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Meta delays its website-crawling terms after a publisher backlash

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Meta has pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October, Reuters reported. Publishers say the terms let Meta crawl their websites for its products. The delay came a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded the terms be withdrawn. Meta has pushed back new business terms that publishers say would […]

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Madrid is getting its first quantum computer from Telefónica and IQM

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Telefónica and IQM Quantum Computers will install an IQM Spark at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid before the end of 2026. It will be the first quantum computer in the Community of Madrid, the two companies said when they announced the deal on Friday. Universities, hospitals, research centres and startups in the region will get […]

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US lawmakers press Zuckerberg over Meta’s role in Brazil’s runoff

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Senator Bernie Sanders and 12 House Democrats have told Mark Zuckerberg it is “unacceptable” for a platform to favour one candidate. Their letter, sent on Thursday, asks Meta to explain its role in Brazil’s presidential race. The runoff is on Sunday. The vote pits President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. Lula’s […]

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Japan to set up AI hacker team as PHP flaws knock services offline

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Japan plans to create a team of ethical hackers that will use AI to attack the country’s own systems and find vulnerabilities before criminals can exploit them. The announcement comes as banks, rail operators and government agencies take online services offline to patch two critical flaws in PHP, a programming language used across the web. […]

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Greece passes law banning social media for children under 15

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Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from using social media, with the restrictions set to take effect on January 1, 2027. Parliament approved the bill late on October 22, following a debate that lasted more than 16 hours, state broadcaster ERT reported. The governing New Democracy party was the only party to […]

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Leidos lands $95M contract to automate Pentagon logistics with AI

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Leidos has won a $95M, five-year contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to add AI automation and cloud tools to ELMS, the Pentagon system that tracks more than 80 million items of government property worth over $140B. Leidos has supported the system for more than 21 years. Leidos will use AI to speed up the […]

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Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in

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Hackers have made millions of attempts to exploit PHP2Shell since Wednesday’s disclosure, Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on X. Officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Japan say they have not seen one succeed. Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of […]

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Meta to pay $25B in New Mexico case over misleading Facebook users

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A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about privacy and hate speech, Bloomberg reported. A jury found more than 43 million violations of state law in September. The state wanted up to $40B, and Meta plans to appeal. A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta […]

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Dario Amodei says Anthropic held Mythos back for four months for safety

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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has defended the company’s “race to the top” strategy in a long post on X. He was replying to Nathan Calvin, chief strategy officer at the advocacy group Encode AI. Amodei listed nine decisions he said cost Anthropic commercially but made AI safer. He also said the company could have […]

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Protesters heckle Huang in Berlin over Nvidia chips in Russian drones

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Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Security staff led them out, and Nvidia’s chief executive carried on with his talk. The protesters stood on chairs and held up a banner with a Greenpeace logo. It told […]

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