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Court documents show TikTok employees were frustrated with how executives responded to their concerns about risks to children. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. TikTok was repeatedly warned by employees about the risks the social media platform posed to children, according to court records obtained NPR. The documents say employees were frustrated with how executives responded to their.

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Last week over 200 packages of graded trading cards being shipped back to their owners were stolen from a Fedex truck parked outside the headquarters of Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) in Santa Ana, California, according to a report by The Athletic. PSA is one of the largest third-party sports and hobby card grading companies in the world and it reported to the Santa Ana Police Department that the majority of.

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Spotify says it has removed more than 50 million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. That's according to an announcement on Tuesday, which says Spotify has also made changes to its recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artists. "Our editors hold the same standard and don't program content identified as slop or spam," Spotify says. "Since we made these changes,.

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Reliable Robotics extended its Series D round with $115 million in equity and $25 million in debt. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Reliable Robotics has been working for nearly a decade to commercialize autonomous flying technology that can be installed on existing aircraft. Now, with a $115 million funding boost, the Mountain View, California-based startup has a.

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TikTok was repeatedly warned by its own staffers about risks its platform posed to child safety, according to court records obtained by NPR. The publication reports that employees were frustrated over TikTok executives failing to appropriately act on concerns they raised, including minors bypassing age-restricted content, and appearing in "transactional sexual content" the company could financially benefit from. The previously unreported depositions of TikTok staffers were filed in federal court.

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The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop purchasing services and products developed by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and remove them from government IT systems over national security concerns.