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One Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense
Artificial intelligence systems can process vast amounts of data in seconds, but they can’t make sense of the world or explain their decisions. David Ferrucci wants to change that.
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California Approves Bill to Punish Doctors Who Spread False Information
Weighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.
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FTC sues data broker that tracks locations of 125M phones per month
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued a data broker for allegedly selling location data culled from hundreds of millions of phones that can be used to track the movements of people visiting abortion clinics, domestic abuse shelters, places of worship, and other sensitive places. In a complaint, the agency said...
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The Crypto World Can’t Wait for Ethereum’s ‘Merge’
A long-awaited upgrade to Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform, may make the technology more environmentally sustainable. But it comes with risks.
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What Is ‘the Merge’?
Here’s what to know about a major software upgrade to Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform.
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Why Peloton Is Selling on Amazon
The dream was to sell directly to customers. Now Peloton is on Amazon, Casper is in a furniture shop, and it’s awkward.
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The number of companies caught up in the Twilio hack keeps growing
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The fallout from this month’s breach of security provider Twilio keeps coming. Three new companies—authentication service Authy, password manager LastPass, and food delivery service DoorDash—said in recent days that the Twilio compromise led to them being hacked. The three companies join authentication service Okta and secure messenger provider Signal in the...
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Google Looks to Vaccination to Combat Misinformation In Searches
British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of it.
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Phishers who hit Twilio and Cloudflare stole 10k credentials from 136 others
Enlarge / This is definitely not a Razer mouse—but you get the idea. (credit: calvio via Getty Images) Two weeks ago, Twilio and Cloudflare detailed a phishing attack so methodical and well-orchestrated that it tricked employees from both companies into revealing their account credentials. In the case of Twilio, the attack overrode its 2FA protection...