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Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout – and turn toward open source
Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Another European move toward digital sovereignty has curtailed adopting the US workplace suite. The Netherlands stopped a government agency's shift to Microsoft 365. The drive toward an open-source, digital sovereignty approach continues. What the Netherlands will move to next is quite vague.
In India, a Dark Shadow Falls on Its Vaunted Elections
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These MacBooks are under 700 for a limited time
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Fake Facebook Marketplace listing uses your name
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As a pediatrician, loss of human connection is the biggest threat to kids, not AI
'The greatest threat to connection may not be technology itself.' 'The greatest threat to connection may not be technology itself.' Amid worries about children's relationship to tech, the solution is often spending more time talking openly with each other We have become obsessed with the idea that screens are destroying human connection. The evidence seems to be everywhere. Each week headlines warn of teenagers addicted to phones, a loneliness epidemic and the dangers of AI . The release of The Social Reckoning has leads us to ask, "How bad those guys at Meta?" and then ultimately wonder, " if I still use Instagram?"
Traditional two-parent families vanish from big American cities as 'marriage deserts' expand
A new Institute for Family Studies report shows traditional two-parent families vanishing from large US cities, exposing a 70-point national divide.
Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong
Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic. Long before the storm of AI struck Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation was making preparations. Wikipedians battened down the hatches and made confident-sounding predictions that it would break and wash over them. Large language models might even improve Wikipedia, it was said, automating more of the housekeeping--formatting, sources, citations, missing links--and so freeing up humans to do creative work. It was not so simple. In 2019, then-Wikimedia Foundation head Katherine Maher wrote an op-ed in The New York Times under the headline " Without Humans, A.I. Can Wreak Havoc ." "Too often," she wrote, "artificial intelligence is presented as an all-powerful solution to our problems, a scalable replacement for people."
The New Campaign Strategy: Don't Debate
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US soldiers can't be protected from all bioweapons, Army admits amid troubling surge in threats
The U.S. Army signed a new plan integrating biological warfare scenarios into combat training as artificial intelligence and biotechnology raise biological threat concerns.
Mint Mobile is turning 10, and its anniversary deal gives you 6 months of wireless for 10 a month
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