ZDNet

What a Linux root user can do - and 8 ways you should absolutely never use it

The root account must be used with caution. Run the wrong command, and disaster could strike. Instead, you should always use sudo. When I first started using Linux, there was no choice but to work ...
IEEE

Wireless Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication Using Over-the-Air Computation and Analog Coding

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an over-the-air (OTA)-based approach for distributed matrix-vector multiplications in the context of distributed machine learning (DML). Thanks to OTA computation, ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
ZDNet

Anthropic will start training Claude on user data - but you don't have to share yours

Anthropic updated its AI training policy. Users can now opt in to having their chats used for training. This deviates from Anthropic's previous stance. Anthropic has become a leading AI lab, with one ...
CNN

YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. If it’s wrong, you’ll have to prove it

YouTube will begin guessing users’ ages using artificial intelligence on Wednesday, as part of an effort to prevent kids from accessing inappropriate content online. It’s part of a broader push to ...
Forbes

Google Confirms It Has Been Hacked — What User Data Has Been Stolen?

Update, August 9, 2025: This story, originally published on August 7, has been updated with additional information from cybersecurity experts regarding the now confirmed hacking of Google. This ...
CNBC

OpenAI’s ChatGPT to hit 700 million weekly users, up 4x from last year

ChatGPT is set to hit 700 million weekly active users, with usage growing 4X year over year. OpenAI now counts five million paying business users, up from three million in June, as enterprises and ...
TechSpot

YouTube is using AI to verify user age based on viewing habits

In brief: YouTube is expanding its use of AI to determine if someone is 18 years old or older in the US. The platform is using machine learning to assess user behavior and estimate a person's age ...
Yahoo

Gen Z is worried about paying for mental health care. Is AI the answer?

Gen Z is worried about paying for mental health care. Is AI the answer? While many people face mental health struggles, Gen Z seems to be experiencing them in greater numbers. According to McKinsey & ...
Phys.org

Nine-year-olds in England sit timed multiplication test—but using times tables is about more than quick recall

What's seven times nine? Quick, you've got six seconds to answer. This June, over 600,000 children in England in year four, aged eight and nine, will be expected to answer questions like this. They ...
The Conversation

Nine‑year‑olds in England sit timed multiplication test – but using times tables is about more than quick recall

Camilla Gilmore receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. Lucy Cragg receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. Natasha Guy does not work for, consult, own ...