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Scientists can now talk to raw genetic code using ordinary English, and it doesn’t take a supercomputer to listen. AI platform Hugging Face on Thursday announced Carbon-X, an open-weight, 14.8-billion-parameter language model that lets researchers chat directly with DNA. Built in collaboration with Italy’s University of Naples
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President Donald Trump wants data center companies to make an offer residents may find harder to refuse: a financial benefit from hosting the infrastructure powering the AI boom. In an Oct. 21 Truth Social post, Trump urged data center operators to pay dividends to the communities hosting their facilities, arguing
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Google wants developers to build AI-powered applications on its new laptops, and it’s giving them something more useful than another chatbot: a Linux environment where AI agents can write code, install software, and execute commands. On Oct. 12, Google detailed its Linux Terminal Preview for Googlebook, a Debian-based development
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* Customers are increasingly enlisting AI agents to handle banking jobs for them * Banks are struggling to distinguish between human, legitimate AI and rogue activity * Many are now preparing for worst-case scenarios when AI does go rogue Several major US banks have detected third-party AI agents accessing their customers' bank
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Earlier this week, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion fine for violating consumer protection laws dating back to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. $25 billion is a massive fine, the largest Meta has ever faced, but it still had us folks at WIRED wondering: Would Meta
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* Greece’s parliament has passed a law banning children under 15 from social media, starting January 1, 2027. * Platforms must verify users’ ages, and the government is pointing to its Kids Wallet app as the privacy-friendly way to do it. * Greece follows Australia’s lead, while France’s attempt was
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Medical lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics has confirmed a cyberattack and data breach affecting an as-yet unspecified amount of sensitive patient information stored in its systems, according to a legally required disclosure with U.S. regulators. Quest said in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Sony is full speed ahead towards an all-digital future. Earlier this year the company announced that it would no longer produce physical game releases past 2027, sparking a huge backlash from the gaming community. It’s following that up by completing the final shipment of the last UHD Blu-ray player
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The first thing people ask about the Onyx RCR 80V is how fast it goes. After hundreds of miles around New York, I’m more interested in what this electric bike is like to live with. The acceleration certainly gets your attention. But so do the compact proportions, CarPlay, cruise
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape
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* World of Warcraft: Forever senior game designer Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield confirms the MMO still has "thousands" of undiscovered secrets * Greenfield says, "There’s going to be things to discover that we didn’t surface" * He adds that there is "really well-buried stuff out there that’
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The artificial intelligence and cybersecurity landscape has changed drastically in the past couple of weeks. On one hand we have seen major cybersecurity attacks threatening user data of organisations and people across the globe. On the other hand, we have seen India strengthen its AI regulation framework. These developments follow
