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Flying is still safe – but the FAA isn't (theverge.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a new AI startup (techcrunch.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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1.5M-Year-Old Bone Tool 'Factory' Discovered in Tanzania (sci.news)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | sci.news | frontpage

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Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may "simply not get made" (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Nintendo says legal win against piracy "significant" for "entire games industry" (eurogamer.net)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | eurogamer.net | newest

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Google is expanding AI Overviews worldwide, and adding an AI Mode (theverge.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | frontpage

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DOGE's Misplaced War on Software Licenses (wired.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | wired.com | frontpage

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First "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" runs on living human cells (newatlas.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | newatlas.com | newest

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Nine in 10 UK undergraduates now using AI in assessments (timeshighereducation.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | timeshighereducation.com | newest

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Google Must Testify as LaLiga Demands Criminal Liability for 'Piracy Profits' (torrentfreak.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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Google Play is going to start highlighting apps with widgets (theverge.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Rockstar Games Acquires Long Time Partner Studio (gamerant.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | gamerant.com | newest

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Researchers surprised less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (2024) (infoworld.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | infoworld.com | newest

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Elegy for the Screenshot (screenslate.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | screenslate.com | newest

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Private lunar lander successfully touches down on the moon (pbs.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | pbs.org | newest

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AI could combat conspiracy theories, according to new research (washingtonpost.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger (garymarcus.substack.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | substack.com | best

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is 'out of GPUs' (techcrunch.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | newest

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Apple's Find My exploit lets hackers track any Bluetooth device (9to5mac.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | 9to5mac.com | newest

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German startup wins accolade for its fusion reactor design (techcrunch.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Google's free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Majority of workers (55%) rarely or never use AI chatbots at work (pewresearch.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | pewresearch.org | newest

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Dutch software firm Bird to leave Europe due to onerous regulations in AI era (reuters.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | reuters.com | frontpage

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Google's AI previews erode the internet, US edtech company says in lawsuit (reuters.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | reuters.com | newest

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VPN Providers Consider Exiting France over 'Dangerous' Blocking Demands (torrentfreak.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI (niemanlab.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | niemanlab.org | frontpage

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Grok 3 is highly vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (simonwillison.net)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | simonwillison.net | frontpage

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'Event Scripts' Structure Our Personal Memories (quantamagazine.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | newest

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AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years (bbc.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | bbc.com | newest

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Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | best

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ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly active users (engadget.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | engadget.com | newest

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Why Xbox Game Pass is still not the Netflix of gaming (theverge.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds (time.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | time.com | newest

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After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem (quantamagazine.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | best

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Brazilian ship sunk by WWII U-Boat located (archaeology.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | archaeology.org | frontpage

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ISP Must Unmask 100 Alleged BitTorrent Pirates in RIAA Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | frontpage

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Google's new AI generates hypotheses for researchers (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Elon Musk's Man in Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO (wired.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | wired.com | frontpage

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All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days (engadget.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | engadget.com | newest

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OpenAI board considers special voting powers to prevent Elon Musk takeover (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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New Grok 3 release tops LLM leaderboards despite Musk-approved "based" opinions (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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WhatsApp Faces Tougher EU Rules as Users TopM (msn.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | msn.com | newest

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The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom (theverge.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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SanDisk puts petabyte SSDs on the roadmap (tomshardware.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | tomshardware.com | newest

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Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Italy (archaeology.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | archaeology.org | newest

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One Woman Traced a Deepfake Betrayal to a Close Friend (bbc.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | bbc.com | newest

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The UK's war on encryption affects all of us (theverge.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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OpenAI may pay Reddit $70M for licensing deal (searchengineland.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | searchengineland.com | newest

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Amazon is closing USB access in Kindle that made it easy to remove DRM (androidpolice.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | androidpolice.com | frontpage

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Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook (theverge.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | frontpage

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OpenAI lays out plans for GPT-5 (theverge.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Court Decides That Use of Copyrighted Works in AI Training Is Not Fair Use (jenner.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | jenner.com | newest

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OpenAI says Musk's takeover bid contradicts his lawsuit against it (reuters.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | reuters.com | newest

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Google will use machine learning to estimate a user's age (theverge.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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OpenAI postpones its o3 AI model in favor of a 'unified' next-gen release (techcrunch.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | newest

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AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds (theregister.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theregister.com | frontpage

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Science First Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Detected (nature.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | nature.com | newest

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Judge orders Trump admin. to restore CDC and FDA webpages by midnight (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Donkey Kong's famed kill screen has been cleared (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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T‑Mobile Starlink Beta is now open to everyone for free (t-mobile.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | t-mobile.com | newest

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Boeing reports Starliner losses of more than half a billion dollars in 2024 (spacenews.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | spacenews.com | frontpage

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8M Requests Later,We Made the SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur (watchtowr.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | watchtowr.com | newest

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A runic inscription on Viking-age treasure find has been deciphered (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Many Americans still don't understand how easily IoT devices can get bricked (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Scientists find that things do seem better in the morning (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theguardian.com | newest

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LaLiga: Cloudflare, Google and X Are Essential Piracy Facilitators (torrentfreak.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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Anthropic dares you to jailbreak its new AI model (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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"Zero warnings": Longtime YouTuber rails against unexplained channel removal (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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AI to revolutionise fundamental physics at Large Hadron Collider (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theguardian.com | newest

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It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX's Starship probe still has some bite (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion (techcrunch.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | newest

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Google removed 2.36M apps from Google Play using AI threat detection (googleblog.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | googleblog.com | frontpage

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Court Rejects Musi's Bid to Force Apple to Reinstate Its Music App (torrentfreak.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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New training approach helps AI agents perform better in uncertain conditions (news.mit.edu)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | mit.edu | newest

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Intel won't bring its Falcon Shores AI chip to market (techcrunch.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | newest

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Papyrus Found in Desert Tells of Roman Trial for Forgery and Tax Fraud (archaeology.org)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | archaeology.org | newest

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Lawsuit accuses Amazon of tracking consumers through cellphones (msn.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | msn.com | newest

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Archivists Work to Save the Datasets Disappearing from Data.gov (404media.co)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | 404media.co | newest

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Italy's regulator blocks Chinese AI app DeepSeek on data protection (reuters.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | reuters.com | newest

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Am Radio for All Vehicles legislation reintroduced, making AM mandatory (agweek.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | agweek.com | newest

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Pirate IPTV: Sweden Mulls 'Viewing Ban' as Illegal Subscriptions Soar 25% (torrentfreak.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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AI-assisted works can get copyright if human creativity,says US copyright office (apnews.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | apnews.com | newest

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Astronauts are fine and do not need saving by Musk (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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OpenAI has evidence that DeepSeek distilled OpenAI model after illegal access (theverge.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Donald Trump asks Elon Musk to 'go get' NASA astronauts stuck in space (thehill.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | thehill.com | newest

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Trump to federal workers: Resign now and get paid through September (npr.org)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | npr.org | newest

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Record $4.5B EU fine punished its innovation, Google tells EU court (yahoo.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | yahoo.com | newest

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Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek (garymarcus.substack.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | substack.com | newest

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Dutch LLM Taken Down Following Legal Pressure from Anti-Piracy Group (torrentfreak.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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'Sputnik moment': $1T wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | theguardian.com | newest

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Sweden seizes ship after suspected Baltic Sea cable sabotage (bbc.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | bbc.com | newest

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Netflix won the streaming wars, and we're all about to pay for it (theverge.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC–but it sure is fast (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Researchers find a surprising link between breathing and memory (thebrighterside.news)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | thebrighterside.news | newest