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Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government

Brazil hooks up with Chinese satellite broadband service that doesn't operate yet

Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry

Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists

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A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models

How some of the world's most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong

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A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Filing: the US DOJ's proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade (Brian Fung/CNN)

Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google's search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices (Michael Liedtke/Associated Press)

OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations (Rod McGuirk/Associated Press)

Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical trials of its brain implants and plans to run its first non-US trial with Toronto Western Hospital (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors (Matt Swayne/The Quantum Insider)

Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV operating system, and plans to partner with TV manufacturers for its rollout, expected in H2 2025 (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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