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While AI CEOs worry governments might nationalize AI, others are advocating for something similar. Canadian security professional Bruce Schneier and Harvard data scientist Nathan Sanders published this call to action in Canada's most widely-read newspaper (with a readership over 6 million): "Canada Needs Nationalized, Public AI."
While there are Canadian AI companies, they remain for-profit enterprises, their interests not necessarily aligned with our collective good. The only real alternative is to be bo
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The FT’s seventh annual ranking by compound annual revenue growth. Plus: how listed companies overcome obstacles; AI and defence start-ups dominate investment; the US and China in Latin America; and technology shakes up Canadian wealth management Read more ›
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Alex Jones may soon lose Infowars, the digital perch that he's used for decades to traffic in conspiracy theories, to The Onion, the satirical newspaper. But not before he's uncovered something truly dastardly: comedian Tim Heidecker's past (publicly available) work. "The Onion newspaper has been rocked by the discovery that their new creative director, produced […] Read more ›
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WSPR — цифровой протокол, разработанный Джо Тейлором (K1JT) в 2008-2009 годах, с целью исследования распространения радиосигналов от коротковолновых передатчиков малой и сверхмалой мощности. В предыдущей части были рассмотрены механизмы помехозащищенного кодирования данных и формирования сигнала для отправки его в эфир. В этой части статьи рассматриваются механизмы детектирования и декодирования принимаемого из сигнала.Статья может быть интересна радиолюбителям, как знакомым, так и не знакомым с WSPR, а так Read more ›
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The Department of Justice has announced that it's intervening on the behalf of xAI in the company's recent lawsuit against the state of Colorado. xAI first filed the suit in early April in response to a recent Colorado law that requires developers of "high-risk" AI systems (for example, ones used in healthcare, employment or housing) to both disclose and mitigate the risk of algorithmic discrimination in their systems. The law... Read more ›
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On Friday, the U.S. government said $344 million in Tether had been linked to wallets tied to Iran. Read more ›
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In short: The US government’s 9.9% stake in Intel, acquired for $8.9 billion last August by converting CHIPS Act grants and Secure Enclave funds into equity at $20.47/share, is now worth approximately $36 billion after Intel’s stock surged 20%+ on a massive Q1 earnings beat. The $26.5 billion unrealised gain is one of the most […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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This is the OPPO Find X9 Ultra Hasselblad Earth Explorer Kit, a fancy name for the Find X9 Ultra's photography kit. But a fancy name is fitting for such a fancy product. While vivo's X300 Ultra photography kit attaches either a 200mm or a 400mm teleconverter lens to the phone, the Oppo Hasselblad kit has a single option that sits in between - a 300mm lens. But it's a longer... Read more ›
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Google plans to invest up to $40 billion more in Anthropic, starting with $10 billion now and another $30 billion tied to performance milestones. CNBC reports: Anthropic said the agreement expands on a longstanding partnership between the two companies. Earlier this month, Anthropic secured 5 gigawatts worth of computing capacity as part of an announcement with Google and Broadcom that will start to come online next year. Anthropic could decide... Read more ›
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Use neutral oak furniture and soft lighting to make this striking chair the star, and pick out its colors with splashes of green and chrome. Read more ›
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Disney is reimagining its Classic Princess Dolls with plastic-free packaging that uses less material, improves durability, and makes the unboxing experience easier Read more ›
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Эта статья про одну клавишу и рефлекс длиной в двадцать с лишним лет.С 2003-го у меня привычка: палец сам идёт на NumLock → появляется калькулятор. Пользовался каждый день, тысячи нажатий. Потом пришли Win11 и корпоративный запрет *.exe – клавиша опустела, а палец всё равно идёт.В какой-то момент надоело, сел и сделал скрипт. Код писала нейросеть, а я три ночи подряд тыкал её носом в то, что не работает. По дороге... Read more ›
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Делюсь своими размышлениями по книге «Основные законы человеческой глупости» Карло Чиполлы. Что, если глупость — это не «баг», а «фича» мироздания? А иррациональные поступки могут быть природным механизмом сдерживания прогресса. Автор пытается «выявить, распознать и по возможности нейтрализовать одну из наиболее могущественных и тёмных сил, которые всячески препятствуют возрастанию человеческого благополучия и счастья». Читать далее Read more ›
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Summary: SoftBank Corp. plans to convert part of the former Sharp LCD factory in Sakai, Osaka into one of Japan’s largest battery production lines for AI data centres, with production expected within five years (~2031). The move completes a vertical integration stack spanning chips (Arm, Graphcore, Ampere), modular data centre manufacturing (Lordstown), energy generation (SB […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The artificial intelligence era’s biggest legal battle heads to a showdown next week, as Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are scheduled to face off in a federal courtroom in Oakland, Calif., over the future of the company that pioneered the AI boom. The trial in Musk’s lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI and its partner Microsoft starts with jury selection on Monday and is expected to run through mid-May, barring... Read more ›
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Cisive offers fast, compliant background screenings with strong tech integration and ongoing monitoring, but can be costly and face occasional delays. Read more ›
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Honor has officially launched an updated version of its flagship tablet, the MagicPad 3 Pro 12.3, in China. This new iteration introduces significant hardware changes compared to the 13.3-inch model released in October 2025, prioritizing a superior display and an ultra-slim profile over raw screen real estate. Display and Design Overhaul The most notable upgrade is the transition from a 13.3-inch LCD to a 12.3-inch OLED panel. Despite the smaller... Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. is seeking to choke off "all financial lifelines" for the regime. Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla's email subsidiary MZLA Technologies just introduced Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client aimed at organizations that want to run AI on their own infrastructure instead of relying entirely on cloud services. The idea is to give companies full control over their data, models, and workflows while still offering things like chat, research tools, automation, and integration with enterprise systems through the Haystack AI framework. Native apps are planned... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they're a real human, provided they've already stared into one of World's glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be scanned. The announcement follows a pilot... Read more ›
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NIST is narrowing how it handles CVEs in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), saying it will only automatically enrich higher-priority vulnerabilities. "CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be listed in the NVD but will not automatically be enriched by NIST," it said. "This change is driven by a surge in CVE submissions, which increased 263% between 2020 and 2025. We don't expect this trend to let up... Read more ›
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A new Ipsos poll finds Americans are increasingly getting news from online personalities and comedians instead of traditional TV or newspapers. The survey says nearly 70% get news online in a given week, versus 55% from TV and 25% from newspapers, with figures like Joe Rogan, Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity, and late-night hosts ranking prominently depending on political leanings. From the Hollywood Reporter: The poll, which was conducted in March,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding "very concerning" as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the... Read more ›
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NASA has revived support for the European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission. According to the space agency, the current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy no earlier than 2028. Engadget reports: This is a partnership between NASA and the ESA, with the European agency providing the rover, the spacecraft and the lander. The US will provide braking engines for the lander, heater units for... Read more ›
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Some failed startups are reportedly selling old Slack messages, emails, and other internal records to AI companies as training data, creating a new way to cash out after shutting down. Fast Company reports: Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and Jira ticket as training data for "hundreds of thousands of dollars." This isn't... Read more ›
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The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing "rebellion" against attention-hogging devices, citing "a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life." D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science at Princeton University and one of the authors of " Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement," making him a pillar of the growing backlash against the corporate harvesting of human... Read more ›
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Friday Anthropic's CEO met with top U.S. officials and "discussed opportunities for collaboration," according to a White House spokesperson itedd by Politico, "as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology." CNN notes the meeting happens at the same time Anthropic "battles the Trump administration in court for blacklisting its Claude AI model..." The meeting took place as the US government is trying... Read more ›
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Nextcloud joined a project to create a sovereign replacement for Microsoft Office called "Euro-Office". But after that project forked OnlyOffice, OnlyOffice suspended its partnership with Nextcloud. "They removed all references to our brand/attribute as required by our license," argued OnlyOffice CEO Lev Bannov on March 30th. ("The core issue here isn't just about what the AGPL license states, but about the additional provisions we, as the authors, have included... If... Read more ›
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