A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by late privacy and tech luminary Peter Eckersley, meant to guide AI’s evolution to safeguard humanity’s future (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by late privacy and tech luminary Peter Eckersley, meant to guide AI’s evolution to safeguard humanity’s future  —  Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encr…

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The SCO Lawsuit: Looking Back 20 Years Later

“On March 7, 2003, a struggling company called The SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM,” writes LWN.net, “claiming that the success of Linux was the result of a theft of SCO’s technology…”

Two decades later, “It is hard to overestimate how much t…

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Divorced Afghan women forced back to abusive ex-husbands

Abused for years by her ex-husband who broke all of her teeth, Marwa has retreated into hiding with her eight children after Taliban commanders tore up her divorce.Marwa was one of a small number of women who, under the previous US-backed government, …

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