoA fake Windows update is out there stealing users passwords and other sensitive data. The scam looks like a normal Microsoft update page, complete with official-looking branding, a fake knowledge base number, and a big blue download button. However, instead of patching your PC, the file installs malware that can steal saved passwords, payment details, […] Read the original article here: Microsoft warns of fake update site stealing passwords...
Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
The boss of the controversial tech company with UK government contracts published a 22-point plan on the future of the West.
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