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Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
16+ min ago (1012+ words) Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary LONDON -- Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary. The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed…...
Tines rolls out a governance layer for agents, copilots, and MCPs
31+ min ago (502+ words) Tines unveiled AI in Tines, a unified interaction layer for agents, copilots, and MCPs, enabling organizations to operationalize enterprise AI in a governed environment. While AI adoption is accelerating, the resulting value remains inconsistent. According to IDC, 88% of AI proof-of-concepts…...
At 25, Wikipedia Navigates a Quarter-Life Crisis in the Age of A.I.
39+ min ago (514+ words) I don't think that we've seen something like this happen in the last seven to eight years or so," Marshall Miller, senior director of product at the Wikimedia Foundation, told Observer. Launched on Jan. 15, 2001, Wikipedia turns 25 today. This milestone comes…...
Hackers Abuse Legitimate Cloud and CDN Platforms to Host Phishing Kits
45+ min ago (218+ words) Cybersecurity researchers have identified a troubling trend in which sophisticated threat actors are leveraging legitimate cloud and content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure from major technology providers, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS CloudFront, to host phishing kits while evading…...
PoC exploit for critical FortiSIEM vulnerability released (CVE-2025-64155)
58+ min ago (291+ words) This flaw targets the phMonitor service, the "nervous system" of the SIEM, allowing attackers to write arbitrary code into a file executed as the root user, gaining unauthenticated code execution," Scott Caveza, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, told Help…...
Wikipedia turns 25; founder Jimmy Wales says platform grew against all odds
59+ min ago (504+ words) New Delhi, Jan 15 (PTI) Wikipedia, billed to be the world's largest online information platform, whose millions of open source articles are powered by an army of "volunteer editors", turned 25 on Thursday, as it launched a year-long campaign to mark its…...
Wikimedia expands AI data deals with Amazon, Google, Meta and others as it turns 25
1+ hour, 8+ min ago (461+ words) New Delhi: As Wikipedia turned 25 on January 15, the Wikimedia Foundation said it has expanded paid licensing and data-access partnerships with major technology and AI companies through its Wikimedia Enterprise platform." Wikimedia has positioned the move as a way to manage…...
Wikipedia Turns 25: The First Post Was January 15th, 2001 | 94.5 The Buzz
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (146+ words) Having a big line of encyclopedias on your shelf would seem like a huge waste of space these days.But it used to be a thing. Happy 25th birthday to WIKIPEDIA!The first Wikipedia post was on January 15th, 2001, two days after…...
Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: ‘Are you dead?"
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (665+ words) It's called, simply, "Are You Dead?" It's simple and straightforward " essentially a 21st-century Chinese digital version of those American pendants with an alert button on them for senior citizens that gave birth to the famed TV commercial: "I've fallen, and…...
Grok blocked from undressing images in places where it's illegal, X says
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (288+ words) Elon Musk's X says its AI chatbot Grok won't be able to edit photos of real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal. The announcement followed a backlash over sexualized images of women and children, including bans…...