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Friday December 6, 2024. 08:19 PM
In the wake of the murder of its CEO this week, UnitedHealthcare has come under greater scrutiny for its use of an allegedly flawed AI algorithm that overrides doctors to deny elderly patients critical heathcare coverage. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot...
The fine folks at QVC want to let you know that if you are among the million people who bought a pair of 'Temp-tations' oven gloves — which have all the heat protection of wet newspaper — and subsequently scorched the bejesus out of your fingers while removing your tray...
The WHO has sent epidemiologists to the country to uncover the cause of the illness, which has killed more than 70 people, half of them children.
A compromised release was uploaded to PyPI after a project automatically processed a pull request with a flawed script. The GitHub account 'OpenIM Robot' (which appears to be controlled by Xinwei Xiong) opened a pull request for the ultralytics Python package. The pull...
The Microsoft Excel World Championship handed the 2024 trophy to a beaming, bearded Canadian: Michael Jarman, whose spreadsheet skills topped all others in a heated competition in Las Vegas this week. Jarman, a modelling director at Operis (financial, not swimsuit) also...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid used in veterinary medicine to knock out huge animals like elephants and rhinoceroses for surgery. It's apparently 10,000 times more stronger than morphine and 100 times ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC... [I]t would appear there is a new Kunpeng SoC coming...
Proposal pushes stricter infosec safeguards after Chinese state baddies expose vulns The head of America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to force telecoms operators to tighten network security in the wake of the Salt Typhoon revelations, and to submit an...
A vulture crashed into the cockpit of a small plane carrying five passengers, gruesomely hanging in front of the pilot's face for the rest of the flight. But the pilot, whose view was partially blocked by the dead bird, remained incredibly calm as he landed the plane at an...
There's a scene in Quentin Tarantino's 2015 Western, The Hateful Eight, where Kurt Russell grabs Jennifer Jason Leigh's guitar and smashes it against a wooden column. Turns out that wasn't just any old guitar — it was a priceless 1870s Martin acoustic on loan from the...
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Palm vein scanning is surprisingly accurate—and easy Lots of extra access methods included Rechargeable battery included Cons Reliant on the awful Tuya Smart Life app Beastly interior escutcheon Very small keypad makes it easy to touch ...
David Sacks, a member of the infamous “PayPal Mafia,” will lead a group of advisers tasked with steering AI and crypto policy under the Trump administration.
An anonymous reader shared this report from Defense News: Following a pattern of undersea cable damage across European waters in the last year, with the most recent disruptions happening just weeks ago, top NATO officials have begun envisioning a capability that would allow...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Defense News: Following a pattern of undersea cable damage across European waters in the last year, with the most recent disruptions happening just weeks ago, top NATO officials have begun envisioning a capability that would allow...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! New analysis of tiny spoons found attached to belts of Barbarian warriors at ancient burial sites suggest that the Roman-era Germanic soldiers snorted stimulants and other drugs to embolden them in...
Calling everything SageMaker is confusing – but a new name would have been worse says AWS re:Invent Amazon has introduced a new generation of SageMaker at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, bringing together analytics and AI, though with some confusion thanks to the...
Mistral AI, a French AI company founded by ex-Google and Meta employees, has unveiled a significant update to its multimodal AI chatbot, Le Chat. Packed with new features, including web search, document analysis, and superior image-generation capabilities, Le Chat...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Road workers on Federal Highway 105 in Hidalgo, Mexico were surprised when their construction project revealed an ancient pyramid dating back more than 1,000 years. The pyramid was part of a pre-Hispanic ...
Trump-pick for secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host accused of drinking on the job and sexual misconduct, is a 'WINNER' according to Donald Trump. And if this MAGA champ loses his confirmation, he may sue the woman who accused him of sexual assault in...
Apple’s leaders claim the company wasn’t late to generative AI, but instead following what has become its familiar playbook: try to be the best, not the first.
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