Beijing’s communist government is supporting illicit trade in deadly fentanyl by offering tax rebates and other incentives to manufacturers in China, according to a bipartisan report by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
The way China regulates its tech industry can seem highly unpredictable. The government can celebrate the achievements of Chinese tech companies one day and then turn against them the next. But there are patterns in how China approaches regulating tech, argues Angela Huyue Zhang, a law professor at Hong Kong University and author of the…
Algorithms and clickbait are stripping the internet of the adventurous spirit it was built on, but we can bring it back, writes Kyle Duckitt.
In late 2021, OpenAI faced a supply problem. The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest AI system. It needed more data to train the next version of its technology -- lots more. So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper. It could transcribe the audio from YouTube videos, yielding new conversational text that would make an AI system smarter. Some OpenAI employees discussed...
U.S. intelligence agencies are working on a report expected to reveal extensive corruption and hidden wealth held by Chinese Communist Party leaders, including President Xi Jinping, who also holds the post of party general secretary. The report is required in law by a section of the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act signed by President Biden in December.
A small number of Home Depot employee data has been compromised through a third-party data breach. Home Depot has formally revealed that a third-party data breach caused by one of its SaaS partners affected a "small" number of sensitive employee records.
ACT government promises ‘one-off’ payment of $200,000Club still afloat but long-viability remains in doubtCanberra United’s immediate future has been secured by a belated injection of funding from the ACT government, but the long-term viability of one of the country’s most successful women’s clubs remains in doubt.The club’s owners Capital Football revealed in March they needed more investment to keep operating the team, which has cost $2.5m over the past two years. Continue reading
The design of a new train station in the Chinese City of Nanjing has been relentlessly mocked on social media, with internet users comparing the shape to a sanitary pad.
T-Mobile has made changes to its Home Internet priority data limit. It was only early this year when the Un-carrier added minor restrictions that deprioritized the data of new users once they went over a certain limit. Unfortunately, the Un-carrier made a change that extends this policy to all other 5G Home Internet users. It was only a matter of time before T-Mobile extended the priority data limit to other Home Internet users. And today, [read full article]
Epic Systems, the electronic health records giant, cut off its data supply to Particle Health, claiming the startup was using information in unauthorized ways.
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BBC SPORT host Emma Louise Jones has shared a brilliant video of her attempting a bit of MMA. The presenter, 34, is best-known for fronting football content such as MOTDx and coverage of matches on