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[ak-ses] / ˈæk sɛs /


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Unauthorized access is illegal, even if employees don’t disclose tax information outside the government, and it can be punished through criminal prosecution or employee discipline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The 19-year-old Cardiff University student said she believes if she'd had access to AI during her eating disorder, it would have had a "terrible impact".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Visit slate.com/amicusplus and use the promo code AMICUS50 to receive the discount AND get access wherever you listen.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

Fishermen fear expanded industrial operations will restrict access to close-in fishing grounds, pushing them into riskier waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The authorities wouldn’t permit him access to a telephone, however.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Harvey said it accesses closed models through APIs provided by model providers and authorized cloud providers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

So, if you wanted to exclude Netflix, you’d have to know all the domains it accesses to get it to work properly, which isn’t always practical.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

The government said the taskforce will advise on ways to make the tech sector more representative and "ensure the UK accesses the full talent pool, market opportunities, and innovation capacity needed for economic growth".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

“For us, it accesses a whole new market and really drives a tremendous amount of new reach that we weren’t servicing before,” said Murdoch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

To all appearances equally removed from effeminateness and brutality, he was subject, nevertheless, to accesses of both.

From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer

The platform, however, argued it is a "generic male voice" whose perceived similarity to Tsuda's is subjective at best, according to court records accessed by AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The platform however argues it is a "generic male voice" whose perceived similarity to Tsuda's is subjective at best, according to court records accessed by AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The AI agents accessed the websites belonging to the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission and engaged in activity that OpenAI described as “misaligned.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The mother of a teenage boy who died in hospital has said she is "deeply concerned and hurt" after learning his medical records may have been accessed inappropriately for years after his death.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Then the big beach, accessed by another wooden staircase.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

Earlier this year, he was acquitted in a second trial of 241 counts of illegally accessing email accounts belonging to a number of sports bodies in Portugal, including Benfica.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

OpenAI apologized Monday for not properly responding to the Australia incident, which involved its AI models accessing government websites without authorization.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

The legislation “puts an end,” he said, “to this unfair practice and helps ensure local residents, seniors, students and families can continue accessing the public courses their communities support.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

While most of the activity the company has reviewed so far involved “routine research tasks, such as accessing public web content to answer questions, we realize anyone impacted takes this seriously and we do too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Kids were now accessing television programming on computers—including phones, the Internet, and other gadgets.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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