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22 Chinese nationals sentenced to long prison terms in Zambia for multinational cybercrimes 06/07/2024 11:28pm • LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A Zambian court on Friday sentenced 22 Chinese nationals to long prison terms for cybercrimes that included internet fraud and online scams targeting Zambians and other people from Singapore, Peru and the United Arab Emirates. The Magistrates Court in the capital, Lusaka, sen Internet group sues Georgia to block law requiring sites to gather data on sellers 06/07/2024 04:26pm • An internet trade group is suing the state of Georgia to block a law requiring online classified sites to gather data on high-volume sellers who advertise online but collect payment in cash or some other offline method. NetChoice, which represents companies including Facebook parent Meta and Craigsl New York moves to ban 'addictive' social media feeds for kids 06/07/2024 03:33pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York state Legislature on Friday passed a bill that would allow parents to block their kids from getting social media posts suggested by a platform's algorithm — a regulation that tries to curtail feeds that critics argue are addicting to children. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 06/06/2024 08:00pm • Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics are disrupting virtually every industry. In the past year, the world has gotten a firsthand look at remarkable advances in AI technology, including OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot, GitHub's Copilot AI code generation software and Google's Gemini AI model. AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text 06/06/2024 09:31am • Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online. A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly availa Washington man sentenced for 20 'swatting' calls of false threats in US, Canada 06/05/2024 10:16pm • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man who made 20 false reports of bombs and shootings around the U.S. and in Canada, prompting real emergency responses, has been sentenced to three years in prison, U.S. authorities said. Ashton Connor Garcia, 21, of Bremerton, was sentenced in U.S. Distric The Latest: Court adjourns for the day in Hunter Biden's gun trial 06/05/2024 09:29pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of Hunter Biden (all times local): Court adjourned for the day in Hunter Biden's gun trial, with testimony expected to resume Thursday morning. After the jurors were dismissed, Derek Hines told the judge the prosecution has six more witnesses after g Michigan man's court video about driving offense went viral. Now he's in trouble again. 06/05/2024 05:07pm • PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area man whose May court appearance on a driving offense went viral when he appeared by video from behind the wheel was arrested Wednesday for the same violation years earlier in a different community. The man was in a court near Ann Arbor for a follow-u Life as a teen without social media isn't easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline 06/05/2024 09:48am • WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — Kate Bulkeley's pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first. She watched the benefits pile up: She was getting excellent grades. She read lots of books. The family had lively conversations around the dinner table and gathered for movie nights on weekends. After crackdown on Hong Kong, overseas communities carry the torch to keep Tiananmen memories alive 06/05/2024 01:10am • HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China's history, was busy flying between the United States, Britain and Canada to give a series of talks. Each was aimed at speaking out for th In their own words: What young people wish they'd known about social media 06/05/2024 12:14am • It's dangerous. It's addictive. Get off your phone. Kids constantly hear about the downsides of social media from the adults in their lives, often in the form of dire warnings and commands. But these adults did not grow up with social media themselves. They didn't get a phone handed to them as tod Hundreds show up to a pool party in a quiet Brandywine neighborhood 06/04/2024 11:38pm • Summertime means time by the pool, but some local pool parties have been getting rowdy. One in Brandywine, Maryland, on Saturday night ended with authorities on the scene. Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Charles County Sheriff's officials responded to Inheritance Drive for reports of "an except 6 Elon Musk Investments That Are Good Bets Today 06/04/2024 08:00pm • Entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk has a unique, self-disciplined mindset about money. In short, he claims he doesn't want to dig into investors' cash unless he sets the table first. "I always invest my own money in the companies that I create," Musk has been quoted as saying. "I don't believe i New York considers regulating what children see in social media feeds 06/04/2024 06:58pm • New York lawmakers on Tuesday said they were finalizing legislation that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts curated by a platform's algorithm, a move to rein in feeds that critics argue keep young users glued to their screens. Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul an Spain proposes law to improve online safety for children, including virtual restraining orders 06/04/2024 10:16am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s government has proposed a law to protect children from online threats that includes virtual restraining orders for felons, a higher age for opening social media accounts and health screenings for teenagers to detect related emotional disorders. “The health, well