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Economy
PyPI halted new users and projects while it fended off supply-chain attack
Enlarge / Supply-chain attacks, like the latest PyPI discovery, insert malicious code into seemingly functional software packages used by developers.…
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Economy
Ubuntu will manually review Snap Store after crypto wallet scams
Enlarge / One thing you can say about this crypto wallet: You can’t confuse it for any other. (credit: Getty…
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Economy
Proxmox gives VMware ESXi users a place to go after Broadcom kills free version
Enlarge (credit: Proxmox) Broadcom has made sweeping changes to VMware’s business since acquiring the company in November 2023, killing off…
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Investing
The Case Against Antitrust
Robert A. Levy Competition is an essential ingredient of capitalism. Accordingly, when a corporation appears to have acquired sufficient market dominance…
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Investing
Who You Calling Far Right?
David Boaz Ideological labels are challenging. They change over time. They often originate as terms of abuse for one’s opponents.…
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Economy
Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of servers storing AI workloads and network credentials have been hacked in an ongoing attack…
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Economy
Canva’s Affinity acquisition is a non-subscription-based weapon against Adobe
Enlarge / Affinity’s photo editor. (credit: Canva) Online graphic design platform provider Canva announced its acquisition of Affinity on Tuesday.…
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Investing
Idaho Slides Backwards by Prioritizing Abstinence over Preserving Life
Jeffrey A. Singer This week, Idaho’s Republican Governor Brad Little signed HB 617 into law. The bill repeals Idaho’s five‐year‐old…
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Economy
“MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts
Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more of these stacked up, you…
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Economy
“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Tuesday, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-4…
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