Lucas Ropek
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Here’s Why UFOs Are Back in the News
UFOs are back in the news this week with the release of a long-awaited Pentagon report that was designed to address public interest in the topic. UFOs (or, rather, UAP, as they’re now known), were injected back into the public consciousness last year thanks largely to a former high-ranking intelligence official, David Grusch, who, after…
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Tech Billionaire Tries to Ease Fears of Hawaii Takeover by Donating $150 Million to Hospitals
Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $US100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. He’s been quite cagey about…
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OpenAI Accuses the New York Times of ‘Hacking’ ChatGPT
The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement and claims that the influential tech startup used its journalistic material to train its chatbot, ChatGPT, without paying the proper licensing fees. But Sam Altman’s company is fighting back against these accusations with some accusations of its own. This week, OpenAI claimed that the…
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Apple Updates iMessage With a New ‘Post-Quantum’ Encryption Protocol
Apple has rolled out an update to iMessage encryption, the likes of which includes post-quantum protections that the company calls the “most significant cryptographic security upgrade” in the messenger’s history. In a blog post published Wednesday, Apple announced the arrival of PQ3, a new encryption protocol designed to seriously upgrade the messenger’s security. Since its…