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The Download: AI and coding, and Waymo’s aggressive driverless cars

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Amazon’s new agents can reportedly code for days at a time They remember previous sessions and continuously learn from a company’s codebase. (VentureBeat)+ AWS says it’s aware of the pitfalls of handing over control to AI. (The Register)+ The […]

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Italy antitrust agency fines Apple $116 million for abusing dominance with privacy feature

ROME — Italy’s antitrust authority fined Apple 98.6 million euros ($116 million) on Monday after determining that operating one of its privacy features restricted App Store competition. Apple abused its dominant position with its App Tracking Transparency policy, which forces apps to obtain permission before collecting data to target users with personalized ads, the authority […]

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WHO issues guidance to address drastic global health financing cuts

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released new guidance for countries on ways to counter the immediate and long-term effects of sudden and severe cuts to external funding, which are disrupting the delivery of essential health services in many countries. The new guidance, called “Responding to the health financing emergency: immediate measures and longer-term shifts”, […]

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White House , NATO both want Europe to shoulder more responsibility for defense, alliance official s

There’s not much light between NATO’s ongoing efforts to prod its members to increase their defense spending and the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy, which envisions an American focus on the Western Hemisphere over other regions, Benedetta Berti, the secretary general of NATO’s parliamentary assembly, said Wednesday. Her office serves as a link […]

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New South Wales Premier Pushes More Gun Control After Bondi Beach Attack

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns pushed for more stringent gun control after two terrorists killed 15 innocents on Sydney’s Bondi Beach Sunday evening. FOX News published a video of Minns responding to a reporter who asked if gun control could be made more stringent. Minns said, “The short answer is ‘yes.’” He continued, “It does […]