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Man with leading role in Eritrean riots in The Hague to serve four-year jail sentence

The court in The Hague sentenced 48-year-old Johannes A.

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Ambulances were called on 50 occasions during Dam tot Damloop on Sunday 

Ambulances were called 50 times for participants of the Dam tot Damloop who had become unwell, deputy director René Wit of organizer Le Champion said on Monday.

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GitHub will allow enterprise cloud customers to store data in the EU

Starting from October 29, GitHub says that all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region to store all their code.

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Disposable income on the rise thanks to collectively bargained wage increases

The real disposable income of homes in the Netherlands grew by 1.6 percent in the second quarter compared to a year ago, mainly thanks to an increase in wages of employees due to collective bargain

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News Image This Incredible Distortion Is Like a Magnifying Glass Into Deep Space

"A line-of-sight spanning most of the observable Universe."

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Fintech Jupiter in talks to buy a stake in SBM Bank India

In the latest instance of an Indian fintech startup pursuing strategic partnerships with traditional banking institutions, neobank Jupiter is in talks to acquire a stake in SBM Bank India, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Jupiter, backed by Tiger Global and NuBank, is in discussions to buy a 5% to 9.9% stake in […]

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News Image Scientists in Japan Are About to Build a Supercomputer Like No Other

A thousand times faster than today's fastest machines.

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News Image An official OpenAI X account was taken over to peddle a crypto scam

An official OpenAI account on X was taken over to peddle a cryptocurrency scam on Monday evening. On Monday at 6:24PM ET, the @OpenAINewsroom account, which shares news from OpenAI and has nearly 54,000 followers, made a now-deleted post advertising an “$OPENAI” token. “We’re very happy to announce $OPEANAI: the token bridging the gap between Al and blockchain technology,” the post said. “All OpenAI users are eligible to claim a piece of $OPENAI’s initial supply. Holding $OPENAI will grant access to all of our future beta programs.” The post also included a link to a spoofed version of OpenAI’s website at a URL that wasn’t openai.com.

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US proposes ban on connected vehicle tech from China, Russia

Today, the Biden administration announced new proposed measures to defend the United States' national security from potential threats linked to connected vehicle technologies originating from China and Russia....

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News Image Scientists Grew Microbes in a Lab Experiment, And They Evolved a New Sense

Bacteria that genetically reconfigured themselves.

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News Image Bird flu is spreading rapidly in California; infected herds double over weekend

Enlarge The H5N1 bird flu appears to be stampeding through dairy farms in California, the country's largest milk producer. Over the weekend, the total number of confirmed infected cow herds stunningly doubled, going from 17 last Thursday to 34 Monday morning, according to state and federal officials. With the new tally, California now ranks second among all affected states for having the most herds with avian influenza. Only Colorado, which has adopted bulk milk-tank surveillance, has more, with 64 herds confirmed. California's high ranking is despite the fact that it only reported its first three infected herds on August 30, while the dairy outbreak was first confirmed on March 25 and thought to have begun late last year. To date, 232 herds in 14 states have been infected with the bird flu.

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Crypto scammers hack OpenAI’s press account on X

OpenAI’s official press account on X appears to have been compromised by the same cryptocurrency scammers who compromised the accounts of company leadership in previous months. Late Monday afternoon, OpenAI Newsroom, an account OpenAI recently created to spotlight product- and policy-related announcements, posted about a supposedly new OpenAI-branded blockchain token, “$OPENAI.” “We’re very happy to […]

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News Image Colin Farrell Talks Prosthetically Baring It All for His Penguin Nude Scene

The audience doesn't actually see it in the HBO DC series' premiere, but the actor's make-up job in the torture scene included a surprising level of detail.

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News Image OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days”

Enlarge , which is a term for hypothetical technology that could match human intelligence in performing many tasks without the need for specific training. By contrast, superintelligence surpasses AGI, and it could be seen as a hypothetical level of machine intelligence that can dramatically outperform humans at any intellectual task, perhaps even to an unfathomable degree.

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