
NY Post - 22 hours 40 min ago
The Instagram parent claims it could face $1.4 trillion in damages nearly the size of its entire market cap based on how a coalition of state attorneys general argue that penalties should be calculated. The states say a more realistic figure if Meta loses the case would be a still-unprecedented $200 billion in...

Observer - 1 day 1 hour ago
American University's Casey Evans asks what parents are really paying for when A.I. can deliver much of the knowledge that once defined a college education. Evans argues that the strongest programs will be those that pair A.I. fluency with judgment, communication, adaptability and problem-solving.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 1 hour ago
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD's plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as triaging problems, debugging code, and testing the software. At the time, we were hoping for a 25 percent productivity boost from AI use over the course of two or three years. But with each new release, the capabilities of Large Language Models...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 2 hours ago
The Motion Picture Assn. said it reached an agreement with ByteDance over its AI tools.

Newser - 1 day 3 hours ago
A stack of rare books led 404 Media straight to an Amazon operation that scans and destroys such works for its AI training. Reporter Emanuel Maiberg writes that his outlet slipped an Apple AirTag into an obscure title included in a 1,000-book bulk order placed through marketplace site Biblio ...

GeekSpin - 1 day 3 hours ago
It's always a wild ride when DEF CON wraps up in Sin City, and this year's “hacker summer camp” was no exception. What started as a standard flight home turned into an airborne cybersecurity incident when a Delta Air Lines flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta was hit by a mid-air Wi-Fi phishing attack. The […] Read the original article here: Fake Wi-Fi on Delta flight triggers federal investigation...

Air and Space - 1 day 3 hours ago
Newly uncovered documents reveal the story of David Maltbie, who relayed intelligence to the patriots in 1776, narrowly avoiding execution as a spy...

GeekSpin - 1 day 4 hours ago
What happens when seven decades of television history suddenly become inaccessible because a cloud storage company disappears? That is the nightmare now facing Nine PBS, which has reportedly lost access to more than 50TB of archival material spanning 70 years after its storage provider, Open Source Storage, went out of business. The archive includes programs, […] Read the original article here: PBS loses 70 years of TV archives to cloud mishap...

Science Alert - 1 day 4 hours ago
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NPR - 1 day 6 hours ago
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Fortune Magazine AI reporter Beatrice Nolan about the invisible watermark embedded in anything new models of Anthropic's AI assistant Claude processes.

BBC - 1 day 10 hours ago
US states are suing the social media giant to force an overhaul of its platforms for young users.

BBC - 1 day 15 hours ago
Thirty US states have sued Meta to force an overhaul of its platforms for young users.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 17 hours ago
A federal judge dealt a blow to Meta just days before a blockbuster trial where the company is accused of developing products that are addictive to children.

NY Post - 2 days 13 hours ago
"Long gone are the days when revolutions involved pitchforks, torches, and angry mobs "...