State axes data center tax break after forecasts were off by a billion dollars
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Special plan delivers exemptions to one kind of corporation
Tech and AI
‘In-home surveillance devices’: Your Chinese-made TV could be spying on you
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‘Using automatic content recognition technology to capture what consumers watch, connect that data to persistent household and device identifiers, and distribute that information through a broader ad-tech and data-broker ecosystem’
New tech is transforming how doctors screen for cancer
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Accurate diagnoses coming from multimodal large language model software
What nobody will tell you about the massive lithium find buried deep in Appalachia
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‘As a practical matter, it will be years before any of this is produced, if it ever is produced’
WATCH: Silicon Valley insider explains how Indian labor came to dominate tech hiring
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Eventually, workplaces shifted so dramatically American employees became a small minority inside their own companies
Repealed! Trump axing 3 of Biden’s gun regulations
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Written ‘without any real understanding of how firearms businesses operate’
Kill the kill switch: Chip Roy pushes amendment to kill Biden car-surveillance mandate
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Warns scheme poses ‘a direct threat to our Fourth Amendment rights’
WATCH: Terminally ill former Republican senator has parting warning about dangers of artificial intelligence
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‘Do you think AI is going to bring heaven or is AI going to bring hell? And the right answer is yes!’
Another: 29-year-old NASA engineer who was reported missing found dead in burned-out Tesla
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Part of disturbing pattern of deaths involving America’s top nuclear and aerospace scientists
What AI doesn’t know, and why it matters
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‘Engineering feat’ still only latest ‘implement invented and used by homo sapiens to make life better for homo sapiens’
WATCH: Humanoid robot chases wild boars causing mischief in city
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Technology has promise for municipalities dealing with unwanted invasions
Big win for independent news sites: FTC cracks down on ad agency collusion for longtime discrimination
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Left-leaning corporations, including NewsGuard, agree to change practices to resolve FTC complaint
‘A gift from the Creator’ or ‘hatched from hell’? Now you can talk to AI Jesus for just 2 bucks a minute!
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‘There is no substantial difference between this and the golden calf made at the base of Mount Sinai’
Can ‘traditional values’ shield Russia from ChatGPT?
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Nation says AI represents fundamental different understanding ‘of good and evil’
‘Milestone for humankind’: NASA crowns human achievement with new record amongst the stars
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‘We will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything that we hold dear, but we most importantly choose this moment to challenge this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long-lived’
‘Information will inevitably be abused’: Government’s efforts to monitor social media users skyrocket
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Requests using Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act increase under both parties
WATCH: NASA’s Artemis II crew launches to the moon
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Mission taking off from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral
‘We have to be on guard’: Pelosi says Trump and Republicans may hack into voting machines to rig midterm elections
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Former House speaker suddenly concerned about GOP ‘creeping into the technology’
Feds allege multi-state plot to smuggle advanced AI tech to China
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3 people facing federal counts for scheme that involved $100 million and spanned 3 states
‘Historic victory’: Jury fines Meta $375 million for misleading users about predator dangers to kids
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‘Executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees, and lied to the public about what they knew’
WATCH: Pro-family tech coalition launches to protect kids from artificial intelligence threats
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‘No parent should have to fight a machine for the mind of their child’
Utilities efforts would undermine President Trump’s ratepayer protection pledge
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‘Captive customers’ being threatened with the costs of building generation for data centers
