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Seeing false and toxic information as a potentially expensive liability, companies in and outside the tech industry are angling to hire people who can keep it in check.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As Elon Musk critics flee from Twitter, Mastodon seems to be the most common replacement. In the last month, the number of monthly active users on Mastodon has rocketed more than threefold, from about 1 million to 3.5 million, while total number of users jumped from about 6.5 million to 8.7...

Enlarge / This ThinkCentre M90n-1 Nano from 2019, passively cooled with a big heatsink, was $145 when the author last looked on eBay. It’s not a Raspberry Pi, and it looks like Batman’s reception desk system, but it can do the work. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) “Raspberry Pi boards are hard to get, probably also next...

The collapse of FTX, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency companies, is still sending shock waves through the crypto world.

The penalty, imposed by Irish data regulators, brings European fines against Facebook’s parent company to more than $900 million since last year.

The crypto exchange, which had been under investigation for violating U.S. sanctions, agreed to pay $360,000 to settle the allegations.

BlockFi was entangled with FTX, and its stability was thrust into uncertainty after FTX collapsed.

In a series of tweets on Monday, Mr. Musk accused Apple of threatening to pull Twitter from its App Store and of trying to censor.

Enlarge / MineDojo’s AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft. (credit: Nvidia) A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia’s generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper Award at the 2022 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference, Nvidia revealed on Monday. To train the MineDojo framework...

Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. The European Parliament website was knocked offline for several hours on Wednesday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started shortly after the governing body voted to declare the Russian government a state sponsor of terrorism. European Parliament...