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Saturday August 9, 2025. 12:20 AM
Truth Search AI appears to rely heavily on conservative outlet Fox News to answer even the most basic questions.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now...
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Friday August 8, 2025. 11:22 PM
South Korea postponed a decision for the second time this year on Friday regarding Google's request to export detailed mapping data to overseas servers, which would enable full Google Maps functionality in the country. The inter-agency committee extended the deadline from...
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TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for just $29.97—no subscription, no AI hype, just the classic apps you actually use. Here's a secret: you don't need some futuristic AI robot to help you write a grocery list or build a budget spreadsh...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The Federal Communications Commission is planning a review of the US emergency alert systems. Both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WAS) will be subject to a 're-examination' by the agency. 'We want to...
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To keep toxic content from damaging brands, both people and machines have a place Human content moderators still outperform AI when it comes to recognizing policy-violating material, but they also cost significantly more.…
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Security researchers found two techniques to crack at least eight brands of electronic safes—used to secure everything from guns to narcotics—that are sold with Securam Prologic locks.
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If the Lebanese owner of Trump Burger thought his blatant support of Donald Trump would give him a free pass in Texas, he was sorely proven wrong when ICE arrested him in May. The 28-year-old MAGA man was accused of immigration fraud and now faces deportation. — Read the...
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Choosing human-readable file formats is an act of technological sovereignty. It’s about maintaining control over your data, ensuring long-term accessibility, and building systems that remain comprehensible and maintainable over time. The slight overhead of human readability...
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Speaker of the House 'MAGA' Mike Johnson seems to have complicated situations revolving around his Washington DC housing choices that look like he's breaking the law. Seems Mike is either living in his office or having his campaign pay his rent. — Read the rest The post...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: China told local brokers and other bodies to stop publishing research or hold seminars to promote stablecoins [non-paywalled source], seeking to rein in the asset class to avoid instability. Some leading brokerages and think tanks in late ...
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In misinformation, Russia might be the top dog but the Chinese are coming warns former NSA boss DEF CON A cache of documents uncovered by Vanderbilt University has revealed disturbing details about how a Chinese company is building up a database of US politicians and...
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Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen and his activist group 'Up In Arms' placed an emaciated doll asking riders to 'Remember Hiroshima' inside Disneyland's ear-worm attraction. The doll was spotted on the classic Disney ride on Sunday, August 3, a few days before the 80th...
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In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we're talking about why some chatbot subscriptions are so expensive and how these premium prices were determined on vibes more than anything substantial.
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who faces calls for resignation from President Trump, helped build China's semiconductor industry over four decades. Tan's San Francisco-based Walden International, founded in 1987, was invited by Chinese officials to introduce venture capital to China...
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I'm in love with Kiki the driving sheep! Kiki is an adorable sheep who happens to be paralyzed but who hasn't let that stop her from living the best life she can, with lots of help from her family at the Don't Forget Us, Pet Us, a nonprofit sanctuary and animal rescue. —...
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LLMs still struggle with accurate text within graphics hands on OpenAI's GPT-5, unveiled on Thursday, is supposed to be the company's flagship model, offering better reasoning and more accurate responses than previous-gen products. But when we asked it to draw maps and...
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Google will discontinue Steam for Chromebook Beta on January 1, 2026, removing all installed games from devices after that date. The beta launched in March 2022 as an alpha before expanding to beta status in November 2022 with reduced hardware requirements of Intel Core i3...
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'What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France?' Rakhim Davletkali asked Google this question and he says it 'failed miserably… Unless someone...
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We answered your questions about OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5, and what it means for the future of chatbots.
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