56 minutes ago Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months’ severance

Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the company floated a new offer late on October 16 of a nine-month severance package to anybody who quit immediately. Employees had four hours to decide whether they wanted to take the deal. In […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 hours ago Aw! Watch Derek Hough & Wife Hayley Erbert Dance Together A Year After Her Health Scare

Derek Hough and his wife Hayley Erbert are back on the dance floor! Nearly a year after the Dancing With The Stars alum underwent a cranial surgery to treat a “life-threatening” hematoma, she’s made her return to the stage! And Derek was right there with her! On Tuesday’s episode of the dance competition show, the [...] Read More... The post Aw! Watch Derek Hough & Wife Hayley Erbert Dance Together A Year After Her Health Scare appeared first on Perez Hilton.

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3 hours ago Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI’s Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU’s lead privacy regulator, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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4 hours ago Los Angeles Clippers’ star out indefinitely with right knee inflammation: Report

Los Angeles Clippers’ star out indefinitely with right knee inflammation: Report  OregonLive

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4 hours ago Behind Nigeria’s Fuel Tanker Explosion, a Fatal Quest for Cheap Gasoline

More than 160 people died when an overturned fuel tanker in northern Nigeria exploded. Witnesses and relatives of victims said poverty had driven most to try to collect the spilled gas.

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5 hours ago Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products

Missing logs could make it more difficult to identify unauthorized access to the customers' networks during that two-week window. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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5 hours ago Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’

This week, OpenAI quietly published a statement on its website pledging not to use its patents offensively. Asserting its commitment to the principles of “broad access” and “collaboration,” OpenAI said that it would only use its patents in a way that supports innovation. “We pledge to only use our patents defensively, so long as a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 hours ago Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft

One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, is psyched about AI, but points out that it hasn't cured cancer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 hours ago Washington D.C.'s 'Right To Charge' Bill Is A Huge Boost For EVs At Apartments

Washington D.C.'s 'Right To Charge' Bill Is A Huge Boost For EVs At Apartments  InsideEVs

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