Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein Def Con, one of the largest and longest-running hacking conferences in the world, announced on Wednesday that three people linked to Jeffrey Epstein are no longer allowed to attend.   The conference justified adding Pablos Holman, Vincenzo Iozzo, and Joichi Ito to its public list of banned individuals, citing the three as...

5 European nations say Alexei Navalny was poisoned and blame the Kremlin FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks to the media in front of security officers standing guard at the Foundation for Fighting Corruption office in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019....

Anthropic Expands Claude's Free Tier With More FeaturesNow that OpenAI has added ads to its free and low-cost ChatGPT plans, its competition is having a "field day," so to speak. Anthropic hit back with Super Bowl ads criticizing the move and saying its Claude service would stay ad-free. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded by saying OpenAI intended to avoid putting its best features behind a...

An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax The war on California’s proposed ‘Billionaire’s Tax’ is getting weird. This week, amid ongoing rancor from tech elites over the much maligned bill, it became apparent that someone was planning a so-called “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco. A website advertising the event popped up...

Here’s how Roblox’s age checks work A month after introducing mandatory facial verification for access to chats on its platform, Roblox says 45% of its daily active users have undergone age checks as of January 31. Roblox’s launch of age checks followed a wave of lawsuits over child safety, including ones from the attorneys general of Texas, Kentucky, and Louisiana. The lawsuits...