The consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has agreed to pay $377.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit accusing it of false billing to the U.S.… Read More »Booz Allen pays $377.5 million to settle government billing case
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The White House has struck a deal with major AI developers – including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI – requiring them to take action… Read More »AI giants vow to allow remote probes of their algorithms, under a new White House pact
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Can the online encyclopedia help teach AI chatbots to get their facts right – without destroying themselves in the process?
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Yesterday, the US Federal Reserve officially launched FedNow, a new system that has been rolled out to 35 early adopting banks and credit unions for… Read More »Banks that serve as guinea pigs for the Federal Reserve’s instant payment system
Kering, the French luxury goods company that owns brands like Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent, surprised the fashion industry this week when it… Read More »Luxury goods maker Kering under pressure after management shake-up
Anyone tempted by AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard – wow, they can write essays and recipes! — eventually encounters what are known as hallucinations,… Read More »How to send AI chatbots to make them more useful
Last month, one Court in Kenya has issued a historic ruling against Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram. The US tech giant was, the court… Read More »A leaked memo shows TikTok knows it has a labor problem
A Hong Kong judge on Friday said he would rule next week on a government request to ban a popular pro-democracy song from the internet,… Read More »“Glory to Hong Kong” injunction ruling will be made next week
Christian radio stations are more popular than you might think. While these religious programs aren’t necessarily for everyone, they’re hugely popular around the world. The… Read More »Canada’s Top 11 Christian Radio Stations For Superpreaching – Radio Fidelity
Enlarge / Bottles of MMS, the bleaching product that Genesis II Church of Health and Healing was ordered to stop selling. A Florida father and… Read More »The “Church of Bleach” family, guilty on all counts, plans to appeal
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday it was investigating why passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight had been forced to swelter for hours… Read More »US is investigating why Delta passengers were kept on the plane in extreme heat
Kevin Mitnick, who at the dawn of widespread Internet use in the mid-1990s became the nation’s archetypal computer hacker—obsessive but smart, shy but mischievous, and… Read More »Kevin Mitnick, hacker who escaped authorities, is dead at age 59
