Future generations might believe that some of these Seedance 2.0 videos – ripped from a long-buried USB drive – represent the state of the art of mid-20th and early 21st century cinema. Maybe they won’t notice the strange movements, the lack of blinking, the stilted dialogue, and the fixation on hand-to-hand combat. I hope that’s […]
San Francisco, CA – NEAR launches Near.com, a new crypto wallet and consumer app that aims to make blockchain technology as easy as using a traditional financial app, while positioning itself at the intersection of crypto and artificial intelligence (AI). Polosukhin previously co-authored the paper that introduced the Transformer Model, the architecture that underpins modern
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The US IRS lost around 40% of its IT staff during the 2025 DOGE “restructuring”. Top-level tech leadership declined by nearly 80% during shake-up Workforce reductions have increased pressure on modernization and threatened timely processing of tax returns The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has revealed the extent of the disruption it experienced in 2025,
NEWYou can now listen to PK Press Club articles! The United States women’s ice hockey team, fresh off a gold medal victory over Canada at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday. “We are sincerely grateful for the invitation to our gold
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Queen Camilla offers “grace, dignity” to Madame Gisèle Pelicot Queen Camilla welcomed one of Europe’s bravest women, Madame Gisèle Pelicot, to Clarence House on Monday. Pelicot, the 73-year-old French survivor whose courage during France’s largest rape trial resonated around the world. She was awarded France’s highest honor, the Legion of Honor, in 2025, and became
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The seemingly daily disruption of business models by advances in artificial intelligence continued Monday, sending stock market averages and cryptocurrency prices tumbling. Today’s victim (in addition to the usual victims) was IBM after Anthropic said Claude’s code could automate COBOL modernization. “COBOL [Common Business-Oriented Language] is everywhere,” Anthropic said. “It processes approximately 95% of ATM
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Lenovo warned its partners about price increases on certain products in March Price hikes are a result of the current RAM crisis Lenovo is another company hit by the RAM crisis in 2026 The RAM crisis is spiraling out of control, with several hardware manufacturers, companies and retailers forced to implement price hikes – and
PromptSpy malware uses Gemini to automate its persistence Malware blocks deletion via AI-guided interface control Gemini interprets screen data and returns actionable gestures Security experts have revealed new findings about PromptSpy, an Android malware whose code contains a predefined prompt and hard-coded AI configuration and cannot be changed at runtime. The malware uses Google’s Gemini
Several Russia-linked crypto exchanges continue to allow transactions linked to sanctioned entities, according to a report released Friday by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The report describes how some platforms allow users to convert rubles into cryptocurrencies, transfer funds across borders outside of traditional banking channels, and cash out through foreign brokers or exchanges. Elliptic said
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The Instagram app icon is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. — Reuters Nearly one in five users ages 13 to 15 told Meta they saw “nudity or sexual images on Instagram” that they didn’t want to see, according to a court filing. The document, made public Friday as part
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