A Mother Says an AI Startup's Chatbot Drove Her Son to Suicide. Its Response: the First Amendment Protects "Speech Allegedly Resulting in Suicide"

Content warning: this story discusses suicide, self-harm, sexual abuse, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. In October of last year, a Google-backed startup called Character.AI was hit by a lawsuit…

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Crunchyroll Confirms User Data Breach But Assures There's Nothing To Worry About

Crunchyroll recently confirmed a data breach involving the posting of Premium user login credentials on social media. While this revelation alarmed fans, Crunchyroll swiftly addressed the matter, stating that its…

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Amazon wants to rent you a 32-core virtual workstation in the cloud for $4.40 per hour and yes, you'd still need to have a thin client to access it

GeneralPurpose.8xlarge delivers 32 virtual cores and 128GB memory plus 275GB storage This is far cheaper than Azure or Google Cloud, but more expensive than onprem if you plan to keep…

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Leaked Documents Show Plot to Dox Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Using Hacking and Facial Recognition

Never content to rest on their hoarded wealth, institutional power, and oligarchic control over our government, a growing number of moneyed right-wingers and their influential allies are now targeting the acclaimed…

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