Commissioners from four of Canada’s privacy watchdogs have found that OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws while developing and training early models of its large language model, ChatGPT. In a news conference on Wednesday morning, Philippe Dufresne, the privacy commissioner of Canada, was joined by his provincial counterparts from British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec to deliver…
Canadian rocket builders want Canada to stop hitching rides to space at the discretion of foreign providers, and the federal government has put a significant sum towards changing that. At the Canadian Space Launch Conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, the founders of three startups—event organizer NordSpace, Canada Rocket Company, and Reaction Dynamics—unpacked what sovereign space…
Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has published a handbook which unequivocally clarifies that her office exists not to protect Australian Jews from discrimination, but to stomp out criticism of the state of Israel. Reading by Tim Foley: Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has published a handbook which unequivocally clarifies that her office exists not to protect Australian…
Story at-a-glance The thrombogenic hypothesis asserts that blood clotting is the basic underlying pathological process that causes all heart disease When a blood clot forms on your artery wall, it will typically be covered over and broken down. A problem arises, however, when the blood clot is not fully eliminated and becomes a “vulnerable” point,…
Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter @AlexThomp / X screen shot) During Tuesday night’s California gubernatorial debate, hosted by CNN, Democrat Katie Porter squirmed when confronted by a question about a profanity-laced video of her berating a staffer that went viral last year, as well as her recent cutting an interview short and stomping off….
There’s a paradox in the way we talk about identity now: the language meant to “elevate” often narrows instead. For Christians, that narrowing misses something essential. The idea that every person bears the image of God isn’t a slogan — it’s a claim about irreducible dignity. It resists the liberal urge to sort people into…
Top tech firms once cultivated cachet with in-house chefs or office amenities like tennis courts and on-tap craft beer. These days, the mark of success for some appears to be bragging about outsized AI spending—and BetaKit wants to know whether your workplace is on board. TechCrunch’s Tim Fernholz wrote earlier this month that big token…
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Maximalists warn freezing 5.6M BTC risks instant sell-offs, while others say quantum threats leave no alternative. What to know: Bitcoin developers and analysts are fiercely debating a proposal to freeze about 5.6 million long-dormant coins to protect them from potential future quantum-computing attacks. Critics warn that freezing any coins would shatter Bitcoin’s promise of unconditional,…
Amazon, Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, and Microsoft — the so-called “Silicon Six” — avoided nearly $278 billion in US corporate taxes over the past decade, according to new analysis from the Fair Tax Foundation. That number deserves a moment of stillness. It is larger than the GDP of Finland. It is enough to fund NASA…
