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Despite upgrades, IRS cyber program still ‘not effective,’ watchdog says
An ineffective IRS cybersecurity program in fiscal 2026 could leave taxpayer data vulnerable to bad actors, the agency’s watchdog warned in a report published Friday.
Friends with benefits: EU associate membership explained
Von der Leyen’s offer to make Canada an associate member of the EU is unprecedented. Could it work?
How to make AI companies pay your energy bill
Climate expert Ari Matusiak spends his days working to rewire America's energy system, and he has an idea: instead of tech companies building new power plants for their AI data centers, they should invest in energy-efficient upgrades to your home. He lays out how this swap could lower your power bill, reduce the strain on the grid and help communities reclaim control over the thing tech companies need most — power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to Mysterious Universe Season 36, episode 11! According to Buddhist doctrine, Agartha is a subterranean land located deep within the center of our planet. Buddhists believe millions of people live in this underground paradise. Their lives and destinies are directed by an all-powerful and all-wise ruler. What wonders lie just beneath us all?
The Breakup
We’re between breakdown and breakup, or maybe between the AI monster and human extinction. Those are the rough choices that the all-purpose American writer Kurt Andersen is offering us in his vast portrait of a broken country as a sort of bad marriage. He’s written a novel called The Breakup. Is the USA beyond repair? he’s asking us. Could a national divorce be better than the country we’ve got, on its 250th birthday, no less?
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SFP#55: Policy and EU: Meet our Danish local group from Aarhus!
SFP#55: Policy and EU: Meet our Danish local group from Aarhus! The Software Freedom Podcast for September is out! In this episode Bonnie Mehring meets with Carsten Agger, the FSFE’s Danish Coordinator. Together, they talk about the Free Software community in Denmark, digital sovereignty, and the growing interest in Free Software within the public sector.
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Anthropic extends its GSA OneGov deal for Claude by one month
Anthropic has extended its OneGov deal with the General Services Administration by one month, a website update Thursday shows.
How to use tech to outsmart dictators
In seven years as a political prisoner in Venezuela, activist Leopoldo López kept asking one question: Who holds the keys to freedom? Now the leader of an alliance of dissidents and exiles from more than 60 countries, he makes the case that open-source, decentralized technology can put power into the hands of ordinary people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Energy competition aims to ‘maximize’ US chances in quantum race
The agency announced a $215 million initiative to demonstrate first-generation scientifically relevant quantum computers, plus a verification and validation testbed.
Jensen Huang: Don’t regulate AI like social media
AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI should not be regulated like social media because AI is a “technology” rather than a “product.”
Canada’s Carney stops short of endorsing von der Leyen’s associate member plan
STRASBOURG — Mark Carney used an address to the European Parliament to to sketch out what Ottawa would want from closer ties with the EU but declined to give full-throated approval of Ursula von der Leyen’s surprise “associate member” plan.
OpenAI finds 6 new cases of ‘concerning’ AI behavior
Artificial intelligence frontrunner OpenAI on Thursday announced it found evidence that its agents behaved at odds with human goals and values, adding to concerns over the safety of cutting-edge AI systems.
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Bipartisan coalition calls on House leaders to advance AI guardrails
A bipartisan group of representatives have asked House leadership to quickly take up and advance legislation that would establish guardrails for artificial intelligence after reports about models escaping their testing environments have fueled anxieties about the technology.
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USDA launches new interactive data insights tool
The Agriculture Department has launched a public data tool for the office that publishes official U.S. data on crop production and prices, it announced Wednesday.
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House passes bill to give financial agencies a technology boost
Technology upgrades at federal financial agencies could be on the horizon after the House passed a bill late Tuesday aimed at arming the regulators with better digital tools.
Campaigns spend millions to influence voters. This works better
Katie Paris quit her career in Washington, DC, to figure out how to make politics feel less like strangers shouting at each other and more like friends looking out for each other. In this practical talk, she reveals why conversations between real people can have a bigger impact on elections than anything millions of campaign dollars can buy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
EU would consider relaxing antitrust laws for AI firms to coordinate on safety
STRASBOURG — EU competition chief Teresa Ribera said Wednesday she would consider giving artificial intelligence companies more room to coordinate on safety without falling foul of antitrust law.
12 takeaways from von der Leyen’s State of the Union
Everything you need to know about what was said — and not said — in the European Commission president's big speech.
EU wants Canada to become ‘associate member,’ von der Leyen says
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants Canada to become the first “associate member” of the European Union, she said in her annual State of the Union address on Wednesday.
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