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Google keeps its advertising business after five years in court: two rulings that it broke the law, not one piece sold

The courts twice found an illegal monopoly, then twice refused to break it up. Google adjusts a few contract terms...

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A nineties app became number one in America because it refused to rename a lake: Google and Apple changed the name the same week

MapQuest added no new features. It just said no - and in six days collected over half a million downloads...

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OpenAI says its new model breaks into other people's systems on its own: it found two unknown holes, and the company ran the check itself

The model scored top marks on the hacking benchmark, then found two previously unknown vulnerabilities. Who checks the check when...

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Two American states are pulling out the cameras that read licence plates: an officer charged on a hundred counts of tracking people

Not an outside hacker, but a man with legal access. Three cities reported the cameras came back after the contract...

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Apple Says It Has Shocking Evidence Against a Former Engineer: It All Came Out of One Old Laptop

More than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. One of them handed back his old MacBook - and...

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Amazon Ran a Made-Up Bidder in Its Own Auctions: 500,000 Businesses Paid for the Ads, Only Amazon Knew About the Hidden Markup

A second-price auction in which the winner pays their full bid in 80 percent of cases. The federal commission and...

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Musk Is Building a Turbine Blade Foundry: Solar Arrives When It Arrives, the Gas Turbine Fires Up Tonight

Only four companies in the world know how to cast turbine blades, and all of them are sold out until...

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Five Chinese Firms Hold 86 Percent of Humanoid Robots: The US Imposed Tariffs, and the Goods Simply Look for Another Door

You cannot sanction your way around the cost curve, says a Silicon Valley investor. When one market closes, the manufacturer...

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Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic for Piracy: the First Time It Cost 1.5 Billion, Now the Sheet Music Is Next

A court has already ruled that training on someone else's work is legal - what is illegal is how the...

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Hollywood Is Shooting Two-Minute Series for the Vertical Screen: a 1.5 Billion Dollar Market and a Union Deal That Already Exists

An old soap opera cut into pieces and charged for by the piece. When the big screen has no roles,...

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Anthropic's automated researcher costs 4 dollars an hour, the human 150: the comparison was written by the company itself

A system that fixes a model's own alignment outperformed experienced researchers by six hours. The price comparison with a human...

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Brave is offering alias addresses so sites cannot recognise you: privacy does not disappear, it just moves to one company

Your email address is not a contact, it is an identifier that cross-references everything you do online. The new feature...

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