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ABC demands FCC drop its ‘punitive’ early license renewal of its stations

ABC filed its formal opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's effort to force it to submit to an early renewal of its broadcast station licenses, calling it an effort to chill the speech of broadcasters across the country. In a new filing with the FCC, ABC charges that the agency's willingness to pursue the early renewal of eight of its licenses far before they expire is "extraordinary and unprecedented." The company alleges the FCC "has spent the last 18 months searching for some p

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DZone

Your AI Agent Shipped an Answer. But Did It Earn the Right To?

There was a time when evaluating an AI system meant running a test set, computing an accuracy score, and calling it done. That was good enough when models answered questions in isolation. It is not good enough anymore. Agentic AI systems do not just answer questions. They retrieve documents, plan multi-step actions, call external tools, and synthesize responses that drive real decisions. Each of those steps can go wrong. And when they do, a single accuracy score tells you almost nothing about wh

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BleepingComputer

Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases

Google says artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of security vulnerabilities it can find and fix in Chrome, with more than 1,000 security bugs patched across the browser's two most recent releases as it expands its use of AI. [...]

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Krebs on Security

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

How Yahoo enhances search retargeting using Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we demonstrate how Yahoo implemented Amazon Bedrock to enhance their Search Retargeting (SRT) capabilities in the Yahoo DSP ad tech suite. SRT is a core audience targeting solution that helps advertisers reach users based on their historical search behavior, bridging search intent with display, video, and native advertising. Beyond targeting keywords entered on Yahoo Search, SRT uses AI to identify and engage users who demonstrate intent through search activity both on Yahoo and ac

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