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Jan 15 • 4 months ago

I can’t stop shooting Oddcore’s endless waves of weird little guys

Zippy action, fun upgrade system make for a great pick-up-and-play shooter. ...

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Jan 15 • 4 months ago

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows. ...

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Jan 15 • 4 months ago

SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined

On Jan. 6, there were 211 cases. The outbreak, which began in October, is now at 434. ...

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Jan 15 • 4 months ago

Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons

AI weapons systems may annihilate their creators. ...

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Jan 15 • 4 months ago

A car you can chat with and that gets you? Volvo dishes on AI-wielding EX60.

In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

The feature will start with paid users only, and it's off by default. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach

Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems—then had massive stroke

The MRI showed a problem in a brain artery that should have been flagged, man claims. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies

The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics

DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics. ...

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