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Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Elon Musk’s Starlink

After the first launch was postponed due to weather, Amazon’s Kuiper satellites are off to space.

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Oracle engineers caused days-long software outage at U.S. hospitals

Oracle engineers triggered a five-day outage at several Community Health Systems hospitals, causing the facilities to temporarily return to paper-based records.

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House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump

The Take It Down Act, which united a coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers, criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit images of others and requires companies to remove them.

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Amazon Launches First 27 Project Kuiper Internet Satellites

The spacecraft are the online giant’s entry into beaming wireless service from space, but the company has much to do before it can compete with SpaceX’s Starlink.

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OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations

A bug in OpenAI’s ChatGPT allowed the chatbot to generate graphic erotica for accounts where a user registered as a minor, under the age of 18, TechCrunch’s testing revealed, and OpenAI confirmed.  In some cases, the chatbot even encouraged these … Continue reading

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Deel officially agrees to be served legal papers in Rippling’s lawsuit

HR tech giant Deel says it has formally accepted to be served legal documents in its ongoing court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland. This ends weeks of suspense after Rippling’s bailiffs couldn’t find Deel’s execs to serve them – … Continue reading

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Alibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen 3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models available from Google and OpenAI. Most of the models are — or soon will … Continue reading

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NXP Semi shares sink on tariff concerns, CEO Kurt Sievers to step down

NXP Semiconductor Inc. fell about 6% on Monday after the chip company announced that CEO Kurt Sievers will step down as part of its latest earnings.

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Microsoft says U.S. can’t afford falling behind China in quantum computers

“Simply put, the United States cannot afford to fall behind, or worse, lose the race entirely.”

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Mysterious financier asks judge to stop Canoo asset sale

A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO, calling it a “flawed” process. Charles Garson, a UK-based investor with no obvious ties to … Continue reading

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