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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers at Harvard University led the study, and it included nearly 58,000 adults in Japan who were followed for up to a year using a database of medical records from routine checkups. Researchers found that when people switched from being nondrinkers to drinkers during the study, they saw a drop in their "bad" cholesterol -- aka low-density lipoprotein cholesterol or LDL. Meanwhile, their "good" cholesterol -- aka high-density lipoprotein cholester
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Tesla recently lost nearly 50% of its $1.5 trillion market. JPMorgan analysts don't know another car company that lost so much value so quickly. Read more ›
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Tesla sales dropped 71% year over year in Australia in February, joining a number of recent countries with slumping Tesla sales. Read more ›
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Tesla owners liked their cars, but one decided to sell "as a protest against Elon Musk and his work at DOGE." Others fear further declines in values. Read more ›
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DOGE has been hit with nearly two dozen lawsuits since the start of President Donald Trump's second term. Read more ›
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Here's hoping Elon Musk won't have to personally fix President Trump's new EV anytime soon. Read more ›
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The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients. Read more ›
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Celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, and Rosie O'Donnell are among the stars who have left America and moved elsewhere due to politics. Read more ›
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Russian forces have entered Sudzha, a town about five miles from the border, as a temporary cease-fire deal hangs in the balance. Read more ›
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Customer foot traffic and market share have shifted away from Target and toward Costco as the retailers diverge in their defense of DEI, survey shows. Read more ›
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Pearl Whamond, a 55-year-old Canadian mom, said she's boycotting US brands and avoiding US travel over Trump's treatment of Canada. Read more ›
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Klarna insiders share how ahead of a potential IPO, the payments startup is cutting costs, streamlining roles, and embracing AI. Read more ›
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Elon Musk has faced "great difficulty" running his companies while trying to remake the US government. Some observers worry he's taken on too much. Read more ›
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"It's kind of cheaply built on the inside, but I love the performance," the Arizona Senator told reporters this week about his Tesla. Read more ›
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Ayo Edebiri criticized Elon Musk for triggering trolls to attack her on social media over a rumor she was cast in a "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. Read more ›
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For the first time, a majority of respondents in a CNN poll disapproved of President Donald Trump's handling of the economy. Read more ›
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Warren Buffett is being hailed on social media for dumping stocks and building a record $334 billion cash pile before the stock market tumbled. Read more ›
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The music streaming platform received criticism for keeping the show for as long as it did. Read more ›
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Michelle Obama spoke about one of her husband's habits that used to get on her nerves, during the premiere episode of her podcast, "IMO." Read more ›
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"The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented 'backdoor' that could be leveraged for attacks," writes BleepingComputer. "The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence." This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security,. Read more ›
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smooth wombat writes: In what can only be described as a no-brainer, Volkswagen has announced it will have once again have physical buttons in all its vehicles. As Andreas Mindt, design chief at the company said, removing buttons was "a mistake". "From the ID 2all onwards, we will have physical buttons for the five most important functions -- the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans... Read more ›
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In a policy paper, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with "superhuman" intelligence, also known as AGI. From a report: The paper, titled "Superintelligence Strategy," asserts that an aggressive bid by the U.S. to exclusively control superintelligent AI systems could prompt fierce retaliation... Read more ›
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As Christie's auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. "Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license," the letter complained. "These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment... Read more ›
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Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. ("Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to anything in the actual world...") Ideally if the students write the essays themselves, "some of them start to feel it. They begin to grasp that thinking well, and in an informed manner, really... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: AI excels at following instructions -- but it's not pushing the boundaries of knowledge, says Thomas Wolf. The chief science officer and cofounder of Hugging Face, an open-source AI company backed by Amazon and Nvidia, analyzed the limits of large language models. He wrote that the field produces "overly compliant helpers" rather than revolutionaries. Right now, AI isn't creating new knowledge, Wolf wrote. Instead,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used by major movie studios and sharing them online before the movies' scheduled release dates. According to a US Department of Justice press release, Steven Hale worked at the DVD company and allegedly stole "numerous 'pre-release' DVDs and Blu-rays" between February 2021... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports: Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from a former global policy director at the company. The complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team handling China... Read more ›
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Microsoft is ending support of its Remote Desktop app for Windows on May 27th. From a report: If you use the Remote Desktop app to connect to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, or Microsoft Dev Box machines then you'll have to transition to the Windows app instead. The new Windows app, which launched in September, includes multimonitor support, dynamic display resolutions, and easy access to cloud PCs and virtual desktops.... Read more ›
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"The early web was fun," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted Wednesday on X.com. "It was weird. It was community-driven. It's time to rebuild that. "Which is why Kevin Rose and I just bought back Digg." The amount of that purchase is "undisclosed," reports CNBC: The deal is backed by venture capital firms True Ventures, where Rose is a partner, and Ohanian's Seven Seven Six.... The company said in a release... Read more ›
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