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View More NewsIn brief Hackers exploited a compromised third-party vendor to steal about $3 million from a handful of Polymarket users. Polymarket says the issue is fixed and affected users will be fully reimbursed. It marks the platform’s second security incident in two months. One of Polymarket’s third-party vendors suffered a hack Thursday, the prediction market said, leaving its website vulnerable to an exploit that analysts said led to millions of dollars lost for users of the platform.Polymarket declined comment when reached by Decrypt, and did not say publicly which of its vendors was compromised. But the attack allowed hackers to inject…
In brief California launched the country’s first public dashboard to monitor potential AI-related job losses. The move follows repeated warnings from AI leaders that automation could reshape the labor market. State officials say they have not found evidence of widespread AI-driven layoffs, though some highly AI-exposed workers are showing early signs of displacement. Since the launch of ChatGPT, AI developers have warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate millions of jobs. California is now trying to determine whether those predictions are beginning to play out.On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the launch of what the state calls the nation’s first…
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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a piece originally published in Dutch in de Volkskrant.Here is a trivia question: which continent suffers the most heat-related deaths per capita? By a wide margin, the dubious prize goes to… Europe. In the summer of 2022 alone, more than 61,000 Europeans died as a result of the heat.In case you feel geographically confused: no, the equator does not run through Brussels. Thanks to its northern latitude, Europe in fact endures fewer heat days than almost any other inhabited region on Earth. How, then, can it hold the record for heat mortality? Part…
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