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The companies rely on user activity to train and improve their AI systems, so they are testing this tech inside products we use every day. Typing a question such as "Is Jay-Z left-handed?" in Google wi
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Former President Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that Vice President Kamala Harris never worked at McDonald's during a summer in the 1980s. Read more ›
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi appeared on Friday's episode of the Hard Fork podcast, where he spoke about the future of the autonomous vehicle industry. Read more ›
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Fernanda Fabian is non-monogamous but her partner Seth is. This is how they make their relationship work for both of them. Read more ›
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"Scarface" and "The Godfather" actor Al Pacino blamed his reckless spending, financial ignorance, and his accountant for his money troubles. Read more ›
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Indie horror developer Bloober Team says its done making "shitty" games. Read more Read more ›
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Find yourself a VCR, grab some popcorn, and watch Alien: Romulus old school style during the holidays. Read more ›
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"I never realized how hypervigilant I was all the time, even off-duty, until I moved here," the retired cop told BI. Read more ›
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A Steam Deck designer has confirmed that Valve will not follow an yearly release cycle for the Steam Deck. Read more ›
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The tech billionaire kicked off the giveaways at a rally in Harrisburg on Saturday, handing a million-dollar check to a man named John Dreher. Read more ›
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Chief laid off staff last week. The company, valued at $1.1 billion in 2022, also laid off employees last year. Read more ›
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It’s time to dust off your VCR and clean the heads, because Alien: Romulus is coming to VHS as a limited edition on December 3rd alongside the other physical releases, director Fede Alvarez announced during “a special Beyond Fest-partnered screening” in Los Angeles yesterday. The “fully functioning VHS tape” is meant to celebrate 45 years since the Alien franchise first (chest) burst into theaters, 20th Century Studios wrote in a... Read more ›
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Michelle Yeoh is back in Trek. | Screenshot: YouTube Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere as a direct-to-streaming movie on January 24th on Paramount Plus, which revealed the date during a Trek panel at the New York Comic Con. Fans will finally see Michelle Yeoh’s Star Trek: Discovery character, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, put her Mirrorverse skills to use as a super secret space spy. When we last saw Emperor Georgiou... Read more ›
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I started dating a guy two decades older than me. The age gap relationship helped me open up emotionally, and he helped me land a gig in my industry. Read more ›
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Life is pretty good inside Apple's walled garden, but I'm not ready to trade operating systems just yet. Read more ›
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The key to being a good Godzilla filmmaker, according to Minus One's Takashi Yamazaki, is a love of cats. Read more ›
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Cloud Imperium has dropped an extended gameplay reveal of its upcoming Star Citizen spin-off, Squadron 42, which will release in 2026. Read more Read more ›
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The team behind "Stardew Valley meets Skyrim" viral hit Hawthorn are "developing this game from [their] personal pockets". Read more Read more ›
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Hasbro brought the galaxy far, far away to New York Comic Con this year to show off its first figures inspired by the next live-action Star Wars show, Skeleton Crew. Read more ›
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Gearbox's shoot-n-loot franchise will always get to party like it's still 2009, and y'know what? Maybe it deserves to. Read more ›
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Apple's $3,499 Vision Pro is struggling to attract major software-makers to develop apps for the device, a challenge that threatens to slow the progress of the company's biggest new product in a decade. WSJ: New apps released on the Vision Pro every month have slowed since its launch in January. Some of the most successful virtual-reality software developers have so far opted not to build apps for the headset. Without... Read more ›
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AWS CEO Matt Garman has harsh words for remote workers: return to the office or quit. TechCrunch: The Amazon executive recently told employees who don't like the new five-day in-person work policy that, "there are other companies around," presumably companies they can work for remotely, Reuters reported on Thursday. Amazon's top boss, Andy Jassy, told employees last month that there will be a full return-to-office starting in 2025, an increase... Read more ›
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Apple's AI research team has uncovered significant weaknesses in the reasoning abilities of large language models, according to a newly published study. MacRumors: The study, published on arXiv [PDF], outlines Apple's evaluation of a range of leading language models, including those from OpenAI, Meta, and other prominent developers, to determine how well these models could handle mathematical reasoning tasks. The findings reveal that even slight changes in the phrasing of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Donald Trump said Apple CEO Tim Cook called him to discuss the billions of dollars that Apple has been fined in the European Union. Trump made the statement during his appearance on the PBD Podcast -- and said that he won't let the EU "take advantage" of US companies like Apple if reelected. "Two hours ago, three hours ago, he [Cook]... Read more ›
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smooth wombat writes: In 2013, James Howell's partner inadvertently threw out a hard drive along with other trash. Unknown to this person, this hard drive contained approximately 8,000 bitcoins. For the past decade Howell has been petitioning the town council of Newport to excavate the landfill in the hope of recovering the drive which would now hold approximately $647 million worth of cryptocurrency. Now he is suing the council in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Christensen, along with Randy Suess, created the first BBS in Chicago in 1978, leading to an important cultural era of digital community-building that presaged much of our online world today. Friends and associates remember Christensen as humble and unassuming, a quiet... Read more ›
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The parents of a Massachusetts student are suing his school after he was penalized for using AI in a Social Studies project, claiming it was for research purposes only. The student received a detention and a lower grade, which his parents argue could harm his college prospects. The school is defending its AI policy and fighting to dismiss the case. The Register reports: "The Plaintiff Student will suffer irreparable harm... Read more ›
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Salesforce founder and chief executive Marc Benioff has doubled down on his criticism of Microsoft's Copilot, the AI-powered tool that can write Word documents, create PowerPoint presentations, analyze Excel spreadsheets and even reply to emails through Outlook. In a post on X, he writes: When you look at how Copilot has been delivered to customers, it's disappointing. It just doesn't work, and it doesn't deliver any level of accuracy. Gartner... Read more ›
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One year from today, on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop releasing security updates for PCs that are still running Windows 10. From a report: Organizations and individuals will still be able to pay for three more years of updates, with prices that go up steadily each year (Microsoft still hasn't provided pricing for end users, only saying that it will release pricing info "closer to the October 2025 date.")... Read more ›
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The Register's Jessica Lyons reports: Apple wants to shorten SSL/TLS security certificates' lifespans, down from 398 days now to just 45 days by 2027, and sysadmins have some very strong feelings about this "nightmarish" plan. As one of the hundreds that took to Reddit to lament the proposal said: "This will suck. My least favorite vendor manages something like 10 websites for us, and we have to provide the certs... Read more ›
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Tom's Hardware
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Gizmodo
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Android Authority
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