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China warns US against letting AI determine life and death on battlefield
China’s military on Wednesday warned the United States against allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to “determine life and death” in warfare, as a dispute between the Pentagon and AI firm Anthropic highlighted growing tensions over military use of the technology. Speaking at a regular briefing in Beijing, defence ministry spokesman Jiang Bin said the “unrestricted application…
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Alternative app store AltStore PAL is joining the fediverse
AltStore PAL, the alternative iOS app store available in the European Union and Japan, is joining the social web. In a post on Wednesday, AltStore PAL announced that users across Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky can now interact with apps that developers choose to federate on its explore.alt.store website. Any likes from the social web will…
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I was a phone addict: These 7 tricks stopped me scrolling and curbed my screen time – fast
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Small changes can slash your screen time, dramatically. Make it harder to grab your phone and mindlessly scroll. Deleting apps works better than relying on app limits and timers. A few months ago, I noticed screen time…
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US energy chiefs deleted Hormuz X post called market manipulation
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a formerfrackingexecutive, was accused on Tuesday of manipulating global markets after he posted a striking claim onsocial media. The American Navy, he wrote, had “successfully escorted anoiltanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing.” The post on X was deleted minutes later, after “oil prices slid at…
