Meta has chosen Robert Fergus to lead its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, according to Bloomberg. Fergus had been working at Google DeepMind as a research director for nearly five years, per his LinkedIn. Prior to Google, he worked as a researcher scientist at Meta. Meta’s FAIR, which has been around since 2013, has faced […]
A major conservation charity linked to Prince Harry has admitted that human rights abuses were committed by its rangers in Congo-Brazzaville, following an independent review into allegations made by members of the Baka community against African Parks rangers. In a report published last year by the British newspaper the Mail on Sunday, community members accused […]
Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being extorted by someone who said the data was not destroyed. PowerSchool, which provides its K-12 software to thousands of schools to support 60 million […]
Even before his name was announced from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica, the crowds below were chanting “Viva il Papa” – Long live the Pope. Robert Prevost, 69, will be the 267th occupant of the throne of St Peter and he will be known as Leo XIV. He will be the first American to […]
China’s Geely Auto wants to take its luxury EV unit Zeekr off the New York Stock Exchange one year after the company’s debut, per Zeekr filings. The take-private offer comes as the Trump administration explores kicking Chinese companies off American stock exchanges, part of a broader trade war that includes what has become a tariff […]
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Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome. The tech giant is going to start using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), on desktop to protect users against online scams. It’s also launching new AI-powered warnings for Chrome on Android to help users be […]
As the cardinals vote for the next leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, they will be facing Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel, a powerful work that may appear to be watching over the solemn, weighy occasion. Of the Sistine Chapel, Pope John Paul II once wrote, “everything is conducive to an awareness […]
Elon Musk’s Starlink has received anticipated state approval in India, opening the door to enter the world’s second-biggest internet market after China — over three years after SpaceX’s previous attempt to launch its satellite-based broadband in the country eventually failed. On Wednesday, the Indian Department of Telecommunications gave its nod to Starlink to start working toward […]
What to know about current mortgage rates: Mortgage rates were mixed yesterday, with fixed-rate loans seeing lower average rates and adjustable-rate loans moving higher. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage ticked down to 6.932%, a decrease of 0.036 percentage points. The rate on a 30-year fixed-rate refinance loan averaged 6.974%. Freddie Mac’s benchmark […]