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At a Senate hearing, grieving parents testified that companion chatbots from major tech companies encouraged their children toward self-harm, suicide, and violence. One mom even claimed that Character.AI tried to "silence" her by forcing her into arbitration. Ars Technica reports: At the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing, one mom, identified as "Jane Doe," shared her son's story for the first time publicly after suing Character.AI. She explained that she had fou
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To the former health leaders, it seems pretty clear: Kennedy is a threat to the nation. Read more ›
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Sanders released a report this week that said AI could eliminate nearly 100 million jobs over the next decade. Read more ›
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Zelenskyy said Russia fired 496 strike drones and 53 missiles in one night, and they had 102,785 foreign-made components, including from the US. Read more ›
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Instead of slimming down the Pixel 10 Pro Fold to match competitors like Samsung, Google focused on extending battery life, adding dust resistance and keeping that $1,799 price. It pays off. Read more ›
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While the upcoming Honor Magic8 and Magic8 Pro have been the subject of numerous leaks, details about the higher-end Magic8 Ultra have remained scarce. A new rumor out of China claims that the Magic8 Ultra will stick with a triple rear camera setup, similar to the Magic7 Pro. Honor Magic7 Pro Tipster Smart Pikachu also reiterated that the Ultra variant will come with a new 200MP sensor for the telephoto... Read more ›
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io9 has an exclusive look at Alex Segura's 'Marvel’s Daredevil: The Illustrated History,' a chronicle of the Man Without Fear's adventures. Read more ›
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South Korea's government may have permanently lost 858TB of information after a fire at a data center in Daejeon. From a report: As reported by DCD, a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center, located in the city of Daejeon, on September 26, has caused havoc for government services in Korea. Work to restore the data center is ongoing, but officials fear data stored on the... Read more ›
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Celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, and Richard Gere are among the stars who have left America and moved elsewhere due to politics. Read more ›
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive has teased a new update to the game is on the way, as a "thank you" to fans. Read more Read more ›
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Gold prices are rallying to fresh highs, and helping Costco show strong online sales growth, too. Read more ›
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Review: Google's Pixel Watch 4 combines luxury features -- like satellite connectivity and advanced GPS -- with Gemini, a capable voice assistant that's even better on the wrist. Read more ›
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As Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the big screen with "Anemone," here's a look back at his movies and what critics thought of them. Read more ›
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Last week, the administration nixed more than $7.5 billion in clean energy project funding. New reports suggest that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Read more ›
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Air traffic control towers around the country are running short on staff. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI is preparing to raise roughly $20 billion through a mixture of equity and debt, with Nvidia playing a central role in the funding structure and chip supply. Read more ›
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Five years ago, I used to groan when it came time to review an Android smartwatch. Back then, anything that wasn't a Samsung watch was disappointing at best. The space was fragmented, battery life was dismal, and interest just didn't seem to be there. But now, the $349.99 Google Pixel Watch 4 is the most […] Read more ›
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FN Browning told Business Insider that annual global demand for its machine guns, including the M2, has doubled compared to 2022. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift visited New York City while promoting her new album, "The Life of a Showgirl." She wore a designer outfit and luxury jewelry while there. Read more ›
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Microsoft is eliminating all known workarounds that let users install Windows 11 without an internet connection or Microsoft account, forcing everyone through the online setup process. The Verge reports: "We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE)," says Amanda Langowski, the lead for the Windows Insider Program. "While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip... Read more ›
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning excessively loud advertisements on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime that could become a de facto national standard. From a report: The new California law is aimed at addressing what the Federal Communications Commission has called a "troubling jump" in TV ad noise complaints, fueled by streamers airing commercials louder than the shows and movies they accompany. It's modeled off... Read more ›
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The director of a tour operation remembers two tourists arriving in a rural town in Peru determined to hike alone in the mountains to a sacred canyon recommended by their AI chatbot. But the canyon didn't exists — and a high-altitude hike could be dangerous (especially where cellphone coverage is also spotty). They're part of a BBC report on travellers arriving at their destination "only to find they've been fed... Read more ›
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James Marriott, writing in a column: The world of print is orderly, logical and rational. In books, knowledge is classified, comprehended, connected and put in its place. Books make arguments, propose theses, develop ideas. "To engage with the written word," the media theorist Neil Postman wrote, "means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning." As Postman pointed out, it is no accident,... Read more ›
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Ford's push for a four-day in-office workweek hit turbulence when someone hijacked meeting room screens to display an anti-RTO protest image targeting CEO Jim Farley. The company quickly removed it and is investigating. The Detroit Free Press reports: According to photos employees took of the image, which were posted on social media and sent to the Detroit Free Press, it contained an image of CEO Jim Farley along with a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Tucked in the foothills of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains is a factory that has figured out a way to manufacture in America that's cheaper, quicker and better. It's the home of a famous American writing implement: the Sharpie marker. Pen barrels whirl along automated assembly lines that rapidly fill them with ink. At least half a billion Sharpie markers are churned out here every year,... Read more ›
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Currently DNA synthesis companies "deploy biosecurity software designed to guard against nefarious activity," reports the Washington Post, "by flagging proteins of concern — for example, known toxins or components of pathogens." But Microsoft researchers discovered "up to 100 percent" of AI-generated ricin-like proteins evaded detection — and worked with a group of leading industry scientists and biosecurity experts to design a patch. Microsoft's chief science officer called it "a Windows... Read more ›
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"It's not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast," writes Cory Doctorow. Sunday he shared an excerpt from his upcoming book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. He succinctly explains "this moment we're living through, this Great Enshittening" using Amazon as an example. Platforms amass users, but then abuse them to make things better for their business customers. And then they abuse those... Read more ›
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Paramount has acquired The Free Press, Bari Weiss's Substack-born media outlet, for $150 million and appointed Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News. The move effectively places a conservative-leaning Substack writer at the helm of a legacy news network, following the FCC's approval of the Skydance-Paramount merger, which required CBS to feature a broader "diversity of viewpoints from across the political and ideological spectrum." The Verge reports: Before starting The Free... Read more ›
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Americans' confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly, according to Gallup. From the report: This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago. Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have "not very much" confidence... Read more ›
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