Chicago’s African American community has had a lasting impact on it’s culture and history. The city’s first permanent settler was a Black man from Haiti, who is now honored with a downtown bridge and a renowned cultural museum. African- Americans would continue to shape the face of Chicago and the nation, from the Great Migration...
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Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says.
A major lawsuit against Meta has placed a spotlight on our fraught relationship with online social information.
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What the U.S. Has Argued in the Google Antitrust Trial
As the government wraps up its case in the landmark monopoly trial, it has built a picture of how Google became dominant in online search — and the harms that it says resulted.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify at His Fraud Trial
The FTX founder’s plan to take the witness stand sets up a dramatic few days of testimony at the federal courthouse in Manhattan.
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The Challenges Facing Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers
They are set to start their defense on Thursday, with the FTX founder planning to testify in his criminal fraud trial. Hurdles include what Mr. Bankman-Fried’s former associates said on the stand.
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Meta Posts 23% Growth as Ads Rebound, With Profit More Than Doubling
The internet company’s cost cuts also helped lift its financial performance in the most recent quarter.
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Pro-Russia hackers target inboxes with 0-day in webmail app used by millions
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A relentless team of pro-Russia hackers has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in widely used webmail software in attacks targeting governmental entities and a think tank, all in Europe, researchers from security firm ESET said on Wednesday. The previously unknown vulnerability resulted from a critical cross-site scripting error in Roundcube, a...
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University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a team of researchers at the University of Chicago released a research paper outlining “Nightshade,” a data poisoning technique aimed at disrupting the training process for AI models, reports MIT Technology Review and VentureBeat. The goal is to help visual artists and publishers protect their work from being used...
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Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
Enlarge / A section of Apple’s repair manual for the M2 MacBook Air from 2022. Apple already offers customers some repair manuals and parts through its Self-Service Repair program. (credit: Apple) Right-to-repair advocates have long stated that passing repair laws in individual states was worth the uphill battle. Once enough states demanded that manufacturers make...
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Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more
Enlarge (credit: Kim et al.) Researchers have devised an attack that forces Apple’s Safari browser to divulge passwords, Gmail message content, and other secrets by exploiting a side channel vulnerability in the A- and M-series CPUs running modern iOS and macOS devices. iLeakage, as the academic researchers have named the attack, is practical and requires...