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

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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