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Silicon Valley Layoffs Mean D.C. Is Hotter Tech Hiring Market
Layoffs by technology giants and startups have created a windfall for nontechnology companies in Washington, D.C., and New York City starved for software engineers...
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AI Tech Enables Industrial-Scale Intellectual-Property Theft, Say Critics
Are ChatGPT, Stability AI, and GitHub Copilot the next big breakthroughs, huge legal and regulatory liabilities, or something else entirely?
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AI Bot ChatGPT Needs Some Help With Math Assignments
Large language models supply grammatically correct answers but struggle with calculations.
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Japan, Netherlands Agree to Limit Exports of Chip-Making Equipment to China
Deal with U.S. comes as President Biden seeks to slow China's military development.
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LG, Whirlpool Target Customers Disconnected from 'Smart' Appliances
Appliance manufacturers LG Electronics and Whirlpool are trying to entice customers whose "smart" appliances are not connected to the Internet to embrace the technology...
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Is It Human or AI? Tools Help Spot the Bots
Researchers are developing tools that can identify content created by bots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which generates text that can be difficult to distinguish from...
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Global IT Spending Decreased in 2022
The devices segment of Gartner's spending forecast is projected to fall 5.1% this year to roughly $685 billion, after dropping more than 10% in 2022.
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Ukraine Has Digitized Its Fighting Forces on a Shoestring
Ukraine has digitally networked its fighting forces, intelligence, and weapons on the cheap through satellite communications and custom software.
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Meta CEO Zuckerberg Testifies in FTC Case to Block Virtual-Reality Deal
Federal Trade Commission seeks to prevent social-media company from acquiring Within Unlimited.
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OECD Countries Limit Government Access to Personal Data
Officials from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 38 member-states finalized a framework to limit governments' access to citizens' personal...
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Blockchain Fails to Gain Traction in the Enterprise
Maersk and IBM last month shut down their global platform that was supposed to bring blockchain to the shipping industry. Other big bets are moving slowly.
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Twitter Disbands Trust and Safety Council
The action comes the same day Twitter moved to boost its revenue not linked to digital advertising by reintroducing a paid-for subscription service that would show...
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Canada Pushes Canadian Content, Irking Big Tech
Proposed legislation in Canada that would require digital platforms to promote Canadian content over foreign-made content is facing pushback from leading tech firms...
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Amazon's Quest for the 'Holy Grail' of Robotics
Automating some warehouse functions could let the giant do more with its existing workforce—or the retailer may not require all the humans it employs today.
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China Clamps Down on Internet as It Seeks to Stamp Out Covid Protests
Online regulators tell big tech companies to expand censorship of information on demonstrations and take steps to curb the virtual private networks used to bypass...
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Can You Tell Whether This Headline Was Written by a Robot?
Not this time, but artificial intelligence is churning out articles, illustrations, fake product reviews and even videos.
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Why the Future of the Computer Is Everywhere, All the Time
'Ambient computing' is coming, and it promises to change how we interact with the world. But there are still a lot of challenges — and concerns — to overcome.
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'Deepfakes' of Celebrities Appearing in Ads
Deepfakes of celebrities have started to appear in ads, with and without their consent.
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Rise in Cyberattacks Stretches, Stresses Defenders
Cybersecurity specialists are working multiple cases simultaneously and dealing with the resulting stress.
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