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A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday, April 18, to limit access to Americans' Social Security data for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) following concerns raised by unions about the billionaire's broad powers. The ruling by District Judge Ellen Hollander prohibits DOGE staff from accessing personal data, such as Social Security numbers, medical histories

Homepage > News > Business > The limits of smart contracts in real-world transactions Scalable blockchains, tokenization, and smart contracts are all in the headlines these days. With financial giants like Larry Fink loudly promoting the virtues of tokenization and organizations like the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) experimenting with digital ledger technology, it seems

Architecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in actual buildings, after all, is vastly different from what architects can imagine and design (often referred to as “paper architecture”). That imagination has long been supported and enabled by design technology, but the latest advancements in artificial intelligence have prompted

Skip to main content The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will require insurers on the Affordable Care Act exchanges to include substance abuse and mental health providers in their plans, among other things. The final rule, announced Monday, softens CMS' proposed limits to the number of plan options exchange insurers can offer, and abandons

Skip to main content MH Illustration/Getty Images Companies that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical products would have to significantly reduce employee and community exposure to the carcinogenic chemical under a proposed rule the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday. Ethylene oxide, or EtO, is a colorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment such as syringes

Microsoft is limiting how extensively people can converse with its Bing AI chatbot, following media coverage of the bot going off the rails during long exchanges. Bing Chat will now reply to up to five questions or statements in a row for each conversation, after which users will be prompted to start a new topic

In the 9 December 2022 issue, the Research Article “Competition-level code generation with AlphaCode” (Y. Li et al., p. 1092) and the accompanying Perspective,...

Business briefs from the Chinese media — Thursday December 29...