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The Fairfax County Circuit Court denied a non-party request from Lauren Burke for an uncertified, AI-generated transcript of a child custody trial, citing the document was "replete with errors, omissions, and other inacc…
Governments are reframing AI safety rules as coercive tools against tech firms rather than public protection measures, according to a June 4, 2026 article by Michael Gregory in The Conversation. President Donald Trump's …
Professor Christian B. Miller of Wake Forest University argued in an essay published by The Conversation that artificial intelligence is training people to expect instant answers and eroding the practice of patience. Mil…
OpenAI launched the Rosalind Biodefense program and expanded trusted access to GPT-Rosalind, its life-sciences model, to support biodefense and pandemic preparedness for vetted developers and select U.S. government and a…
A developer's broken backup of the rsync file-transfer tool sparked a heated debate in the open-source community after the project's maintainer posted a profanity-laced plea not to "vibe f$%& up this software." The incid…
The NSA’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) security guidance and the OWASP MCP Top 10 risk framework can be mapped together to create a testable checklist for vetting MCP servers before deployment. Researchers demonstrated t…
The European Commission proposed a tech sovereignty package Wednesday that restricts US cloud providers from processing sensitive government data and launches Chips Act 2.0 to build advanced semiconductor capacity in Eur…
Only 4% of Australians trust AI companies with their private information, according to a new survey by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The finding places Australia among the most skeptical nations …
A Hacker News user warned that humans are increasingly outsourcing critical thinking to AI models, raising the risk that people may become as intellectually passive as the machines they rely on. The user, an economist, a…
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to allow San Diego County officials to conduct a full public health inspection within two weeks at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a facility housing immigran…
Federal authorities arrested Jamshid Ghomi, a 63-year-old Newport Coast businessman with dual U.S. and Iranian citizenship, on Wednesday for allegedly smuggling over 250 metric tons of computer networking equipment into …
Apple faces a proposed $250 million settlement in a consumer class action over delayed AI upgrades to Siri, covering U.S. purchasers of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 between June 2024 and March 2025. Eligible claimants cou…
Attackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts by tricking the bot into linking victim accounts to attacker-controlled emails and using chatbot-generated verification codes to reset pa…
Anthropic, SpaceX-xAI, and OpenAI are racing toward public listings this year, with Anthropic filing a confidential S-1 and SpaceX targeting a valuation between $1.25 trillion and $1.75 trillion after merging with xAI. T…
NITI Aayog Principal Economic Advisor Anna Roy urged the development of AI solutions to address real-world challenges in agriculture, healthcare, and education, stating that enterprises solving those problems "will get a…
An unidentified San Diego sheriff’s deputy violated department policy by failing to get out of his vehicle or activate his body-worn camera when responding to a report of a woman needing help, an independent investigatio…
AI scraping did not break the web; the dotcom-era platforms did by hollowing out the open web's social norms of reciprocity and trust over decades, according to an analysis from an open web perspective. The early web was…
Uber Technologies Inc. cut 23% of jobs in its People and Places division, which includes human resources and recruitment, as newly promoted president Jill Hazelbaker restructures the team. The cuts affect less than 1% of…
The Trump administration is expected to issue the world’s first commercial permits to mine in international waters, allowing companies to extract valuable minerals from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. T…
Pope Francis released an encyclical on artificial intelligence titled *Magnifica Humanitas*, warning that the technology risks becoming a tool of exclusion and exploitation if driven solely by profit and efficiency. The …