Delaware lawsuit over prison internet protest settled

Delaware lawsuit over prison internet protest settled

Delaware prisoner details failed attempt to boycott internet David Holloman describes why he sought to boycott internet-connected tablets behind bars in Delaware. Xerxes Wilson, Wochit A Delaware inmate who said he was stripped of his prison job and relocated to a harsher environment after he threatened to organize a protest over excessive prisoner internet fees, …

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Wenjing Lou named fellow of Association for Computing Machinery | Virginia Tech News

Wenjing Lou named fellow of Association for Computing Machinery | Virginia Tech News

Wenjing Lou, the W.C. English Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.  Established in 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery is a nonprofit professional membership organization, reporting nearly 110,000 student and professional members as of 2022. Its fellows program recognizes the top 1 percent …

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Chinese citizen charged with stealing AI technology from Google: DOJ

Chinese citizen charged with stealing AI technology from Google: DOJ

The alleged theft involved the building blocks of Google’s supercomputing data centers, which develop applications to generate responses to tasks or questions. WASHINGTON – A Chinese citizen was charged with stealing trade secrets from Google about artificial intelligence technology, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday. Linwei Ding, who is also known as Leon Ding, was …

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Learn the sneaky ways scammers work

Learn the sneaky ways scammers work

Hillary Stalker  |  Special to Nashville Tennessean With the rise of artificial intelligence, scammers have more creative ways than ever to lure people into fraudulently giving them money. With data pointing to rising numbers in scams of all shapes and sizes, Americans are losing billions of dollars in alarming rates year over year. Most people …

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Consumers lose money in Venmo, Zelle, PayPal app scams

Consumers lose money in Venmo, Zelle, PayPal app scams

Using Zelle, Cash App and Venmo apps? Here’s how to protect yourself. Mobile payment apps like Venmo, Zelle and PayPal are becoming more popular in today’s tech world, but they’re also becoming an target for scammers. Anastasiia Riddle, USA TODAY Consumers often view their money in the bank as being safe, but they’re increasingly losing …

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Vandalism of fiber optic cables leads to Indio internet outage

Vandalism of fiber optic cables leads to Indio internet outage

Spectrum internet and phone service customers in the eastern Coachella Valley experienced service interruptions Friday after fiber optic lines were cut in what Indio police believe was vandalism. Spectrum said all of its affected lines had been repaired by the evening. Indio Police spokesperson Ben Guitron said staff from Frontier Communications notified the department at …

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