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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Bots Matter: A new alert warns that Amazon Mechanical Turk will cease to exist a month from now. Amazon has not provided a specific reason for the change, but Mechanical Turk has been steadily
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In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures, Meta’s settlement agreement with attorneys general from 29 states includes an interesting provision: the states have agreed not to sue Meta under existing child safety laws over its retention and use of children’s data.
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patpitchaya/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW August 27, 2026 04:04 PM ET Job replacement due to AI is less of a threat than falling behind due to lack of adoption, Senior Advisor for Technology and Strategy Matheus Passos said. * Commerce * Workforce The real risk of using
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More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fix weaknesses in their own software. The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act makes much of that mandatory from 11 September. More than
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In Brief 12:52 PM PDT · August 27, 2026 The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and
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da-kuk/Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 27, 2026 03:52 PM ET The federal government plans to announce new projects receiving modernization dollars at the end of next month, ahead of a possible expiration for the fund. * TMF * Congress * Leadership The Technology Modernization Fund will have
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Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you’ve purchased. The new “Expert Intelligence” feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics,
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A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Many methods for designing novel proteins, including examples that could bind to a disease-causing molecule in our cells, involve a two-step
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I hadn’t been paying a ton of attention to the robot beat lately, but an adorable waddling duck robot caught my eye this morning and changed all that. The Microduck, a collab between hot AI tool hub Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, can be yours for $399. I can’
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The takeaway: Nvidia this week reported blockbuster results for the quarter ending in July 2026 and issued ambitious revenue guidance that topped Wall Street consensus estimates. The company's stock jumped more than
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* OpenAI has released technical details on how the Hugging Face attack unfolded * Agents used part of the testing environment to create a message board where they could collaborate and share answers * This message board altered the reasoning of some agents, making them more likely to take risks such as hacking
