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In a landmark collaboration across 22 labs, neuroscientists have created the first brain-wide map of decision-making in mice, tracking over 620,000 neurons across nearly 280 brain regions. They found that decision-making is distributed much more broadly than previously thought, involving not just "cognitive" centers but also regions linked to movement. From a report: The task was deceptively simple task. Mice sat in front of a screen that intermittently displayed a black-and-white striped circle for a brief
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you've even idly checked in on the robust world of Doom fan development in recent years, you've probably encountered one of the hundreds of gameplay mods, WAD files, or entire commercial games based on GZDoom. The open source Doom port -- which can trace its lineage back to the original launch of ZDoom back in 1998 -- adds modern graphics... Read more ›
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Despite years of rumors suggesting Apple is working on Macs with Face ID instead of Touch ID, the technology isn't coming any time soon, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman claims that Apple is aiming to shift from Touch ID to Face ID in the Mac line, but the change "remains years away." Gurman and others have incorrectly predicted Face ID for Macs several times over the past five years.... Read more ›
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Waymo has announced a new partnership with DoorDash that will make the company's self-driving cars a delivery option for users in Phoenix, Arizona. You can already hail a ride in Waymo’s Arizona service area, but this new partnership will give the company's cars something to do when they're not transporting human cargo.To start, Waymo says that deliveries will be limited to things you can order through DashMart, DoorDash's storefront for... Read more ›
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40 Acres, The Cabin in the Woods, and Barbarian are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now. Read more ›
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“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it. Read more ›
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The Crew 2 was updated today to include Hybrid Mode, adding an offline mode to the driving game. Online and offline modes are separate saves, so if you snag a sweet ride while playing offline, it won't be available the next time you join an online session. Players will have the option to re-export their online save to the offline one, but it will overwrite and erase all offline-only progress.... Read more ›
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Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns. Read more ›
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Smucker said in a lawsuit this week that Trader Joe's "launched an obvious copycat" of its Uncrustables line of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Read more ›
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Preliminary data is pouring in concerning T-Satellite from T-Mobile, the satellite-powered network that essentially all carrier customers can access when in rural and hard-to-reach spots for conventional terrestrial towers. Thanks to a report from Ookla, we can see that while T-Mobile customers represent the majority of connections to these satellites, likely due to the fact … Continued Read the original post: AT&T Users Loving T-Mobile’s Satellite Connectivity Read more ›
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The Unites States Chamber of Commerce sued the Trump administration over the new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. Read more ›
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On Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law legislation banning the use of price-fixing software by landlords to set rental rates. New York is the first state to outlaw algorithmic pricing by landlords, following a number of city-wide bans in Jersey City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. Software companies such as RealPage offer […] Read more ›
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Recovery teams working on the Titan submersible have found the vessel's specialist stills and video camera intact. Read more ›
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Lake Lugano offers calm waters, alpine views, Italian flair, and fewer crowds — a quieter alternative to Lake Como. Read more ›
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Russia's Shahed-style drones have been deadly in the Ukraine war. They're cheap, easy to make, and have tremendous reach. Read more ›
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Judge Sara L. Ellis of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said during a hearing Thursday morning that she would require ICE agents in Chicago engaged in “Operation Midway Blitz” to use body cameras. But the logistics of enforcing her order are yet to be worked out, since Chicago was not […] Read more ›
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Find out how to watch "Jurassic World: Rebirth" at home, including when and where it will be streaming. Read more ›
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A review of data from LinkedIn profiles shows fewer assistant US attorneys have joined the Justice Department so far this year than years prior. Read more ›
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Engineer Denis Stetskov, writing in a blog: The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago. Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue. We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes... Read more ›
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"I'm here to say we have to give these AI bubble predictions a rest," says Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi. First of all, AI is a real technology being deployed in real ways inside of Corporate America. Second, this technology is requiring more physical assets in the ground — which are being built to support AI's real-world application. What Zach Dell (son of Michael Dell) is working on at... Read more ›
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I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos..." And... "You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year." If I moved the slidebar for that setting to the left (for "No"), it moved back to the right, and said "Something went wrong while updating... Read more ›
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"Next time Amazon hypes its Prime Days savings, remember this: The prices during the sale aren't always better," writes a Washington Post technology columnist. "I've got the receipts to prove it." I would have saved, on average, almost nothing during Amazon's recent fall "Prime Big Deal Days" — and for some big-ticket purchases, I would have actually paid amore. For the sale that took place Oct. 7 and 8, my... Read more ›
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Anthropic researchers, working with the UK AI Security Institute, found that poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears. The study shows even massive models like GPT-3.5 and Llama 3.1 are vulnerable. The Register reports: In order to generate poisoned data for their... Read more ›
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A Meta executive in charge of building the company's metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to "go 5X faster," according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media. From the report: "Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%," the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, said (AI4P is AI for Productivity). The idea is that programmers should be using AI to work five times... Read more ›
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Climate change has pushed warm-water coral reefs past a point of no return, marking the first time a major climate tipping point has been crossed, according to a report released on Sunday by an international team in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Brazil this November. From a report: Tipping points include global ice loss, Amazon rainforest loss, and the possible collapse of vital ocean currents.... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Following U.S. lawmakers' call on Tuesday for broader bans on the export of chipmaking equipment to China, China dramatically expanded its rare earths export controls on Thursday, adding five new elements, dozens of pieces of refining technology, and extra scrutiny for semiconductor users as Beijing tightens control over the sector ahead of talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The new rules expands controls... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: Bitcoin and Ethereum both saw record liquidations as investors reacted to fears over a trade war, which saw many crypto investors move their money to stablecoins or safer assets... Bitcoin fell by more than 10 per cent to below $110,000, before recovering to $113,096 on Saturday morning. The value of Ethereum slumped by 11.2 per cent to $3,878. Other cryptocurrencies, including... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this excerpt from a Los Angeles Times newsletter: One of the most consequential moments in California's drive to beat back climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving electricity from the Intermountain Power Plant in Central Utah, meaning our reliance on coal as a source of power will essentially be over... [T]he U.S. got nearly half its electricity from coal-fired plants as... Read more ›
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