Pair win Turing Award for computer encryption breakthrough

Here’s a feature that would’ve been a lot more useful before this week. Amid recent hours-long airport lines, United is adding security wait times to its app. However, the feature arrives a few days after security lines began returning to normal. Hey, at least it’ll be there for the next shutdown. At launch, the feature…

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Reddit has launched a challenge in Australia’s highest court against the nation’s landmark social media ban for children. The online forum is among 10 social media platforms which must bar Australians aged under 16 from having accounts, under a new law which began on Wednesday. The ban, which is being watched closely around the world,…

One of the most effective use cases to have emerged from modern AI models is their ability to understand the human voice better, which has led to more accurate dictation tools. One such Mac tool, Willow, is launching an iOS app to let users type with their voice across all apps. Similar to Wispr Flow,…

Wildlight Entertainment, the studio behind Highguard, Level designer Alex Graner that the layoffs impacted “most of the team.” The company says it’s keeping a “core group of developers to continue innovating on and supporting the game.” That sounds like a skeleton crew. Highguard is an . The team included many Apex Legends and Titanfall developers….

In a bid to stave off a major investigation by the European Commission, Meta said on Thursday that it would allow AI companies to offer their chatbots on WhatsApp via its business API for the next 12 months in Europe. The move comes a month after the European Commission told Meta that it intended to…