Month: August 2024

Company says it will vigorously defend claim by pension fund that its stock price was kept artificially high CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind July’s mass computer outage around the world, has been issued with an investor lawsuit accusing it of defrauding investors. The class action suit, filed in Texas by Plymouth County Retirement Association, a …

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President Javier Milei creates security unit as some say certain groups may be overly scrutinized by the technology Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights. The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied …

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Launched in 2012, the tile-matching puzzler quickly became ubiquitous on phones. More than 10 years later, 200 million people are still playing. Why? A lot of us were, at one point, in love with our smartphones. In the early days of Android and iPhone, apps seemed designed to delight; throw a few quid at the …

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Question-setters Anna Ptaszynski and James Harkin get in the competitive spirit with Quite a Good Sport. Plus: five of the best podcasts about America • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Earlier this week, my colleague Archie Bland of First Edition fame enthusiastically recommended the podcast In the Dark to …

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It mistakenly entered all my business details in the search results for ‘How to contact Google in the UK’ Four years ago, Google mistakenly published my restaurant business’s details, including the phone number and address, in the search results for “how to contact Google in the UK”. At first I got just a few calls …

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