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The Cleveland Clinic and startup Piramidal are developing an AI model trained on brain wave data to monitor intensive care patients.
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It’s a bit of a silly post, because syntax is the least interesting d detail about the language, but, still, I can’t stop thinking how Zig gets this detail just right for the class of curly-braced languages, and, well, now you’ll have to think about that too. On the...
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Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley tells WIRED he imagined the planet’s future based on his fears as a parent about the present, from dystopian capitalism to the “moral horror” of growing up.
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Lucky for fans of the popular Linux operating system, Debian has released version 13, codenamed “trixie,” marking the project’s first stable release in over two years. Supported for the next five years by the Debian Security and Long Term Support teams, trixie delivers ...
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Elwood Edwards, the voice actor famous as the voice of AOL ('You've got Mail!'), passed away last year at 74. And now AOL's dial-up internet service will join him in death. An announcement posted to its website set the last day as September 29. — Read the rest The post AOL...
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China has begun construction of a $167 billion hydropower facility on Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo River that would generate triple the output of the Three Gorges Dam. The project employs a run-of-the-river design, drilling deep tunnels through mountains to bypass the Yarlung...
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The U.K. is implementing its so-called Online Safety Act, a legal smorgasbord of controls, restrictions, regulations and censorious follies of the kind likely to make quick fools of the censors. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, challenged relevant parts of ...
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A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms! From the department of 'Want to feel old?' comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access.…
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The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements for online platforms and has been criticized for potentially curtailing free speech. From a report: The Wikimedia Foundation took legal...
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New data from Check Point Research reveals a sharp rise in cyberattacks globally, with business services, healthcare, and manufacturing among the hardest hit sectors. Ransomware incidents in particular have surged, with 487 attacks reported in July, a 41 percent increase...
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Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests - mostly about removal of model choice - following the rollout of GPT-5.…
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Ashampoo has released UnInstaller 16 for Windows, allowing users to fully remove programs and apps with minimal effort. The latest version promises more thorough cleaning than the standard Windows tools, giving users greater control over installations while maintaining...
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Best Buy has its Apple islands, and soon it will have Ikea forts in its big-box stores. The miniature Ikeas will pitch the Swedish giant's home appliances and kitchen design services. The new in-store collaboration will launch in 10 stores throughout Florida and Texas,...
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These subtle WIRED-tested devices help wearers keep their hearing loss to themselves.
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Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig...
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Threat actors are favoring smaller, persistent attacks under 100,000 requests per second according to a new report. This shift signals a growing dependence on automated, generative AI-enhanced attack tools, reflecting the democratization of DDoS capabilities among loosely...
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Following France, Britain and Canada's announcements in recent days, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it will recognize the Palestinian state at next month's U.N. General Assembly. Albanese told reporters after a Cabinet meeting Monday that Australia's...
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By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money DEF CON While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON – there were a lot of people using the F-word too:...
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Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.…
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Though perhaps not the most memorable thing from Alien (1979), the chunky old-school computer systems, with their glowing green text and electromechanical noises, are a wonder. They still strike me as futuristic, somehow, not least because we're finally learning to fear...
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