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August Patch Tuesday goes big
Monthly security release hauls out 85 CVEs… and that’s before the advisories
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Unusual Origin Found for Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
A study adds strong evidence to the hypothesis that the deadly rock came from a family of objects that originally formed well beyond the orbit of the planet Jupiter.
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Beware the Toxic and Explosive Blue Backpack This Termite Carries
Scientists studied the unusual chemical reaction used by a species of the insect in an act of self-sacrifice to save nests from invaders.
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How the British Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Peanut Butter
The land of Marmite and jam is finally embracing America’s favorite spread, with dozens of varieties on supermarket shelves.
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California A.I. Bill Is Tweaked
Silicon Valley companies still worry that state lawmakers are jumping the gun on regulating a still-unproven technology.
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Bowling, Selfies and the ‘Dougie’: Biden Woos Influencers at the White House
For its first conference on the creator economy, the Biden administration celebrated social media creators. The president lauded them as a “breakthrough in how we communicate.”
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MIT delivers database containing 700+ risks associated with AI
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have opted to not just discuss all of the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can go wrong, but to create what they described in an abstract released Wednesday as “a living database” of 777 risks extracted from 43 taxonomies. According to an article in MIT Technology Review outlining the initiative, “adopting…
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Google documents filed in antitrust case show efforts to push data collection limits
For almost as long as it has existed, Google has been at the center of controversies around its data strategy, ranging from privacy concerns, data retention with its related cybersecurity implications, and compliance, to the debate about what kind of limits there should be for leveraging data. A series of Google internal documents, which were…
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Tim Walz and JD Vance Agree to Vice-Presidential Debate
The running mates of the presidential candidates will face off on CBS on Oct. 1.
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He Still Thought He Could Win: Inside Biden’s Decision to Drop Out
People close to President Biden say he believes he could have won a second term. But he came to realize that the fight would rip apart the Democratic Party that he had served his whole life.