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"OpenAI's o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off," warned Palisade Research, a nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities. "It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down." In September they released a paper adding that "several state-of-the-art large language models (including Grok 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro) sometimes actively subvert a shutdown mechanism..."
Now the nonprofit has written an update "attempting to clarif
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My parents died a few years apart, and I ran from my grief by overcommitting at work. After a leave of absence, I had to relearn work-life balance. Read more ›
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The pickle trend may have reached its apex with McDonald's launch of its Grinch meal, which features a dill-flavored seasoning for its iconic fries. Read more ›
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Michelle Routhenstein, a preventive cardiology dietitian, keeps workout equipment in her office and meal-preps most of her meals. Read more ›
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Everyone you know is about to start putting their money where their mouth is. Prediction markets are booming. Think of them as like a stock market, but instead of buying shares in companies, you buy shares in the outcomes of real-world events — and you can bet on almost anything. The top platforms, Kalshi and […] Read more ›
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Honda and Acura share platforms and engineering, but Consumer Reports' latest reliability rankings highlight important differences buyers should know. Read more ›
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The real winners in today's economy are the middlemen — rich intermediary companies like Walmart, Airbnb, and Lyft that connect buyers and sellers. Read more ›
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Miles Bradley said recruiters have encouraged him to lie on his résumé to present himself as the perfect "Goldilocks" candidate companies want. Read more ›
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The US is light years behind China in drone production. Firestorm Labs aims to solve that problem with small, mobile factories. Read more ›
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How to watch NBA for free. Watch Toronto Raptors vs. Boston Celtics in the NBA for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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When Komal Amin got a job at a company with an established AI mandate, she felt intimidated. Now, she uses it for everything from sending invoices to planning dates. Read more ›
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They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian? Read more ›
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Tiimo is an AI-powered visual planner that's marketed towards those with neurodivergent brains. It's Apple's pick for the best iPhone app of 2025. Read more ›
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Day Job, founded in 2018, made a name for itself working with iconic CPG products. Now it's on Silicon Valley's radar. Read more ›
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Samsung's 40-inch, curved gaming monitor will fit the needs of those who prefer to play in a dark, dank place. Read more ›
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Right now, millions of high school seniors are finalizing their college applications and anticipating where they’ll spend the next four years studying and sleeping on bunk beds. If the most hashtagged universities on TikTok are any indication, a lot of them will be headed below the Mason-Dixon line. You’ve probably heard about #RushTok, the corner […] Read more ›
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Technology is playing a bigger role in the hiring process, but often it's people, not bots, who are rejecting your application. Read more ›
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Lisa La Valle, 64, got divorced, quit her job, and moved to Europe. She loves her life abroad, but said it hasn't always been easy. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A few years ago, Paul Wieland, a 44-year-old information technology professional living in New York's Adirondack Mountains, was wrapping up a home renovation when he ran into a hiccup. He wanted to be able to control his new garage door with his smartphone. But the options available, including a product called MyQ, required connecting to a company's internet servers.... Read more ›
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Bruce66423 shares a report from the Los Angeles Times: Tattoo ink doesn't just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines. Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens after tattooing. Pigments drained into nearby lymph nodes within minutes and continued to... Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds recently defended Windows' infamous Blue Screen of Death during a video with Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips, where the two built a PC together. It's FOSS reports: In that video, Sebastian discussed Torvalds' fondness for ECC (Error Correction Code). I am using their last name because Linus will be confused with Linus. This is where Torvalds says this: "I am convinced that all the jokes about how... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader writes: Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices. An updated help page on Netflix's website, first reported by Android Authority, says that the streaming service "no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices," and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with... Read more ›
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Microsoft has acknowledged that a recent Windows preview update, KB5064081, contains a bug that renders the password icon invisible on the lock screen, leaving users to click on what appears to be empty space to enter their credentials. The issue affects Windows Insider channel users who installed the non-security preview update. The company's suggested workaround is straightforward if somewhat absurd: click where the button should be, and the password field... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models. Researchers at the company can make an LLM produce what they call a confession, in which the model explains how it carried out a task and (most of the time) owns up to any bad behavior. Figuring out why large language models do... Read more ›
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sinij shares news of the Trump administration surprising the auto industry by granting approval for "tiny cars" to be built in the United States. Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the U.S., despite concerns that they're too small and slow to be driven safely... Read more ›
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Micron is shutting down its Crucial consumer RAM business in 2026 after nearly three decades, citing heavy demand from AI data centers. "The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage," Sumit Sadana, EVP and chief business officer at Micron Technology, said in a statement. "Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve... Read more ›
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Cloudflare says it blocked 416 billion AI scraping attempts in five months and warns that AI is reshaping the internet's economic model -- with Google's combined crawler creating a monopoly-style dilemma where opting out of AI means disappearing from search altogether. Tom's Hardware reports: "The business model of the internet has always been to generate content that drive traffic and then sell either things, subscriptions, or ads, [Cloudflare CEO Matthew... Read more ›
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The Zig Software Foundation has quit GitHub after years of unresolved GitHub Actions bugs -- including a "safe_sleep" script that could spin forever and cripple CI runners. Zig leadership puts the blame on Microsoft's growing AI-first priorities and declining engineering quality. Other open-source developers are voicing similar frustrations. The Register reports: The drama began in April 2025 when GitHub user AlekseiNikiforovIBM started a thread titled "safe_sleep.sh rarely hangs indefinitely." GitHub... Read more ›
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