by bleffel | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga that...
by bleffel | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intentions to form a union. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit have declined to voluntarily...
by bleffel | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Beachgoers on the shore of Lake Lacanau in southwestern France as clouds of smoke rise from the Gironde wildfire. | Maximilien Lamy/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling...
by bleffel | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development – or at least a...
by bleffel | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Georgia man was charged with a felony for allegedly wiping his phone while being questioned by Customs and Border Protection. Samuel Tunick had something in common with others who have had their devices searched at airports: He was an activist. Unlike others who...
by bleffel | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Cath Virginia It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion – from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 billion....
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