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Phoebe Gates’s Phia accused of “cookie stuffing” and taking affiliate commissions

Phia’s browser extension was supposed to help shoppers find better deals, but it may also have redirected affiliate commissions to itself. Let us explain. A celebrity-backed shopping startup co-founded by Bill Gates‘s daughter Phoebe Gates and her former Stanford University roommate Sophia Kianni has been suspended from affiliate platform Impact.com. The suspension came after a…

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AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Amid years of warnings that China’s notorious Volt Typhoon hackers may be pre-positioning within United States critical infrastructure, a closed-door war game for insurers played out an array of worst-case scenarios—revealing a menacing, disruptive threat. ICE’s internal oversight group, the Office of Professional Responsibility, has begun investigating online critics of the agency, opening more than…

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Apple v. OpenAI lawsuit: 8 key allegations explained

Apple and OpenAI are heading to court. On Friday, July 10, Apple sued OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company led by CEO Sam Altman, and two former Apple employees, accusing the ChatGPT maker of obtaining confidential Apple information to help build its own consumer hardware. The lawsuit names OpenAI’s commercial and nonprofit entities, its hardware company…

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