Austrian activist Schrems wins privacy case against Meta over personal data on sexual orientation
LONDON — The European Union’s top court said Friday that social media company Meta can’t use public information about a user’s sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising…
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Google says it will stop linking to New Zealand news if a law passes forcing it to pay for content
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Google said Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news content and will reverse its support of local media outlets if the government passes a…
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The Nobel Prizes will be announced against a backdrop of wars, famine and artificial intelligence
STAVANGER, Norway — Wars, a refugee crisis, famine and artificial intelligence could all be recognized when Nobel Prize announcements begin next week under a shroud of violence. The prize week…
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Collapse of national security elites’ cyber firm leaves bitter wake
WASHINGTON — The future was once dazzling for IronNet. Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked with elite members of the U.S. intelligence establishment, IronNet…
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The US and Microsoft disrupt a Russian hacking group targeting American officials and nonprofits
WASHINGTON — A hacking group tied to Russian intelligence tried to worm its way into the systems of dozens of Western think tanks, journalists and former military and intelligence officials,…
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PFF adds an in-game grading feature to its NFL analysis
Pro Football Focus changed how many fans followed the NFL by providing grades and advanced statistics to help quantify how every player performed on a play-by-play basis from high-profile quarterbacks…
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Google’s search engine’s latest AI injection will answer voiced questions about images
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is injecting its search engine with more artificial intelligence that will enable people to voice questions about images and occasionally organize an entire page of results,…
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Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera
Tesla is recalling more than 27,000 Cybertrucks because the rearview camera image may not activate immediately after shifting into reverse, the fifth recall for the vehicle since it went on…
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Dutch government blames a ‘state actor’ for hacking a police network
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A cyberattack that broke into a police account and accessed work-related contact details of all Dutch police officers was almost certainly carried out by hackers working…
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In South Korea, deepfake porn wrecks women’s lives and deepens gender conflict
SEOUL, South Korea — Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she is still being treated for trauma….
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