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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed bill SB 1047, which aims to prevent bad actors from using AI to cause "critical harm" to humans. The California state assembly passed the legislation by a margin of 41-9 on August 28, but several organizations including the Chamber of Commerce had urged Newsom to veto the bill. In his veto message on Sept. 29, Newsom said the bill is "well-intentioned" but "does not take into account whether an Al system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decisio
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Mark Cuban called Elon Musk a "faithful soldier" to Donald Trump and warned that his loyalty to the former president won't always be rewarded. Read more ›
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Trump used much of his speech in Prairie du Chien, WI, to take shots at Harris, including at one point saying she was born "mentally impaired." Read more ›
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A relatively small but significant bloc of Trump's backers are also voting for Democratic Senate candidates. It could help them hold their majority. Read more ›
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The Australian actor, 44, tied the knot with her partner of over two years on the Italian island of Sardinia, sources told People. Read more ›
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Israeli fighter jets appeared to use "bunker buster" bombs in the strikes that killed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Friday. Read more ›
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Oregon businesses have spent millions to oppose a ballot measure that would establish a corporate tax to be redistributed as universal basic income. Read more ›
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The trend comes as China faces a prolonged economic slump following its exit from pandemic lockdowns. Read more ›
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Private Internet Access may be an affordable VPN, but it's currently offering a huge promotion on its 2-year subscription. It would be a shame to miss out. Read more ›
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Apple is planning to debut a new operating system called homeOS with its long-rumored smart displays, the first of which is expected to arrive as soon as 2025, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Reports of a HomePod-like device with a display have been swirling for over a year, and Gurman said just this summer that Apple is working on a tabletop smart display equipped with a robotic arm that can... Read more ›
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A tiny PCB installed on a refilled HP ink cartridge allows users to continue using it despite HP's strict DRM settings. Read more ›
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In What We're Listening To, Engadget writers and editors discuss some of the recent music releases we've had on repeat. This installment has everything from jazz standards to The Jesus Lizard. Lady Gaga - Harlequin I wasn’t even a minute into Harlequin before I had the realization, Oh, I am going to become so annoying in my love for this. Unfortunately for everyone in my life (and doubly so because... Read more ›
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"Saturday Night Live" began its 50th season lampooning the 2024 election. Read more ›
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Brigid Schulte, author of "Over Work" and director of the Better Life Lab, spoke to BI about the CEO mindset that is driving RTO policies. Read more ›
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The five flights would be uncrewed, but if the tests succeed, crewed missions are expected in 2028. Read more ›
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Hideo Kojima says he knows Death Stranding 2's release date, but "unforeseen circumstances" prevent him from sharing that date further. Read more Read more ›
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A California-based Gen Xer has been struggling to find a job. He says he's been ghosted by employers despite having years of work experience. Read more ›
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Move over, restaurant menus. California Gov. Gavin Newsom just used a QR code as an official memo to announce he signed a bill into law. Read more ›
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The couple wed at a waterside venue in Des Allemands, Louisiana, on Thursday, September 26, according to multiple reports. Read more ›
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Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov stated that the messaging app will now start handing over the IP addresses and phone numbers of users if prompted by legal requests. Bloomberg, which first reported the policy change, notes that Telegram has historically been "notoriously non-responsive to takedown requests" and "often ignored requests for information about suspected criminals." Accompanying this development is the implementation of some moderation. Telegram has started using AI, as well... Read more ›
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At some point, we’ve all encountered someone who just doesn’t get boundaries. They get too deep into our personal space, oblivious — or all too aware — of our discomfort. This problem is magnified online where there’s instant access to someone’s broader digital footprint, which can be a vector for abuse. It’s why most platforms have some sort of block feature, enabling people to limit some user’s access to their... Read more ›
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2426, a new law that requires digital marketplaces to make clearer to customers when they are only purchasing a license to access media. The law will not apply to cases of permanent offline downloads, only to the all-too-common situation of buying digital copies of video games, music, movies, TV shows or ebooks from an online storefront. The Verge spotted the development, which could... Read more ›
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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Meta with a $101.5 million (€91 million) fine after wrapping up an investigation into a security breach in 2019, wherein the company mistakenly stored users' passwords in plain text. Meta's original announcement only talked about how it found some user passwords stored in plain text on its servers in January that year. But a month later, it updated its announcement to reveal... Read more ›
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Jan-Bart van Beek, Guerilla Games' art and animation director, has officially announced that a remastered version of Horizon Zero Dawn is arriving on October 31. The game will feature over 10 hours of re-recorded audio, mocap, as well as improved character models, animation, lighting and textures that he said will bring it "to the same visual fidelity" as Horizon Forbidden West. That means it has been upgraded for the PlayStation... Read more ›
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The 2020 PlayStation hit Ghost of Tsushima is getting a sequel featuring a new protagonist, era and landscape. Ghost of Yōtei is heading to PlayStation 5 in 2025. Ghost of Yōtei stars a new Ghost, Atsu, who's journeying through the lands at the base of Mount Yōtei in Ezo — modern-day Hokkaido — in 1603. This means the sequel is set 300 years after the events of Tsushima, which focused... Read more ›
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It’s certainly taken a while, but Pokémon Sleep now offers smartwatch support for sleep tracking. This is fantastic news because, look, smartphones are good at many things, but tracking sleep from underneath a pillow isn’t really one of them. Using a smartwatch should make for more accurate tracking which, in turn, will make Snorlax and his friends happy. The app works with all of the major smartwatch models, including the... Read more ›
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Employees at an Apple Store in Oklahoma City's Penn Square Mall have voted to ratify their first collectively-bargained contract. The store's workers are part of the Communications Workers of America, operating as Apple Retail Union-CWA Local 6016. The employees' three-year agreement with Apple includes the following, according to a press release from CWA: "Wage increases of up to 11.5% over the next three years." "Worker involvement in scheduling and guaranteed... Read more ›
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Mira Murati has departed OpenAI, where she had been the chief technology officer since 2018. In a note shared with the company and then posted publicly on X, Murati said that she is exiting "because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration." Murati gained additional visibility as a face for the AI company when she briefly assumed CEO duties in November 2023 when the... Read more ›
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The team behind the upcoming Minecraft movie shared a new clip during Minecraft Live that expands on the brief crafting moment we saw in the polarizing first teaser. The scene comes in the middle of a discussion between Mojang creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson and A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess, at 4:51. The segment also gives us our first look at the movie’s interpretation of a Minecraft bee, which... Read more ›
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