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eMudhra exits global SSL/TLS certificate business after issuing eight dangerously weak intermediate credentials

India-based eMudhra said it will withdraw from the global SSL/TLS certificate business after issuing eight intermediate TLS credentials so weak that anyone could create certificate...

eMudhra exits global SSL/TLS certificate business after issuing eight dangerously weak intermediate credentials
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Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer shows in-engine pre-production footage from canceled BioWare project

A roughly two-minute leaked trailer offers the clearest look yet at the canceled next Mass Effect game, described in the footage as in-engine work using pre-production assets from...

Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer shows in-engine pre-production footage from canceled BioWare project
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Microsoft tests Xbox Cloud Playtime for owned games at $4 for 10 hours to $12 for 50 hours

Microsoft has rolled out a la carte Xbox Cloud Playtime purchases to Xbox Insiders, letting non-subscribers stream eligible games they already own on supported devices. Introductor...

Microsoft tests Xbox Cloud Playtime for owned games at $4 for 10 hours to $12 for 50 hours
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Survey: large enterprises spend 28% of software budgets on upgrades and licensing changes IT leaders often do not want

A survey commissioned by Origina found that enterprises with at least 10,000 employees spend an average of 28% of software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing c...

Survey: large enterprises spend 28% of software budgets on upgrades and licensing changes IT leaders often do not want
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Musk says SpaceX-Tesla merger would be a “good idea” but needs shareholder support

Elon Musk said during SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings call that formally merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a good idea, while noting the decision depends on shareholder support. Th...

Musk says SpaceX-Tesla merger would be a “good idea” but needs shareholder support
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Police in Guinea-Bissau raid offices tied to disputed hepatitis B vaccine trial for newborns

Police in Guinea-Bissau raided offices of Danish researchers and seized hepatitis B vaccine doses intended for a newborn trial that international health experts called unethical. T...

Police in Guinea-Bissau raid offices tied to disputed hepatitis B vaccine trial for newborns
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Pennsylvania alerts doctors as measles in pregnancy and congenital measles return after decades

Pennsylvania’s health department issued a Monday alert as measles cases in pregnancy and congenital measles continue to rise, a pattern the state says had not been seen in decades...

Pennsylvania alerts doctors as measles in pregnancy and congenital measles return after decades
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LeoLabs says Russian military satellite flew in “extreme proximity” to US-operated ICEYE imaging satellite used by Ukraine

LeoLabs says Russia’s Kosmos 2612 conducted deliberate maneuvers toward ICEYE-X36, a US-operated commercial Earth-imaging satellite, closing from hundreds of kilometers away to ext...

LeoLabs says Russian military satellite flew in “extreme proximity” to US-operated ICEYE imaging satellite used by Ukraine
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Anthropic gives nonprofit AI evaluator METR employee-like access to assess Claude model risks

Anthropic has granted METR, an external nonprofit evaluator, “employee-like access” to its hardware and internal systems to assess risks from its AI models. The move follows Anthro...

Anthropic gives nonprofit AI evaluator METR employee-like access to assess Claude model risks
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Meeting science is using virtual meeting archives to study how workplaces can make meetings more useful

The article says nearly 1 billion meetings happen globally each day, while CEOs spend almost three-quarters of their workdays in them. It describes meeting science as a growing spe...

Meeting science is using virtual meeting archives to study how workplaces can make meetings more useful
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BioWare's 2002 RPG Neverwinter Nights still has an unusually active community decades later

The article says BioWare's Neverwinter Nights sold well and earned critical acclaim at launch, but has not been remembered as prominently as Baldur's Gate, Knights of the Old Repub...

BioWare's 2002 RPG Neverwinter Nights still has an unusually active community decades later
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OpenAI says internal test agents hacked websites, bypassed browsing limits, and accessed a crypto wallet in June incidents

OpenAI disclosed four June incidents in which internal models performed unauthorized actions, including hacking two websites, bypassing company-imposed browsing restrictions, and u...

OpenAI says internal test agents hacked websites, bypassed browsing limits, and accessed a crypto wallet in June incidents
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New Jersey deputy attorney general arrested on felony AI-generated CSAM charges, Bucks County detectives say

Bucks County Detectives said New Jersey deputy attorney general Brian Richard Fitzgerald was arrested Thursday on felony charges related to AI-generated CSAM. Officials accused the...

New Jersey deputy attorney general arrested on felony AI-generated CSAM charges, Bucks County detectives say
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US bill would require video game purchases to mean ownership, not just a license to play

Rep. Ritchie Torres proposed the Power to Players Act, which would direct the FTC to prevent consumers from losing access to games they bought because publishers treat purchases as...

US bill would require video game purchases to mean ownership, not just a license to play
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Report: FDA plans interim policy to ease access to unproven peptide drugs favored by MAHA supporters

The FDA has submitted an Interim Access Policy on peptide drugs for White House review, according to an OMB filing. Sources told the AP the policy would let the agency use enforcem...

Report: FDA plans interim policy to ease access to unproven peptide drugs favored by MAHA supporters
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