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AI facial recognition: Campaigners and MPs call for ban

AI-powered facial recognition has been used in real time by police forces and private companies.

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Prada to design Nasa’s new Moon suit

Art meets science as Prada designers help create the spacesuits for the 2025 Moon mission.

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All eyes on VW after Hyundai, Kia adopt Tesla charging standard

Hyundai and Kia have finally announced their plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) ports for their electric vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, joining the swells of automakers that have also promised to do so. The move … Continue reading

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a16z-backed Castelion wants to mass produce defense hardware, starting with hypersonics

One builds weapons in order that they are not used. Thus goes the central premise of deterrence theory, which says it is the credible threat of aggression – not the use of aggression – that will ensure states avoid war. … Continue reading

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Alameda had a $65B line of credit and ‘unlimited withdrawals’

Alameda’s “unlimited funds” came from FTX customers, the crytpo exchange’s co-founder says on the stand.

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Hacked phone spyware shuts down… again

A short-lived spyware operation called Oospy, which emerged earlier this year after its predecessor Spyhide was hacked, is no longer operational and has shut down. Oospy appeared online in late July as a rebrand of a phone monitoring app called … Continue reading

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SEC sues to force Elon Musk to testify in Twitter probe

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in an effort to compel the Twitter owner to testify regarding his purchase of the company.

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Everybody’s posting AI-generated yearbook pictures with this viral app

Epik, a free-to-download photo editing app, offers a 90s-style yearbook photo edit that has gone viral on Instagram and TikTok. 

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Microsoft Redesigns OneDrive for Business Layout

Microsoft OneDrive is adding new SharePoint features and will let the Copilot AI summarize and interpret files.

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Lawsuit alleges discriminatory pay schemes at SpaceX

SpaceX is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that the company pays women and minority employees less than their white and male colleagues. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by SpaceX engineer Ashley Foltz, … Continue reading

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