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Goldman Sachs has lost billions of dollars on its consumer-focused businesses.

Pilot plant in Nevada uses tech from fracking to generate power in arid landscape.

TikTok owner ByteDance may be poised to slash much of its games business, including Nuverse, the unit that publishes "Marvel Snap."

Last week’s spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between “Effective Altruism” (doomers) and “Effective Accelerationism” (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of...

AI-driven voice cloning can make things far too easy for scammers – I know because I’ve tested it so that you don’t have to learn about the risks the hard way.

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Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.

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The platform cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on X and plans to devote its time to Mastodon.

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters....

YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

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The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.

In a statement, Google did not provide specifics but also did not deny implementing an artificial wait time. “To support a diverse ecosystem of creators globally and allow billions to access their favorite content on YouTube, we’ve launched an effort to urge viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try...

Kangaroo4 has curated a list of the top Amazon deals for the extended Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales event. The highlights include savings of up to 80% on items such as Samsung’s QLED TV…

Google appears to be intentionally slowing down YouTube on Mozilla Firefox, as a new video clearly demonstrates.

Altman is “ambivalent” and wants governance changes.

Google offers static PDF downloads for some content, refunds for others.

This is not an isolated case in the United States, a country that concentrates approximately 30% of all the data centers in the world. Arizona, Utah and South Carolina are well aware of the insatiable thirst of this type of infrastructure....

The Federal Communications Commission has approved a new set of rules aiming to prevent “digital discrimination.” It means the agency can hold telecom companies accountable for digitally discriminating against customers — or giving certain communities poorer service (or none at all) based on income level, race, or...

Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead penAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a seismic shift in the way we work. The days of commuting to the office, Monday to Friday, are over. More of us than ever are now working, at least some of the time, from home. And, that’s made it a lot easier to strike a healthier work-life balance....

Ad hoc Testing is done after the completion of the formal testing on the application or product. To do ad-hoc test, a tester must first analyze the application’s security and user-perceptible features. A well-informed tester must also understand an application’s architecture and if not familiar with an application, then the...