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xAI promised workers the money in exchange for tax information to train Grok. Elon Musk owes a bunch of xAI employees $420, according to a report by Bloomberg. The CEO reportedly promised employees earlier this year he would pony up that amount of money if they offered up their personal
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This case is similar to ones filed against Nintendo and Amazon. Gamers have filed a class action lawsuit against Sony, claiming the company received a "substantial windfall" as a result of price hikes following the Trump administration's tariff policy. The lawsuit was filed in California earlier
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Try as you might, you just can't avoid internet slop. AI-generated content has all but taken over, and the lot of it is incomprehensible garbage. But it still manages to fool those who don't know what to look for. These AI-produced blocks of text are often
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Configuring the Hyprland window manager is challenging. * I wanted to see how well AI would perform at creating a .conf file. * There's an important lesson to be learned here. This is the year
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Plus ModuleJail, a radical proposal for minimizing the impact of similar bugs Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, including root-only secrets such as SSH keys. The bug affects multiple LTS kernel lines from 5.
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Every device, user, and microservice generates data. Ingesting this data, extracting meaning and insights, and driving business decisions in real time has the potential to deliver transformational business value.The rise of agentic AI represents an opportunity for users to overcome the challenges inherent in real-time analytics. But while agentic
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Apple is working on a "ChatGPT-like" Siri app with a privacy feature that automatically deletes chats, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The long-awaited revamped Siri experience is purportedly a standalone app with a chat interface, where users interact through text or voice and see a chronological log
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When Windows 11 launched in 2021, we mostly liked its refreshed look—the rounded corners and menus with just a hint of translucency were a nice change from the flat colors and hard corners of the Windows 8/10 era. But its reformulated taskbar and Start menu came with a
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* Watch The Dark Side of Married at First Sighton BBC One * Use NordVPN to watch your usual streams from abroad * Airs 8pm BST in UK – Monday, 18 May The Dark Side of Married at First Sight – a Panorama documentary – investigates 'serious allegations' surrounding the hit reality series MAFS
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* Linus Torvalds warns AI‑generated bug reports are overwhelming the Linux security mailing list with duplication and noise * He urged researchers to add real value by creating patches instead of submitting random automated findings * Similar concerns have already led projects like curl and HackerOne’s Internet Bug Bounty Team to
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Accessing enterprise data is shifting from static reports to dynamic use by autonomous systems. To keep up, organizations must route fragmented data from SaaS, IoT, and legacy sources into secure, scalable endpoints. However, moving to AI-driven exposure requires more than just connecting an LLM to a database, it requires a
