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Cursor AI users recently encountered an ironic AI failure when the platform's support bot falsely claimed a non-existent login restriction policy. Co-founder Michael Truell apologized for the issue, clarified that no such policy exists, and attributed the mishap to AI hallucination and a session management bug. The Register reports: Users of the Cursor editor, designed to generate and fix source code in response to user prompts, have sometimes been booted from the software when trying to use the app in mult
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The US and Ukraine struck a major deal granting American companies privileged access to key metals and minerals in Ukraine. Read more ›
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NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department. Read more ›
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President Trump on Wednesday dismissed concerns about bare store shelves as he spoke about his trade approach with China. Read more ›
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President Trump is defending his economic policies while urging Americans to "be patient" amid the tumult of markets and overall economy. Read more ›
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A Tim Cook-style CEO could take Tesla's core EV operations to new heights, similar to Apple's success after Steve Jobs died. Read more ›
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Trump administration’s friendliness towards crypto cleared the way for company to launch in America Read more ›
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services appeared to blame the existence of chemtrails on DARPA, saying he would do everything in his power to stop the emissions. Read more ›
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Three GOP senators voted for a resolution to terminate Trump's April 2 tariffs. It would have passed if not for some absences. Read more ›
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In his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory. Read more ›
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Over the past few years, what sounds like an episode of Black Mirror has been unfolding in real life: millions of people around the world have agreed to let metallic orbs scan their eyes in exchange for receiving blockchain-based ID and a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin. Beginning this week, Worldcoin (WLD) will be available in most […] Read more ›
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In a message to fans, Katy Perry said the internet's response to her Blue Origin space trip and tour performances has left her feeling "battered and bruised." Read more ›
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Some federal employees got emails in March reminding them not to wear clothing, like MAGA hats, that promotes a candidate. That policy is rescinded. Read more ›
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Dating abroad can be both wildly fun and frustratingly chaotic. Read more ›
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A US judge says Apple deliberately chose not to comply with an order requiring it to loosen App Store rules—and then tried to cover up its disobedience. Read more ›
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to know whether Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received any “promises or favors” from President Donald Trump in exchange for his “subservience” after dropping all plans to show customers the cost of tariffs. In a letter sent on Wednesday, Warren questions Bezos about the details of his conversation with Trump and […] Read more ›
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Eric Saw bought a 96-year-old ship with the dream of converting it into a hotel. Finding it a resting place and renovating it took him nearly 10 years. Read more ›
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A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg says the future of tech is heading away from screens to augmented reality and holograms. Read more ›
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At a high-profile event in San Francisco, World announced it is launching a series of Apple-like stores, as well as a partnership with dating giant Match Group. Read more ›
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Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some "straight-to-the-point wisdom" from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix. Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation, explaining how some buggy patches for their case-insensitive file and folder support were upstreamed into the Bcachefs kernel driver nearly two years ago: When I was discussing with the developer who did the implementation, I noted that... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan. The shopping site will display how much of an item's cost is derived from tariffs -- right next to the product's... Read more ›
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"A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it," announced the University of California, San Diego, "due to its previously unknown secondary function." "Researchers at the University of California San Diego used artificial intelligence to help both unravel this mystery of Alzheimer's disease and discover a potential treatment that obstructs the gene's moonlighting role." A team led by... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public." In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin said he sought to determine whether the Wikimedia Foundation's behavior is in violation of its Section... Read more ›
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The head of the Swiss National Bank said on Friday that cryptocurrencies failed to meet the institution's currency reserve standards, rebuffing calls by crypto advocates that it hold bitcoin as a hedge against growing global economic risks. From a report: Cryptocurrency campaigners are ramping up pressure on the SNB to buy bitcoin, arguing that the economic turmoil triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs made it more important for the... Read more ›
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Some developers are "crying foul" after Microsoft's C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code stopped working with VS Code derivatives like VS Codium and Cursor, reports The Register. The move has prompted Cursor to transition to open-source alternatives, while some developers are calling for a regulatory investigation into Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behavior. From the report: In early April, programmers using VS Codium, an open-source fork of Microsoft's MIT-licensed VS Code, and... Read more ›
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"4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online," notes BoingBoing. (They add that Thursday saw 4chan's first blog postin years — just the words "Testing testing 123 123...") But 4chan posted a much longer explanation on Friday," confirming their servers were compromised by a malicious PDF upload from "a hacker using a UK IP address," granting access... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new report finds. The report comes as the Trump administration is considering rolling back some key air quality regulations. Air quality across the country has improved dramatically since regulations like... Read more ›
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"The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives," reports It's FOSS News: This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post... Others then chimed in, saying that Lenovo has been doing this since at least 2020 and that the big price difference shows how ridiculous Windows' pricing... Read more ›
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The Trump administration introduced a new framework to expedite self-driving vehicle deployment by reducing regulatory hurdles, while maintaining mandatory safety incident reporting. NHTSA is also expanding its exemption program, allowing domestically produced autonomous vehicles lacking traditional safety controls to operate on U.S. roads. Reuters reports: The Trump administration said Thursday it aims to speed up the deployment of self-driving vehicles but will maintain rules requiring reporting of safety Read more ›
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