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Asking Eric: My daughter is dating an aspiring bartender. I don’t approve.
A parent wonders if it’s elitist to want their daughter to date someone with “some kind of viable career path.”
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Miss Manners: People keep calling me by my last name
People just call this letter writer by their last name, that is also a very common first name.
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Blue screen of death strikes crowd of CrowdStrike servers
CrowdStrike has admitted to pushing out a bad software update, causing many Windows machines running the affected software to crash. The problem, apparently affecting its Falcon platform, brought down servers at airlines, locked up computers at banks, and hurt healthcare services. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single…
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Live Updates: Global Tech Outage Grounds Flights and Hits Businesses
Airlines, banks and broadcasters were among the companies around the world reporting disruptions, citing technical issues.
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Data for A.I. Training Is Disappearing Fast, Study Shows
New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.
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How Getty and Shutterstock Are Building AI Image Generators
Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content.
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With Netflix, ‘Your Honor’ Becomes a Surprising Summer TV Hit
Once again, a show with little following has become hugely popular once it starts streaming on Netflix.
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What Presidential Election? So Far, the Stock Market Doesn’t Care.
Traders appear to be focused on possible Fed rate cuts and corporate earnings, and are remarkably indifferent to political fortunes, our columnist says.
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Elections 2024 live updates: Trump basks in nomination; Biden faces pressure to bow out
Live updates from the 2024 election campaign trail, with the latest news on Biden and Trump.
