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Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he will endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence

New malware posing as a browser update is taking aim at Apple devices.

Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars

Worldwide sales of smartphone devices grew 5% year-over-year in October. Analysts say the launch of the iPhone 15 series is among the reasons for the turnaround.

Peruvian scientists say Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades due to climate change

A train has derailed and spilled a chemical in a remote part of eastern Kentucky, prompting officials to encourage residents of a small town to evacuate amid concerns about air quality

It’s been quite a week for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — and co-founder Sam Altman

While the scandals in the cryptocurrency industry seem to never end, Washington policymakers appear to have little interest in pushing through legislation to codify the structure of the industry

The FCC will vote on whether to eliminate early termination charges for cable and satellite services.

Computer chip and software maker Broadcom says it has cleared all regulatory hurdles and plans to complete its $69 billion acquisition of cloud technology company VMware on Wednesday

Broadcom says it has cleared all regulatory hurdles for acquiring VM Ware and plans to close the deal on Wednesday.

The ousted leader of ChatGPT maker OpenAI is returning to the company that fired him just days ago

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says ousted CEO Sam Altman to return with new board just days after previous one fired him

A strong, deep undersea earthquake shook the eastern side of Indonesia on Wednesday

Unlike Google, Facebook and countless other tech giants, the company behind ChatGPT was not created to be a business

Officials say cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive data and threatened to post it on the dark web in a ransomware attack that has hobbled access to records for more than five weeks

Founder of Binance, world’s largest crypto exchange, pleads guilty to U.S. charge as company agrees to pay $4 billion

The U.S. government has dealt a massive blow to Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange

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The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain have briefly became inaccessible after a cyberattack took them down, purportedly over the island kingdom’s stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war

Britain’s top court has ruled that riders for one of the country’s biggest meal delivery companies don’t have collective bargaining rights because they aren’t employees

Bloomberg reports that the company will need more time to test the mixed reality device.

Some researchers downplayed the impact, noting limited influence of online ads.

The eruption of Papua New Guinea’s tallest volcano is subsiding but thick ash still billowed into the sky and coated roofs and palm trees nearby

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has portrayed Google as a ruthless bully that resorts to shady tactics to protect a predatory payment system

Elon Musk's social media company X has filed a lawsuit against liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America

North Korea says it has put a military spy satellite into orbit on its third attempt

Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, fires founder and CEO Sam Altman, leading employees to threaten to walk out.

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean in the Mariana Trench has died

A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X, demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online

Shear is best known for his role as the former chief executive of the video game streaming platform Twitch.

A company proposing a wind farm off New Jersey is investing $10.6 million to help grow the industry’s supply chain and support related technology startups

Ukrainian officials say two top civilian cybersecurity officials have been fired on corruption allegations involving software purchases from 2020-2022

OpenAI is bringing in the former head of Twitch as interim CEO just days after the company pushed out its well-known leader, Sam Altman, sparking upheaval in the world of artificial intelligence

Plus, Nothing Chats messaging app launch delayed due to privacy concerns and “The Last of Us Part II Remastered” will be released to PS5 in January.

A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold

A former chief scientific adviser says Boris Johnson struggled as British prime minister to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. is setting up a new science initiative to help develop flood-tolerant rice, disease-resistant wheat and other crops that are more resilient to climate change

Airbnb has named Ron Klain, former White House Chief of Staff for President Joe Biden, as its chief legal officer

The company that created ChatGPT is in turmoil after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many more employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part oin part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans

The operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant says the release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean has ended safely as planned

Kyle Vogt has resigned as CEO of Cruise, General Motors' autonomous vehicle unit

Rights group Afghan Witness says online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active Afghan women significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021

The spacecraft apparently detonated after reaching space.

It will be months before it's safe for evacuated residents to go home.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade

SpaceX launches giant new rocket but loses spacecraft eight minutes into flight

SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into a second test flight

Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for immediate relief from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods