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California now has some of the strictest laws on election deepfakes

Hackers are demanding $6 million in bitcoin from the operator of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for documents they stole during a cyberattack last month

Scientists have moved about 300 endangered sea corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration

Some Brazilian users have regained access to X despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court

The hidden figures of the space race have been recognized with Congress’ highest honor at a medal ceremony

Opponents of offshore wind around the U.S. are pelting the projects with lawsuits, seeking to cancel them or tie them up for years in costly litigation

FBI Director Chris Wray says the FBI has disrupted a group of hackers working at the direction of the Chinese government who targeted universities, government agencies and other organizations

Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy

Deb Schmill, founder and president of the Becca Schmill Foundation, weighs in on Instagram’s new features and how it's “not enough” to protect children.

Qualcomm lost its bid to get a European Union antitrust penalty thrown out after a top court largely rebuffed the technology company’s arguments in the case involving cellphone chipsets

Government scientists and artificial intelligence experts from at least nine countries and the European Union will meet in San Francisco after the U.S. elections to coordinate on safely developing AI technology and averting its dangers

Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of the country

Israel's defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest

Australian police say they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed three landmark bills Tuesday to crack down on political deepfakes ahead of the 2024 election

Thousands of pagers used members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people and wounding several thousand, officials said

Fired whistleblower says Titan submersible tragedy may have been prevented had safety agency investigated his complaint

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Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of millitant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary num...

California's governor has signed legislation to protect Hollywood actors and performers against unauthorized use of artificial intelligence, such as creating their digital clones without their consent

Google says it will halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns

SpaceX faces $633,000 in fines for alleged safety violations during two Florida launches last year

Cyprus has approved a massive undersea electricity cable project to link its grid with Greece's

Meta’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, on what parents need to know about the app’s new features.

Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded near simultaneously in parts of Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people — including members of the militant group Hezbollah and a young girl

Dozens injured across Lebanon after handheld pagers reportedly explode, Lebanese state media and security officials say

Former operations chief of Titan sub testifies company goal was money and there was "very little in the way of science"

Instagram is introducing separate teen accounts for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives

Shares of Intel are surging before the opening bell after the chipmaker said its foundry business would make some custom artificial intelligence chips for Amazon Web Services as it attempts to reinvigorate its business

Donald Trump should have the opportunity starting Thursday to sell his shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the Truth Social platform

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation that would prohibit political campaigns and outside political groups from using artificial intelligence to misrepresent the views of their rivals by pretending to be them

Officials say protected green and loggerhead turtles are making a big comeback on the beaches of two British military bases in Cyprus, with the number of nests surpassing last year’s record count by nearly 25%

Meta is banning Russia state media organization from its social media company platforms, alleging that the outlets used deceptive tactics to amplify Moscow’s propaganda

A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that the tragedy could have been prevented if a federal safety agency had investigated his complaint

As Election Day draws nearer, social media posts by X owner Elon Musk are raising concerns that he will use his immense platform to question the legitimacy of the vote in the U.S. presidential election and perhaps call for resistance if Republican nomi...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has launched his family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, with an interview on the X social media platform

Elon Musk has deleted a post on his social media platform X in which he said “no one is even trying to assassinate” President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the wake of another apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump

Amazon is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week starting next year, reverting to its pre-pandemic policy

The United States is placing new sanctions on a spyware firm and its executives after its tools were used to spy on journalists, dissidents and public officials around the world

A new study offers the first detailed map of the human brain throughout and after pregnancy

Several little-known pro-Trump candidates are running for Congress in key races as independents, and an Associated Press review finds they were recruited and backed by the same shadowy group

An influential French member of the European Union’s powerful executive branch has resigned

The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic says he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it for a journey several years earlier

TikTok faced off with the U.S. government in federal court on Monday, arguing a law that could ban the platform in a few short months was unconstitutional

A billionaire spacewalker is back on Earth

Tech billionaire and 3 others return to Earth after first private spacewalk

Being a venture capitalist carries a lot of prestige in Silicon Valley

The rocket was built by the country's Revolutionary Guard, state-run media says.

Iran says it has successfully sent a satellite into space