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Friday August 29, 2025. 11:31 PM
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attacking doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), falsely claiming the agency lists abortion as one of the greatest advances in medicine. This dangerous lie comes as the CDC grapples with a deadly shooting at ...
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The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a call from the National Association of Broadcasters and some industry trade groups that would have imposed cable-style regulatory fees on streaming services, tech companies and pure broadband providers. From a report: In a...
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President Trump's political rivals are facing a new threat: a powerful ally within the Department of Justice who reports directly to Trump. Edward Martin, a GOP activist turned 'special attorney,' is preparing felony indictments against prominent Democrats while bypassing...
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The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make them follow any command.…
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TL;DR: ChatPlayground AI allows you to pay a one-time fee of $39.99 to access premium versions of 40+ top AI models. People keep saying AI is the future, but that doesn't mean we all have unlimited funds to pay for premium subscriptions. — Read the rest The post Access more...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of 'specific targeted users.' The Meta-owned messaging app giant said in its...
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Framework's modular laptops allow something otherwise generally unfeasible for gaming or graphics on the go: upgradeable GPUs. NVidia's powerful RTX 5070 is now available for the 16-model, the company announced. Good for the frame rates, bad for the bank account. — Read the...
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Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation's reliance on Nvidia GPUs. …
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DOD: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft program that has allowed Chinese coders, remotely supervised by U.S. contractors, to work on sensitive DOD cloud systems. In a digital video address to the public posted yesterday, the...
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Alexandra Balwit's article, 'Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine' explores how leeches, once dismissed as medieval quackery, are gaining new respect in modern medicine. 'Men would rather pop Viagra forever than let a leech near their body,' Dr. Andrei Dokukin tells ...
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Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI's Grok in the federal government, calling the AI unsafe, untested, and ideologically...
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Blocky Planet is a tech demo I created in the Unity game engine that attempts to map Minecraft’s cubic voxels onto a spherical planet. The planet is procedurally generated and fully destructible, allowing players to place or remove more than 20 different block types. While...
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Folks are placing ridiculous orders to confuse and confound Taco Bell's AI ordering system. Prank orders, such as this one for 18,000 watercups, will confuse the AI and prompt it to direct you to a human. It didn't take long for people to figure this out, and while AI...
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After years leaning on OpenAI’s foundation models, Microsoft’s in-house AI division has this week underlined the software giant’s determination to strike out on its own. On Thursday, after months of speculation that something important was coming, Microsoft AI finally...
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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson accused Google of using 'partisan' spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder while delivering Democratic emails to inboxes. From a report: Ferguson sent a letter yesterday to Alphabet ...
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A tourist in Glacier National Park was saved when their friend sprayed capsicum on a bear. I've always been interested in just how effective 'bear spray' really is. Having been told to carry it on many hikes, I always have; however, stories from Los Angeles law enforcement...
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Kash Patel, the wild-eyed MAGA personality given the job of FBI director, has a girlfriend 'half his age' who has attracted the displeasure of conservative ex-FBI podcaster Kyle Seraphin. Alexis Wilkins, 26, is now suing Seraphin for defamation over comments suggesting she...
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Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). From a report: Redmond first told BleepingComputer last week that it is...
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America is repeating its darkest sins: the Army just handed an obscure company $1.2 billion to turn Fort Bliss back into an internment camp. This is a national disgrace. Between 1942 and 1945, over 120,000 Japanese Americans were ripped from their homes and imprisoned. —...
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GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers Chipmaker AMD is looking into a report from the GMP project about two Ryzen processors that failed during testing. Could too much math be to blame?…
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