A federal judge has ordered spyware maker NSO to stop using its Pegasus app to target or infect users of WhatsApp. The ruling, issued Friday by Phyllis J. Hamilton of of the US District Court of the District of Northern California, grants a permanent injunction sought by WhatsApp owner Meta in a case it brought...
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Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco
Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, said he no longer believed that National Guard troops were needed in the city.
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Instagram Unveils Teen Safety Features for A.I. Chatbots
Instagram is introducing parental controls and limits to conversations on topics like self-harm as concerns grow over how A.I. chatbots affect mental health.
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Renting a San Francisco Apartment in the A.I. Boom? Good Luck.
The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco’s residential rents up by the most in the nation, as A.I. companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees.
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China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game
Beijing’s latest effort to weaponize global supply chains is modeled on the American technology controls that it has long criticized.
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The Small Company in Europe Caught in the Big Trade War Between the U.S. and China
Nexperia, a computer chip maker based in the Netherlands, was taken over by the Dutch government after pressure from officials in Washington.
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Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
Hacking groups—at least one of which works on behalf of the North Korean government—have found a new and inexpensive way to distribute malware from “bulletproof” hosts: stashing them on public cryptocurrency blockchains. In a Thursday post, members of the Google Threat Intelligence Group said the technique provides the hackers with their own “bulletproof” host, a...
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Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.
On Tuesday of last week, Ars Technica hosted a live conversation with Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast and one of tech’s most vocal AI critics, to discuss whether the generative AI industry is experiencing a bubble and when it might burst. My Internet connection had other plans, though, dropping out multiple times...
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(BPRW) ESSENCE Black Women in Business Presented by L’Oréal Groupe Proudly Honors the Achievements of Patti LaBelle, Ursula Burns, Monica Turner, Keia Clarke, Valeisha Butterfield, and Cheryl Porter
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– For more than five decades, ESSENCE has celebrated Black women as the architects of culture, power, and progress. This October, ESSENCE Black Women in Business continues that legacy with…
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Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents
The Facebook page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta.