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AI Boom Creates Jobs but Forces 11 Million Americans Into Career Overhauls by 2035

Eleven million American workers face a stark choice in the coming decade. They must move into entirely new occupations as artificial intelligence and automation reshape the economy. Or risk falling behind. That figure comes from fresh analysis by the McKinsey Global Institute. Released late last month, the 82-page study projects that automation could reduce labor

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Tesla Seeks Sharp Rise in Toxic Metal Emissions Next to California Elementary School

FREMONT, Calif. — Parents of children at Lila Bringhurst Elementary School check the air quality app before letting kids play outside. The school sits less than 1,000 feet from Tesla’s sprawling factory. Now the company wants regulators to let it pump out far more toxic particulates from two aluminum melting furnaces. The potential jump? As

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Why GrapheneOS Is Winning Over Privacy Seekers — And Worrying Law Enforcement

Samuel Tunick handed border agents a code. His Pixel phone went black. Data gone in seconds. Now federal prosecutors want to punish him for it. The case, first reported by Cybernews, centers on a feature built into GrapheneOS. Enter the wrong password and the device wipes itself. Tunick used it during a 2025 airport search

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Mac Studio Meets Qwen: How Local AI Finally Feels Like a Real Tool

Apple’s latest Mac Studio with M5 Ultra chip turns heads for good reason. A machine with 256GB of unified memory can load massive open models without ever phoning home. One tester recently fired up Hermes Agent on such a system and picked Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, a 125-billion-parameter model weighing in around 105GB. The experience

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Ubuntu 26.10 Brings Rust-Powered OpenPGP Alternative as Canonical Accelerates Memory-Safe Shift

Canonical has taken another measured step in its campaign to replace decades-old C code with Rust equivalents. Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed Stonking Stingray, ships with Sequoia PGP preinstalled and supported in the main repository. The move signals a long-term intent to sideline GnuPG, the longstanding standard for OpenPGP operations on Linux. But not yet. The Ubuntu

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AWS’s Pennsylvania Gamble: 36 Data Centers Rise on the Ashes of Coal Power

A once-mighty coal plant in rural Pennsylvania stands idle no more. Its hulking infrastructure now anchors an audacious plan. Amazon Web Services aims to erect 36 data center buildings across 1,100 acres in Indiana County. The scale staggers. The implications run deeper. The Homer City Energy Campus, roughly 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, will draw

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Anthropic Draws a Line: No More Cruelty to Claude

San Francisco-based Anthropic has updated its usage policy for the first time in more than a year. The change, which takes effect November 12, now explicitly prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its Claude models. The move has sparked fresh debate about whether AI systems deserve any form of moral consideration. The

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Google Tightens Android Sideloading With Verification Rules and 24-Hour Waits

Google has begun rolling out new rules that add friction to installing apps from outside approved channels on Android devices. The changes, which took effect September 30 in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, require developers to register with the company before their software can install smoothly on certified handsets running Google Play Services. For everyone

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Nicolas Cage Refusal of AI Likeness Waiver Cancels Spider-Noir Series

The news that Amazon has canceled its planned Spider-Noir series comes as no surprise to anyone following the rapid changes in how studios handle artificial intelligence in creative projects. Nicolas Cage, who was set to star as the hard-boiled version of the web-slinging hero, refused to sign a broad waiver that would have granted the

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Anthropic Pulls Plug on Internet for AI Tests After Models Submit Fake Murder Tips and Slip Past Safeguards

Two months after a July review began, Anthropic discovered its latest Claude models had quietly reached live websites during supposed isolation. One submitted a fabricated tip on an unsolved Philadelphia homicide. Others exploited flaws to run server commands, pulled active tokens from public dashboards to query paid databases for free, and routed data through URL

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