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Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99
As the computer age dawned, he saw how the new technology could be harnessed to mathematics to solve problems in everything from designing weapons to predicting the weather.
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Grok Chatbot’s ‘White Genocide’ Responses Blamed on xAI Employee
Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to unrelated questions.
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The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs
For a short period of time on Friday, Darth Vader could drop F-bombs in the video game Fortnite as part of a voice AI implementation gone wrong, reports GameSpot. Epic Games rapidly deployed a hotfix after players encountered the Sith Lord responding to their comments with profanity and strong language. In Fortnite, the AI-voiced Vader...
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(BPRW) Hampton University and Hinds Community College at Utica join the Thurgood Marshall College Fund as member schools
(Black PR Wire) The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) has added Hampton University (Hampton) in Virginia and Hinds Community College at Utica (Hinds CC) in Mississippi to its member schools, now totaling 57 instituti…
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S.E.C. Investigating Whether Coinbase Misstated Its User Numbers
The inquiry continued even after the commission dropped a lawsuit accusing Coinbase of illegally marketing digital currencies to the public.
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Does Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.
The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize a threat.
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Terrorists Continue to Pay for Check Marks on X, Report Says
Elon Musk’s social media company has continued to accept payments for subscriptions from entities barred from doing business in the U.S., a nonprofit found.
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Colorado Air Traffic Controllers Lost Contact With Some Airplanes Monday
Controllers switched frequencies and planes were “safely separated,” officials said. The 90-second outage on Monday followed communications problems at Newark’s airport.
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What the Changes in Apple’s App Store Mean for iPhone Users
A federal judge created a path for app makers like Spotify and Patreon to avoid paying Apple hefty commissions. Is this a win for consumers? It’s complicated.