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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cast the U.S. announcement that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza would advance to its second phase as largely symbolic, raising questions about how its more ...
Mel Kiper Jr. stacks the top 25 players for the NFL draft, starting with Fernando Mendoza....
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Across tech, pressure on workers to perform comes as leaders wait for AI bets to pay off. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Big Tech firms like Amazon and Meta are doubling down on worker oversight and p...
It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articl...
Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia's vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia F...
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Elon Musk's X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It's...
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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas held talks in Berlin with German defence minister Boris Pistorius as challenges to the future of European and global security continue to mount....
Taiwan has begun co-producing 155mm (6.1-inch) artillery shells with the US, as the island moves to strengthen wartime ammunition resilience amid Beijing’s escalating military pressure and concern ove...
Jafar Panahi, a renowned Iranian film-maker, is urging the international community to help Iranian people because he says the Islamic Republic has lost its legitimacy and will stop at nothing to survi...
Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth....
Under UAPA, India's controversial anti-terror law, a suspect can spend years in jail without trial if the accusations against them seem true at first glance. Meanwhile, courts are expanding the defini...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Markus Schreiber/File/AP Dario Amodei dropped a 19,000-plus-word essay on the future of AI. The outspoken Anthropic CEO said AI "is a serious civilizational challenge.&#...
Marvel's Jeremy Renner and Hailey Steinfeld-starring Disney+ TV series Hawkeye sounds like it won't get a second season, despite the idea having been recently explored. Speaking to The Direct , Hawkey...
A TV spot for The Odyssey aired during the New England Patriots vs Denver Broncos AFC Championship game over the weekend, and the short trailer revealed Travis Scott’s speaking role and a new look at ...
Jessamine Black (left) has been using eBay for about two years. Jessamine Black; Sydney Frost Sydney Frost and Jessamine Black use eBay to find unique secondhand fashion items. The online resale marke...
Article URL: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745120 Points: 13 # Comments: 8...