Microsoft Made a Bing for AI Agents A suite of web APIs built for AI agents that helps them scour the web faster for search results is already being used by Copilot, ChatGPT and "many others." Corinne Reichert Senior Editor Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to California in 2019. She holds degrees in law and communications, and currently writes...

Conduent data breach grows, affecting at least 25M people The spillover from a ransomware attack on one of the largest government contractors in the United States keeps getting bigger: more than 25 million people have now had personal data stolen in the hack. Conduent provides printing, mailroom services, and document and payment processing services for state government benefit operations,...

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat MagawaReutersThe statue of Magawa is made from local stone A famous mine-clearing rat, who was awarded a gold medal for his heroism, has been commemorated with the world's first statue dedicated to a landmine-detecting rat. Magawa, who lived to eight years old, sniffed out over 100 landmines and other explosives in Cambodia during his...

Israel put on UN sexual violence in warzones blacklist for first timeGetty ImagesIsraeli guards were caught on CCTV appearing to sexually abuse a detainee from Gaza at the Sde Teiman detention facility (pictured)Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time.A report by the office of Secretary General António Guterres said the UN...

Automatic tax filing is coming, but the government's plan still misses the markDue to the complexity of Canada's taxation system, the room to expand automatic filing is structurally tiny. Photo by Issarawat Tattong/Getty ImagesArticle contentYou might expect a tax professional like myself to defend the annual ritual of filing tax returns, but I don’t because it has become a necessary evil that...