Economy

June 25, 2025
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude,…
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June 25, 2025
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Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

Ubuntu users could see up to a 20 percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based systems under a change that…
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June 24, 2025
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The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last…
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June 23, 2025
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Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group

Hackers suspected of working on behalf of the Chinese government exploited a maximum-severity vulnerability, which had received a patch 16…
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June 20, 2025
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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger,…
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June 19, 2025
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Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system

The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in…
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June 18, 2025
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Tech support scammers inject malicious phone numbers into big-name websites

Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target’s web browser…
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June 18, 2025
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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a…
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June 17, 2025
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Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order

Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing…
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June 17, 2025
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OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft

OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company’s largest investor, The Wall Street…
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