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Watch Duty proved indispensable during the recent LA wildfires. John Mills, the app's creator, wants it to be the one place to go for tracking disasters. He just needs all the data to do it.

Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale their crimes, the problem could get worse.

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Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn't stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.

At least dozens of workers at the Technology Transformation Service were fired on Wednesday, a day after similar sudden cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

After years of GOP attacks on US health agencies, Trump appointees are poised to bring Covid-19 conspiracies to their leadership of US agencies. Federal workers are scared of what comes next.

The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings-some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.

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A team Microsoft calls BadPilot is acting as Sandworm's initial access operation," the company says. And over the last year it's trained its sights on the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.

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The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives, including from Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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Once reserved for romantic partners and other loved ones, the heart emoji can now mean anything-which means it has no meaning at all.

Beyond treating diabetes and helping people lose weight, GLP-1s may also improve libido. But the reasons are as complex as desire itself.

After former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao went to prison, Richard Teng set out to show that the crypto exchange is now on its best behavior.

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In a letter to a US senator, a Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, revealing the global nature of online ad surveillance.

Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

The cease-work order at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won't just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the complaint on behalf of US federal workers, arguing that DOGE's data access is illegal and should be cut off.

Google is among the first companies to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its maps. Other sources for online maps have not yet followed Donald Trump's executive order.

The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.

A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk's xAI startup is researching a method to alter the politics of Grok and better align the chatbot with conservatives.

OpenAI's CEO claims the company has yet to receive an official offer from Elon Musk's team, sources say.

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Grindr CEO George Arison is going all-in on artificial intelligence. I tested the beta version of the queer app's AI wingman, letting it guide my interactions and offer advice.

Do people really fall in love with AI? I dated bots from four different companies for a week-and found out it was easier than I thought.

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NASA's Martian probes have captured photos of the Red Planet's extremely active" spring.

In its notice outlining the large cut in university funding, the US National Institutes of Health seems to draw on a report from a conservative think tank that denounces the political left."

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Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts-and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.

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