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Binance and Coinbase Have Been Sucked Into a Regulatory Turf War
If a business’s application is rejected by the SEC, it cannot offer securities-related services in the US, at least in…
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This Student Is Taking On ‘Biased’ Exam Software
Porcornie’s legal case is still ongoing. In December, the Dutch Institute of Human Rights issued an interim ruling saying it strongly…
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It’s Way Too Easy to Get Google’s Bard Chatbot to Lie
When Google announced the launch of its Bard chatbot last month, a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it came with some ground rules. An…
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Crashes and Layoffs Plague Amazon’s Drone Delivery Pilot
It took nearly three hours to deliver the card game that morning. The marker was repositioned, the GPS was synced.…
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Microsoft’s New Campus Drove Up Home Prices. Where Are the Jobs?
Microsoft says it still plans to reserve about one-quarter of the land for community use, but those uses have no…
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I’m Healing From the Tech Layoffs by Playing ‘Going Under’
Beyond the game’s eclectic weapons, we later learn that the monsters are the ghosts of past failed startups. Each startup…
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The Internet Archive’s Literary Civil War
A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G. Koetl skipped…
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Paris Fell in Love With Escooters. Now It Might Ban Them
Atop my escooter, I am a human in a city of apes. With my back straight, I tower above my…
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Trump’s Indictment Marks a Historic Reckoning
The literally unprecedented indictment against Donald Trump marks an outright dangerous—and politically fraught—moment for the United States and serves as…
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Let the AI Coding Wars Begin!
The big news this week was a call from tech luminaries to pause development and deployment of AI models more advanced…
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