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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
UN nuclear watchdog report seen by AP says Iran slows its enrichment of near-weapons-grade uranium
A U.N. reports shows that Iran has slowed the pace at which it is enriching uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads. Then a Norwegian regulator threatened fines of $100,000 per day.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
FTC sues Amazon over 'deceptive' Prime sign-up and cancellation process
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the nation’s dominant online retailer intentionally duped millions of consumers into signing up for its mainstay Prime program and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel. The agency claims Amazon violated the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act by using so-called dark patterns, or deceptive design tactics meant to steer users toward a specific choice, to push consumers to enroll in Prime without their consent.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Titanic asteroid the size of 84 orcas to pass Earth on Monday
A massive asteroid the size of 84 orcas is set to pass by the Earth on Monday, June 12, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The asteroid in question has been designated 488453 (1994 XD), according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Despite the initials, it has nothing to do with the XD emoticon some older users of SMS and instant messaging may recognize.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Reddit is the latest tech company to announce layoffs, affecting 5 percent of its workers
The layoffs will see 90 people lose their jobs at Reddit, which will also cut down on hiring for the rest of the year. The company is also facing a backlash against its updated API pricing.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Elon Musk's Neuralink 'brain chips' cleared for 1st in-human trials
Brain implants developed by Elon Musk's company Neuralink have been approved for human testing. The safety of the devices previously came under scrutiny following reports of "botched surgeries" in animal test subjects.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Microsoft will stop supporting Cortana on Windows later this year
Microsoft is ending support for Cortana in Windows. In a support page spotted by XDA Developers and Windows Central, the company says it will “no longer support Cortana in Windows as a standalone app” starting later this year. Cortana’s discontinuation on Windows doesn’t come as much of a surprise. During its Build conference in May, Microsoft announced its new Windows Copilot tool, which will live in your taskbar and use AI to help you do everything — and more — that Cortana does on...
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Actor Danny Masterson convicted of two counts of rape at second Los Angeles trial
Actor Danny Masterson was convicted of two counts of rape Wednesday after his second trial on charges that he sexually assaulted three women he met through the Church of Scientology, ending a years-long legal saga that marked a rare instance of the controversial faith’s practices being dragged into a courtroom.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Bison calf euthanized after a Yellowstone visitor lifted it out of a river, causing the herd to reject it
An unidentified man picked up the bison calf after it was separated from its mother as the herd crossed the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
The faithful see both crisis and opportunity as churches close across the country
When Pastor Douglas Theobald steps to the pulpit at Struthers United Methodist Church this Sunday, it will likely be the last religious service in its 112-year history. Over the years, Struthers UMC has weathered the boom and bust cycles of the Youngstown, Ohio, suburb. In the 1960s, when the steel industry was at its height, it was common to see as many as 250 people in the pews on any given Sunday. But Theobald, who started preaching there in 2009, has presided over a congregation in slow decl...
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1 year agoExpression takai
Ministers not doing enough to control AI, says UK professor
One of the professors at the forefront of artificial intelligence has said ministers are not doing enough to protect against the dangers of super-intelligent machines in the future.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Zelenskiy bans Russian placenames to reinforce Ukraine’s national identity
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine has signed two laws that strictly reinforce his country’s national identity, banning Russian placenames and making knowledge of Ukrainian language and history a requirement for citizenship.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Twitter is adding verified check marks to the accounts of dead celebrities, making them look like paid Twitter Blue subscribers
Kobe Bryant, Anthony Bourdain, and Chadwick Boseman were among the celebrities the app says bought a subscription and verified their phone number.
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1 year agoCurrent Event takai
Most U.S. Banks Near Insolvency, Hundreds Already Fully Insolvent
The yield on 10-year U.S. treasury bonds was at roughly 1% in January 2022, and the German bonds were trading at -0.5%. That signaled the drastically bad effect inflation would have for stocks and bonds. An increase in inflation could increase bond yields, which only means bad things for stocks. Because there’s an inverse relation between yields and bond prices, higher yields indicate a price fall for them.