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In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software products and operating systems, was found to have been implanted with a backdoor.

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Baltimore County Police arrested the former athletic director of Pikesville High School on Thursday, alleging he used an AI voice clone to impersonate the school’s principal, leading the public to believe Principal Eric Eiswert had made racist and antisemitic comments, according to

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President Joe Biden signed the TikTok bill into law on Wednesday morning, officially starting the 270-day clock for TikTok’s owner, China-based Bytedance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in American app stores.

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The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18.

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Elon Musk continues to never stop being a joke. From his deposition to where he admits that his tweets probably hurt the value of Twitter to him finally admitting that he roleplays as a toddler on his burner account. Check out this week’s big stories in tech.

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In an agreement confirmed earlier today, Japan will tap one of its astronauts to join an upcoming NASA Artemis mission to the Moon. Should it happen, that would make the unnamed Japanese astronaut the first first non-American astronaut to land on the lunar surface.

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President Joe Biden is considering a request that the U.S. stop its legal proceedings against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who’s currently fighting extradition to the U.S. where he faces 18 federal charges related to his publication of secret military documents.

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Elon Musk is completely obsessed with illegal immigration—something that’s not exactly a surprise, given the fact that he’s both a Republican and one of the we