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December 22, 2024
A judge in Delaware has ruled that Elon Musk is not eligible for the significant compensation package given to him by Tesla’s board of directors, which could be valued at over $55 billion. Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick’s decision was made over five years after a lawsuit was filed by shareholders against Tesla CEO Musk
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s corporate parent returned to double-digit revenue growth during last year’s final quarter, signaling the internet powerhouse has regained its footing even as it grapples with regulatory and competitive threats to its digital empire. Alphabet Inc. reported on Tuesday that their revenue has been steadily increasing for the third quarter in
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Italian authorities have informed OpenAI that their ChatGPT chatbot, which uses artificial intelligence, has breached the strict data privacy regulations of the European Union. On Monday, the data protection authority of the country, Garante, informed OpenAI, a company based in San Francisco, of violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Last year, the watchdog
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Elon Musk’s X, a social media platform, has now re-enabled searches for Taylor Swift after previously blocking users from accessing certain results due to the spread of pornographic deepfake images of the singer on the internet. Typing the singer’s name into the website’s search bar on Tuesday yielded a typical list of tweets. The previous
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The Biden administration plans to enforce a new rule that will require creators of significant artificial intelligence systems to reveal their safety test outcomes to the government. The White House AI Council has a scheduled meeting on Monday to assess the advancements made on the executive order signed by President Joe Biden three months ago,
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The U.S. government agency responsible for overseeing foreign aid and development funding in Colombia has announced that its Facebook page was hacked. They are urging the public to disregard any posts or links from the account. On Saturday, the United States Agency for International Development and the U.S. Embassy in Bogota released a statement stating
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The rumors about vote fraud started swirling as the ballots in Taiwan’s closely watched presidential election were tallied on Jan. 13. There were baseless claims that people had fabricated votes and that officials had miscounted and skewed the results. A video that has been widely circulated shows a woman incorrectly recording votes
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A man from Washington state has admitted to making more than 20 false emergency calls, also known as “swatting,” in various locations in the United States and Canada. These calls included false reports of bombings, shootings, and other dangerous situations, resulting in unnecessary emergency responses. The man pleaded guilty to four charges on Thursday. Ashton
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift are circulating online, making the singer the most famous victim of a scourge that tech platforms and anti-abuse groups have struggled to fix. Harmful and offensive fabricated photos of Swift have been spreading widely on the social media platform X this week. The devoted followers
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On Friday, there was a disruption with Microsoft Teams which prevented some users from accessing the platform. This resulted in various problems for a large number of users, according to Microsoft. The problem started at approximately 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and quickly expanded, according to the monitoring tool DownDetector. People reported being unable to
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