No, China hasn’t made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it’s made it much more expensive for companies to do so

China’s State Council has published a state media report through its Information Office concerning a recent legal case about a worker whose role was (at least partially) replaced by AI. The worker, identified by their surname Zhou, was hired for a tech role in quality assurance, before their employer began using AI to cover some…

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‘A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017’: Time to update your kernel

Gaming on Linux has never been better—but that doesn’t mean your distros are free from security threats. Case in point is a severe vulnerability nicknamed ‘Copy Fail,’ which allows a local user to dig into the guts of the OS and give themselves root privileges merely by writing four bytes of controlled data into the…

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