Tech

Hackers steal nearly 1.7 million credit card numbers in breach

It seems like there’s a major new data breach occurring every few weeks now. Personal emails, phone numbers, and addresses are among the most common data affected by these breaches.But it’s much more concerning when bank account numbers or credit card information getting into the wrong hands. And one such …

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Amazon's AI chatbot will start serving ads to users

You can’t escape advertising on the internet…even AI chatbots are starting to send ads your way. In an update provided to its advertisers, ecommerce giant Amazon has shared that it will start serving ads via its AI-powered shopping assistant chatbot called Rufus. SEE ALSO: New evidence claims Google, Microsoft, Meta, …

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This state is allowing AI to help rule on its unemployment claims

Nevada will become the first state to pilot a generative AI system designed to make unemployment claim decisions, marketed as a way to speed up appeals and tackle the nation’s overwhelming backlog of cases. It’s a risky, first-time experiment at integrating AI into higher-level decision making. Google is behind the …

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AI could help save a threatened language by adding it to your phone

For centuries, the now-endangered Crimean Tatar language (traditionally spoken in Crimea) has been threatened by a series of Russian invasions — first, by the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries; then, by the forced deportations of Crimean tatars in 1944, ordered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In 2014, …

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