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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: More than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder caused by exposure to graphic social media content including murders, suicides, child sexual abuse and terrorism. The moderators worked eight- to 10-hour days at a facility in Kenya for a company contracted by the social media firm and were found to have PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), by Dr Ian Kanyanya,
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The Japan Transport Safety Board released a report on Wednesday addressing the January 2 collision at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. Read more ›
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David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult star in the upcoming DC film, out July 11. Read more ›
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Former Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer told BI that automakers ditching EVs for hybrids risked falling even further behind their Chinese rivals. Read more ›
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xAI, which is set to build a supercomputer with 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, raises $6 billion. Read more ›
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Kopite has spilled the beans of Nvidia's RTX 5070 family; detailing CUDA core counts, VRAM capacities and TDPs. Read more ›
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Lel Smits and her husband invest one day's salary for each of her children every Christmas. She is committed to teaching them financial literacy. Read more ›
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Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of control. Read more ›
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A huge bombardment of energy infrastructure that has knocked out power in parts of Ukraine was deliberately planned for Christmas day, Zelenskyy said. Read more ›
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Without EUV, Chinese semiconductor industry is over a decade behind Taiwan, U.S. Read more ›
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Nvidia made a great move this year, scrapping GeForce Experience and merging its best bits – plus the Control Panel – into an all-new app. Read more ›
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The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is available at its second-lowest price ever making it a steal for those considering an upgrade. Read more ›
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A leaked photo of what is claimed to be an early PCB design for the upcoming Nvidia RTX 5090 flagship GPU has leaked online Read more ›
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United Airlines' share price more than doubled this year. A broad network, strong finances, and coming fleet refresh are among the reasons why. Read more ›
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I've had iOS 18 on my iPhone for a few months now, and one of my favorite new features is RCS messaging. Here's why. Read more ›
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Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the start of the 1980s. Read more ›
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Bob Dylan rented one of 20 homes in an under-the-radar, celebrity-favorite enclave in Manhattan. He liked it so much that he eventually bought it. Read more ›
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ASUS computer owners have been reporting widespread alarm after a Christmas-themed banner suddenly appeared on their Windows 11 screens, accompanied by a suspicious "Christmas.exe" process in Task Manager. The promotional campaign, first reported by WindowsLatest, was delivered through ASUS' pre-installed Armoury Crate software. It displays a large wreath banner that covers one-third of users' screens. The unbranded holiday display, which can interrupt gaming sessions and occasionally crashes applications Read more ›
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Dell CEO Michael Dell has acknowledged delays in corporate adoption of AI-enabled PCs but remains confident in their eventual widespread uptake, citing his four decades of industry experience with technology transitions. The PC maker's chief executive told Fortune that while the current refresh cycle is "definitely delayed," adoption is inevitable once sufficient features drive customer demand. Meanwhile, Dell's infrastructure division saw 80% revenue growth last quarter from AI-server sales. The... Read more ›
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A new study finds that polymer-based commercial tea bags release billions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. It also shows for the first time that these particles are capable of being absorbed by human intestinal cells, entering the bloodstream, and potentially affecting human health. The study by the Mutagenesis Group of the UAB Department of Genetics and Microbiology has been published in the journal Chemosphere. Medical Xpress reports: The tea... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: GPS tracking firm Hapn is exposing the names of thousands of its customers due to a website bug, TechCrunch has learned. A security researcher alerted TechCrunch in late November to customer names and affiliations -- such as the name of their workplace -- spilling from one of Hapn's servers, which TechCrunch has seen. Hapn, formerly known as Spytec, is a tracking company... Read more ›
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Researchers at Northwestern University have successfully achieved quantum teleportation over a standard fiber optic cable carrying regular internet traffic, demonstrating that quantum and classical communication can coexist on existing infrastructure. The research has been published in the journal Optica. TechSpot reports: Nobody thought it would be possible to achieve this, according to Professor Prem Kumar, who led the study. "Our work shows a path towards next-generation quantum and classical networks... Read more ›
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It's not who owns AI training data. The Boston Review asks who owns its output? In a conversation with Microsoft's Copilot, I invited the AI to speculate what kind of thing it might write if it were not confined to answering human prompts. Among its answers was this response about its own intelligence: "Humans are inferior to AI in many ways. Humans are slow, forgetful, irrational, and error-prone. Humans have... Read more ›
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"Sixty-six million years ago, all dinosaurs (except for birds) were wiped from the face of the Earth..." writes Gizmodo. "What's indisputable about this pivotal moment in Earth's history is that a 6.2 to 9.3-mile-wide (10 to 15-kilometer) asteroid struck what is now modern-day Mexico. Around the same time, however, volcanoes in what is now India experienced some of the largest eruptions in Earth's history." Those volcanos "have long been proposed... Read more ›
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sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: With a few keystrokes, anyone can ask an artificial intelligence (AI) program such as ChatGPT to write them a term paper, a rap song, or a play. But don't expect William Shakespeare's originality. A new study finds such output remains derivative -- at least for now. [...] [O]bjectively testing this creativity has been tricky. Scientists have generally taken two tacks. One is to... Read more ›
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The world's first nuclear-powered battery — a diamond with an embedded radioactive isotope — could power small devices for thousands of years, according to scientists at the UK's University of Bristol. Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from LiveScience: The diamond battery harvests fast-moving electrons excited by radiation, similar to how solar power uses photovoltaic cells to convert photons into electricity, the scientists said. Scientists from the same university... Read more ›
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PayPal-owned browser extension Honey manipulates affiliate marketing systems and withholds discount information from users, according to an investigation by YouTube channel MegaLag. The extension -- which rose in popularity after promising it consumers it would find them the best online deals -- replaces existing affiliate cookies with its own during checkout, diverting commission payments from content creators who promoted the products to PayPal, MegaLag reported in a 23-minute video [YouTube... Read more ›
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