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Activists Are Using ‘Fortnite’ to Fight Back Against ICE

SteveTheGamer55 is live on YouTube. He’s streaming a session to his 4.6 million subscribers of GTA 5 RP, a Grand Theft Auto 5 mod that allows people to role-play with other players. “Really wanna show you guys some real-life scenarios,” he says, offering a little background on his character, a man headed to his job

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How this founder’s unlikely path to Silicon Valley could become an edge in industrial tech

Thomas Lee Young doesn’t sound like your typical Silicon Valley founder. The 24-year-old CEO of Interface, a San Francisco startup using AI to prevent industrial accidents, is a white guy with a Caribbean accent and a Chinese last name, a combination he finds amusing enough to mention when he’s first introduced to business contacts. Born

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Amazon Issuing $2.5B in Refunds to Eligible Prime Customers to Settle FTC Suit

Amazon is paying out $2.5 billion to eligible Prime customers to settle an FTC lawsuit that alleged it enrolled people without their consent. The post Amazon Issuing $2.5B in Refunds to Eligible Prime Customers to Settle FTC Suit appeared first on TechRepublic. Source link

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Read Epstein’s emails as if you hacked into his Gmail account with Jmail

By now, you’ve likely heard about the Jeffrey Epstein email document dump that was released last week by the House Oversight Committee. Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, everyone has been talking about the emails and some of the more interesting revelations. OpenAI even lost a member of its board, Larry Summers, after he resigned

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OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist

OpenAI employees in San Francisco were told to stay inside the office on Friday afternoon after the company purportedly received a threat from an individual who was previously associated with the Stop AI activist group. “Our information indicates that [name] from StopAI has expressed interest in causing physical harm to OpenAI employees,” a member of

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Bret Taylor’s Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years

Sierra, a 21-month-old, San Francisco-based startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, announced on Friday that it reached $100 million in annual revenue run rate (ARR). The company’s rapid growth suggests that businesses across industries are embracing AI agents. The startup’s growth rate surprised even its seasoned co-founders, former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor

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The Dark Side of LLMs: Rising Energy and Water Demands Spark Sustainability Fears

The training of AI models and AI inferencing consumes vast amounts of water. How can energy and water usage be reduced? The post The Dark Side of LLMs: Rising Energy and Water Demands Spark Sustainability Fears appeared first on TechRepublic. Source link

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One of the best ‘Assassin’s Creed’ games might get a remake very soon

Ubisoft is potentially ready to sail the high seas again. The French gaming giant published its latest financial earnings this week, and while there’s lots of interesting business-y stuff going on in there, one minor detail stands out: the presence of an unannounced title that is set to launch by March 31, 2026 at the

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MediaWorld Accidentally Sold iPads for €15 and Asked for Them Back: “It Was a Clear Mistake”

On November 8, an offer for loyalty card holders appeared on the website of MediaWorld, a European electronics retailer. The deal: an iPad Air for 15 euros (about $17) instead of the usual €879 (about $1,012). No catch, no strings attached. The proximity to Black Friday only made the offer more plausible. And so several

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CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider’ who passed information to hackers

Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has confirmed firing a “suspicious insider” last month who allegedly fed information about the company to a notorious hacking group. A hacking collective known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published screenshots late Thursday and Friday morning in a public Telegram channel that allegedly showed insider access to CrowdStrike systems. The screenshots, which TechCrunch

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