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Nvidia unveils security platform to stop AI agents from going rogue after...

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

NATO uses fighter jets to stop drones. One ally says a Ukraine-inspired...

Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back

Caution ahead, the market has bad breadth: Larry Berman

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A minor flex

Kubb Fanless mini PC gets a 13 kg pure-gold chassis worth around $1.7 million...

McDonald’s sell-off hits 30% as Big Mac inflation spurs pushback

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Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery

Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws

Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034

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Palmer Luckey says founders don't get to have all the fun

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion | TechCrunch

Anthropic warns AI may pose ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO filing:...

Meta's Muse is counting on you to shop. It might just be another place for...

Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents | TechCrunch

Over-under on this being total bs?:

FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data

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OpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concerns

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With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life...

Researcher solves a nanoparticle mystery using an iPhone camera

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https://cybernews.com/privacy/flock-ceo-home-public-toilet/

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Ukraine's battlefield supply robots have learned how to swim

Ukrainians say their drone-on-drone war is clocking speeds faster than Formula...

Walmart bans AI slop signs in stores

Here are the tasks that execs from Anduril to Zendesk are giving their...

Evan Gershkovich, WSJ reporter jailed by Putin: ‘They didn’t break me as a...

Why monkeys handle conflicts better than we do

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/anthropic-says-its-ai-discovered-a-new-enzyme-system-that-resembles-the-revolutionary-gene-editing-tool-crispr-180989578/

Here's why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia's industry-wide effort to end rogue...

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Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users...

Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals

This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data

[daemond]

Oh dear

Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons

PEBKAC:

I gave my local LLM a nearly-full SSD and told it to find everything I could...

[daemond]

OpenAI connects the Dots

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Six Flags shuts down X2 rollercoaster after more than 100 allege brain injuries

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Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates

[daemond]

The ugly economics of consumer AI | TechCrunch

Bill Gates says companies that replace human labor with robots should have to...

Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins

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Goldwater Institute calls Pima County's data center ban illegal

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Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it...

Digging deep, researchers find high-altitude glacier endured last ice age

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A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring

Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com

The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers

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RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices

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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists

Mike Johnson Aide Abruptly Cancels Luxury Staff Trip Ahead of Midterms

Ouch

Buyer records full RTX 5090 unboxing, finds no GPU and no PCB inside -...

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to...

AI researcher says an ‘intelligence explosion’ could lead to ‘Mythos-level’...

Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained...

People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure...