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US charges Chinese hackers, government officials in broad cybercrime campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve Chinese nationals, including mercenary hackers, law enforcement officers and employees of a private hacking company, have been charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. A set of criminal cases filed in New York and Washington add new detail

Google leans further into AI-generated overviews for its search engine

Google is updating its ubiquitous search engine with the next generation of its artificial intelligence technology as part of an effort to provide instant expertise amid intensifying competition from smaller competitors. The company announced Wednesday that it will feed its Gemini 2.0 AI model into its search engine so it can field more complex questions

Judge denies Elon Musk’s request to block OpenAI for-profit conversion but welcomes trial

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has denied Elon Musk’s request for a court order blocking OpenAI from converting itself to a for-profit company but said she could expedite a trial to consider Musk’s claims against the ChatGPT maker and its CEO. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled late Tuesday that “Musk has

AI pioneers who channeled ‘hedonistic’ machines win computer science’s top prize

Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence and one that was recognized Wednesday with the top computer science award. Two pioneers in the field of reinforcement learning, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, are the winners of this year’s

Hegseth orders suspension of Pentagon’s offensive cyberoperations against Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has paused offensive cyberoperations against Russia by U.S. Cyber Command, rolling back some efforts to contend with a key adversary even as national security experts call for the U.S. to expand those capabilities. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive operations, on Monday confirmed

Giant chipmaker TSMC to spend $100B to expand chip manufacturing in US, Trump announces

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to invest $100 billion in the United States, President Donald Trump said Monday, on top of $65 billion in investments the company had previously announced. TSMC, the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer, produces chips for companies including Apple, Intel and Nvidia. The company had already begun

Melania Trump says it’s ‘heartbreaking’ to watch teens grapple with the fallout from revenge porn

Melania Trump on Monday lobbied on Capitol Hill for a bill that would make it a federal crime to post intimate imagery online, whether real or fake, and said it was “heartbreaking” to see what teenagers and especially girls go through after they are victimized by people who spread such content. It was her first

CIA to offer tips on ‘creative problem solving’ at SXSW festival

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is headed to the South By Southwest festival to share tips on finding innovative solutions to complex challenges. America’s preeminent spy agency will deliver a presentation Sunday on creative problem solving at the annual SXSW music festival and tech conference held in Austin, Texas, the CIA announced Monday. The typically

UK data protection watchdog investigating how TikTok uses children’s personal data

LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s data protection watchdog said Monday that it’s investigating how TikTok uses the personal information of teenagers to deliver content recommendations to them when they use the social media platform. The Information Commissioner’s Office said that there are growing concerns around how social media platforms were using data generated by children’s

How to watch — and stream — the 2025 Oscars show and red carpet

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s almost time to see how the biggest nailbiter Oscar season of recent years concludes. Stars will converge at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday for the 97th annual Academy Awards, which will undoubtedly see some first-time Oscar winners in top categories. It’s the second year the Oscars are starting

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US charges Chinese hackers, government officials in broad cybercrime campaign

Google leans further into AI-generated overviews for its search engine

Judge denies Elon Musk’s request to block OpenAI for-profit conversion but welcomes trial

AI pioneers who channeled ‘hedonistic’ machines win computer science’s top prize

Hegseth orders suspension of Pentagon’s offensive cyberoperations against Russia

Giant chipmaker TSMC to spend $100B to expand chip manufacturing in US, Trump announces

Melania Trump says it’s ‘heartbreaking’ to watch teens grapple with the fallout from revenge porn

CIA to offer tips on ‘creative problem solving’ at SXSW festival

UK data protection watchdog investigating how TikTok uses children’s personal data

How to watch — and stream — the 2025 Oscars show and red carpet