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Tens of thousands of iPhones and Android devices, the most of whose owners are unaware that their data has been compromised, have had data taken by the little-known phone surveillance program Xnspy. Xnspy is one of many “stalkerware” apps that are marketed for spying on a spouse or domestic partner’s …

The web3 startup Nillion, which aims to create a decentralized network that is not based on a blockchain, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the firm exclusively revealed to TechCrunch. According to Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, “Nillion is a deep technical infrastructure project.” …

Community Notes are now accessible worldwide, according to a tweet from Twitter over the weekend. The social media giant uses a mechanism called Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, to crowdsource fact-checking. Users can use the tool to contextualize tweets, and it uses an open-source methodology to disprove false information. …

We paid attention when it was reported last week that activist investors were urging Coupa Software to not sell for less than $95 a share. Investors rarely write to a company requesting a delay in a sale, as is the custom. Usually, the reverse is true. However, the business declared …

On November 23, Twitter declared that it would no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy and would not take any action against any tweets that did so. Due to the inherent health dangers, the site has previously taken a strong anti-misinformation stance. However, under new guidance from Elon Musk, Twitter …

The space tourism industry is expected to grow significantly over the next ten years, but corporations still need to do more to make the trip exciting. It’s true that you are traveling through space on a hydrogen-powered fireball at a speed of about 28,000 kilometers per hour (17,000 miles per …

Vaughn Langless revealed to investigators for Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News in 2003 that “in 1987, I was involved with the refurbishment of an office facility in Rochester, New York, to make facilities for about 200 telemarketers’ cubicles.” New rooftop heaters and air-handling systems were installed as part of …

Gmail’s creator predicts that within a year or two, the new chatbot ChatGPT will completely upend Google’s business, eradicating the search engine result page. You have probably already encountered a few works produced by ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that can do anything from rewrite “Baby Got …

Everyone who opposes allowing the police to use robots to kill humans has good news: After receiving criticism after passing it by vote last week, San Francisco has put a halt to its plan to permit just that. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a policy last week that …

The company Neuralink recently unveiled a new video in which a monkey is seen typing entirely with its brain, which it claims will advance efforts to implant the chip into people the following year. It’s not the first time we’ve seen something similar, but Neuralink claims the demonstration demonstrates “telepathic …