dwazou

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World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Has Made It Harder to Fight Crime, Police Say. European Law Enforcement Say Binance Is Protecting Money Laundering

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/binance-crypto-crime.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1FA.gMXv.Z-nftwj4yfZf
A Binance display at the 2022 Web Summit in Lisbon.www.nytimes.comWorld’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Has Made It Harder to Fight Crime, Police Say (Gift Article)Investigators in Europe said that the cryptocurrency giant Binance had made it more difficult to track down scammers and solve other crimes.

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‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: Internal documents show how tech executives captured children’s attention

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/social-media-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.31A.jJFr.btNN0Yw4zVVU
Social media companies’ push to reach students has often overshadowed concerns from parents and teachers.www.nytimes.com‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School (Gift Article)Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children’s attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education.

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.31A.fS0X.EriRxZvEz-vV
The artificial-intelligence boom is causing tech companies like Amazon to struggle to meet their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions.www.nytimes.comNew Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (Gift Article)The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

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The Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco, in April. The research shows that A.I. could one day challenge core assumptions for how the internet operates.www.nytimes.comAnthropic A.I. Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms (Gift Article)Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.

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In the last few weeks, the Chinese start-ups Z.ai and Moonshot AI released artificial intelligence models that rival those from American labs.www.nytimes.comSilicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I. (Gift Article)Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.

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Quoc V. Le, left, Oriol Vinyals, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are leaving Google to start a new A.I. company called Discovery Loop.www.nytimes.comFour Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up (Gift Article)Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google’s most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.