Published on: 2025-04-22 18:53:20
On Thursday, weeks after launching its most powerful AI model yet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google published a technical report showing the results of its internal safety evaluations. However, the report is light on the details, experts say, making it difficult to determine which risks the model might pose. Technical reports provide useful — and unflattering, at times — info that companies don’t always widely advertise about their AI. By and large, the AI community sees these reports as good-faith effor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 03:15:00
Cutting corners: A new report has reignited the debate over how much tax the world's largest technology companies pay, revealing that the so-called "Silicon Six" – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix – have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past decade than would be expected if their profits were taxed at the average statutory rate for US companies. The analysis, conducted by the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF), scrutinizes the financial records and tax
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 06:32:48
In Brief Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. “Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,” Zoom said in a post on X at around 2 p.m. Pacific. The trouble began around 11:40 a.m., according to The Verge, citing data from Cisco’s ThousandEyes platform. Users on social media reported having trouble logging in, and getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 14:23:47
The Spotify logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 4, 2023. Spotify was down Wednesday, with about 50,000 reports of an outage on DownDetector. "We are aware of the outage and working to resolve it as soon as possible. The reports of this being a security hack are false," the company wrote in a post to X via their SpotifyStatus account. The music streaming giant did not provide details about the scope of the outage.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 14:22:00
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If your Spotify is having issues, you're not alone. Thousands of people are reporting problems with the music streaming app. Earlier this morning, social media was flooded with frustrated comments as users began reporting issues with streaming music on the popular service. For some, the app would load, but songs wouldn't play. For others, the app wouldn't load at all. The issue seems to be affecting every version of Spotify, including the app, the web player, and t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 13:52:32
Spotify is down according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music. At 8:45AM ET on Wednesday morning, the Spotify Status account on X said it was “aware of some issues” affecting the service right now, and is currently “checking them out.” It’s unclear what is causing the outages or when users can expect regular service to be restored. As of 10:39AM ET, Spotify says it’s working to resolve the outage “as soon as po
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 22:44:40
Thousands report Spotify problems around the world Tens of thousands of Spotify users around the world have reported they were unable to stream music on the app. Downdetector, which tracks platforms, showed more than 20,000 people reported Spotify was not functioning on Wednesday afternoon from 13:30 GMT. Thousands more reported issues in the US and parts of Europe. Spotify told the BBC "the issue with Search has been addressed" it was rolling out the update to its users. However it is uncl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 06:23:26
Debate around how much taxes US-based streaming services should pay internationally, among other factors, could result in people paying more for subscriptions to services like Netflix and Disney+. On April 10, the United Kingdom's Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee reignited calls for a streaming tax on subscription revenue acquired through UK residents. The recommendation came alongside the committee's 120-page report [PDF] that makes numerous recommendations for how to support and grow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 01:20:00
Microtransactions — small purchases that gamers make on items like costumes or gestures in games including Fortnite and Roblox — continue to account for the majority of PC gaming revenue, rising to 58% of revenue for game companies, according to a report from research firm Newzoo. Money coming in from PC gaming microtransactions rose by 1.4%, accounting for $24.4 billion of the overall $37.3 billion in PC gaming sales in 2024, according to The PC and Console Gaming Report 2025. Downloadable co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 22:00:17
Alfonso Cuarón reveals he’s spoken to Amazon about the future of James Bond. Mike Flanagan’s Carrie TV series may have found its Carrie. Plus, Mayfair Witches gets a season 3. To me, my spoilers! Magic: The Gathering Deadline reports Matt Johnson (BlackBerry, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie) is Legendary and Hasbro’s top choice to direct the Magic: The Gathering movie. However, neither company has yet to make “a formal offer” to the director. Untitled Monsterverse Movie Deadline also re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 16:55:53
While it often seems that no one is watching the watchmen under the Trump administration, a new report from Wired suggests there is at least one agency still keeping tabs on the Department of Government Efficiency and its seemingly unfettered reach into the guts of government. The publication, citing government records and sources, revealed that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) launched an investigation back in March into how Elon Musk’s pseudo-agency has been handling data in the offi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 10:12:43
Jon Reed is a senior editor covering artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade of experience of writing and reporting, including as a statehouse reporter in Columbus, Ohio, a crime reporter in Birmingham, Alabama, and as a mortgage and housing market editor for TIME's former personal finance brand, NextAdvisor. When not asking people questions, he can
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 18:25:53
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has put a hold on the Trump administration’s nomination of Sean Plankey to head the federal government’s top cybersecurity agency, citing a “multi-year cover up” of security flaws at U.S. telecommunication companies. Wyden said in remarks, seen by TechCrunch and confirmed by the senator’s spokesperson, that he will block the nomination of Plankey to serve as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) until the agency agrees to release a 202
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 02:21:21
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2025 AI Index Report, providing a data-driven analysis of AI’s global development. HAI has been developing a report on AI over the last several years, with its first benchmark coming in 2022. Needless to say, a lot has changed. The 2025 report is loaded with statistics. Among some
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 23:00:06
Apple is working on an artificial intelligence doctor or healthcare coach, according to a report, to work as a kind of health coach that would be integrated with its mobile devices like the iPhone and Apple Watch. It would reportedly offer advice on food habits and exercise techniques, and use data that Apple already collects from Apple's Health app and hardware including the Apple Watch. The initiative is called Project Mulberry, as reported by Mark Gurman in a Bloomberg story this week, and i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 14:19:26
After The New York Times sued OpenAI in December 2023—alleging that ChatGPT outputs violate copyrights by regurgitating news articles—the ChatGPT maker tried and failed to argue that the claims were time-barred. According to OpenAI, the NYT should have known that ChatGPT was being trained on its articles and raised its lawsuit in 2020, partly because of the newspaper's own reporting. To support this, OpenAI pointed to a single November 2020 article, where the NYT reported that OpenAI was analyz
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 18:07:21
A hacker breached the GitLab repositories of multinational car-rental company Europcar Mobility Group and stole source code for Android and iOS applications, as well as some personal information belonging to up to 200,000 customers. The actor tried to extort the company by threatening to publish 37GB of data that includes backups and details about the company’s cloud infrastructure and internal applications. Europcar Mobility Group is a subsidiary of Green Mobility Holding that operates the Eu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 11:06:07
(Reuters) -Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture to operate the U.S. chipmaker's factories, the Information reported on Thursday, citing two people involved in the discussions. TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, will take a 20% stake in the new company, the report said. The White House and Commerce department officials have been pressing TSMC and Intel to strike a deal to resolve the long-running crisis at Intel,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 02:25:46
In Brief Semiconductor giants Intel and TSMC are reportedly teaming up. The two firms are said to have reached a tentative agreement to create a joint venture that will operate Intel’s chipmaking facilities, according to The Information. TSMC will have a 20% stake in the new venture. Instead of funding its stake with capital, TSMC will share some of its chipmaking practices with Intel employees and train them, added The Information. The Trump Administration reportedly kindled the discussions
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 12:46:31
National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, according to a Washington Post report published yesterday. Waltz has been at the center of controversy for weeks because he inadvertently invited The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat in which top Trump administration officials discussed a plan for bombing Houthi targets in Yemen. Yesterday's report of Gmail use and another recent report on additional Si
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 22:42:38
General view of a Tesla Store in Paramus, New Jersey, on March 20, 2025. Tesla reported 336,681 vehicle deliveries in the first quarter of 2025, a 13% decline from a year ago, two days after the electric vehicle company's stock wrapped up its worst quarter since 2022. The company's shares were last up nearly 4%, rebounding from a dip after Politico reported that CEO Elon Musk could leave his Department of Government Efficiency position. Here are the key numbers: Total deliveries Q1 2025: 336
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 14:57:04
General view of a Tesla Store in Paramus, New Jersey, on March 20, 2025. Tesla reported 336,000 vehicle deliveries in the first quarter of 2025, a 13% decline from a year ago, two days after the electric vehicle company's stock wrapped up its worst quarter since 2022. Shares slumped 4% following the news. Here are the key numbers: Total deliveries Q1 2025: 336,681 Total production Q1 2025: 362,615 Investors were expecting Tesla to report deliveries of between 360,000 and 370,000 vehicles,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 11:37:14
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge has reportedly been delayed. The phone is now expected to debut between May and June. Samsung is not expected to hold a big launch event and will instead reveal the price and availability details of the device online. Just yesterday, a report suggested that the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge could launch as early as April 15. However, a new conflicting report now claims the ultra-slim device will see a delay, pushing
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 06:23:30
2024 was "a year of growth," according to fire-suppression company Fire Rover, but that's not an entirely good thing. The company, which offers fire detection and suppression systems based on thermal and optical imaging, smoke analytics, and human verification, releases annual reports on waste and recycling facility fires in the US and Canada to select industry and media. In 2024, Fire Rover, based on its fire identifications, saw 2,910 incidents, a 60 percent increase from the 1,809 in 2023, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 06:23:10
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority When Google added the Deep Research option to Gemini, I tested it right away. That was back in December, and my conclusion was that it was somewhat of a hit and miss. While the feature worked well for relatively basic inquiries, in-depth research on recent and slightly more complicated topics proved challenging for it. Recently, Google announced the new and improved Deep Research, which is now based on the Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model. But ho
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 13:54:46
A potential supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL started simply: a publicly exposed secret, valid for 1.022 seconds at a time. In that second, an attacker could take a series of steps that would allow them to execute code within a GitHub Actions workflow in most repositories using CodeQL, GitHub’s code analysis engine trusted by hundreds of thousands of repositories. The impact would reach both public GitHub (GitHub Cloud) and GitHub Enterprise. If backdooring GitHub Actions sounds familiar, t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 11:00:33
According to a panel of hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, the field is currently pursuing artificial general intelligence the wrong way. This insight was revealed at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)’s 2025 Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research. The lengthy report was put together by 24 AI researchers whose expertise ranges from the state of AI infrastructure to the social aspects of artificial intelligence. The report included a mai
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 08:14:33
We're on week two of the fallout from the Signal group chat scandal — and apparently, there's a lot more where that came from. Reporters at Germany's Der Spiegel have, as the newspaper reported, uncovered private contact information for defense secretary Pete Hegseth, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz — the same guy who added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to that damningly insecure groupchat where plans to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 16:11:05
The legacy domain for Microsoft Stream was hijacked to show a fake Amazon site promoting a Thailand casino, causing all SharePoint sites with old embedded videos to display it as spam. Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video streaming service that allows organizations to upload and share videos in Microsoft 365 apps, such as Teams and SharePoint. Video content hosted on Microsoft Stream was accessed or embedded through a portal at microsoftstream.com. In September 2020, Microsoft announced th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 22:11:05
The legacy domain for Microsoft Stream was hijacked to show a fake Amazon site promoting a Thailand casino, causing all SharePoint sites with old embedded videos to display it as spam. Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video streaming service that allows organizations to upload and share videos in Microsoft 365 apps, such as Teams and SharePoint. Video content hosted on Microsoft Stream was accessed or embedded through a portal at microsoftstream.com. In September 2020, Microsoft announced th
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