If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore?
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Bitcoin’s Predicted Sky-High Prices Have Not Panned Out
Bitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months, as gains from President Trump’s pro-crypto policies evaporated.
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Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62
Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.
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In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool
Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government records just minutes after being fired from their contractor jobs. The Department of Justice on Thursday said that Muneeb Akhter and Sohaib Akhter, both...
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(BPRW) ESSENCE Launches ‘WeLoveUs.shop Powered by ESSENCE,’ a Community Commerce Platform Built to Answer One of the Toughest Labor and Economic Markets In Decades
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ESSENCE Communications Inc. proudly launched WeLoveUs.shop powered by ESSENCE, a community commerce platform built to support Black women-led and culturally rooted brands with stronger cash flow, consistent visi…
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(BPRW) National Stress-Free Family Holidays Month
(Black PR Wire) The holiday season is a time for joy, connection and meaningful family traditions, but it can also come with a lot of pressure. Between family gatherings, gift shopping, and trying to make everything perfect, it’s easy to become…
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Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
Security defenders are girding themselves in response to the disclosure of a maximum-severity vulnerability disclosed Wednesday in React Server, an open-source package that’s widely used by websites and in cloud environments. The vulnerability is easy to exploit and allows hackers to execute malicious code on servers that run it. Exploit code is now publicly available....
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Microsoft has lowered sales growth targets for its AI agent products after many salespeople missed their quotas in the fiscal year ending in June, according to a report Wednesday from The Information. The adjustment is reportedly unusual for Microsoft, and it comes after the company missed a number of ambitious sales goals for its AI...
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Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious
A sprawling infrastructure that has been bilking unsuspecting people through fraudulent gambling websites for 14 years is likely a dual operation run by a nation-state-sponsored group that is targeting government and private-industry organizations in the US and Europe, researchers said Wednesday. Researchers have previously tracked smaller pieces of the enormous infrastructure. Last month, security firm...
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Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents
Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers.