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Thursday June 19, 2025. 08:00 PM
Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC reported Thursday. From the report: The tech company is turning to its catalog of 20 billion YouTube videos to train these new-age...
A historical document is up for auction through Bonhams: Einstein's most thorough statement on his involvement with the atomic bomb, expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 when bidding concludes in June 2025. This typed manuscript, signed by Einstein himself,...
Border Patrol detained a pregnant Angeleno for questioning their practices. US citizen Cary López Alvarado stood up to Border Patrol for arresting her boyfriend and her cousin. Though pregnant and complaining of discomfort, she was put in chains and detained. Luckily, she ...
Simon Willison, commenting on the recent paper from Apple researchers that found state-of-the-art large language models face complete performance collapse beyond certain complexity thresholds: I thought this paper got way more attention than it warranted -- the title 'The...
A Texas woman has been arrested after surprising her ex-boyfriend with an officiated marriage certificate. A 42-year-old Texas man contacted the police to report he was married without his consent. He had intended to marry his ex-girlfriend, 36-year-old Kristin Marie...
Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue A European court has advised [PDF] that Google's appeal against a ruling that found it had abused its market dominance should be dismissed.…
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve is holding steady and waiting to see how severe the inflation caused by Trump's failing economic policy will be. Powell also denied Donnie Two-Pencils' claim that the tariffs will not affect consumers. The baffling economic war declared...
Apple software chief Craig Federighi has ruled out bringing macOS to the iPad, amusingly using a kitchen utensil analogy to explain the company's design philosophy. 'We don't want to create a boat car or, you know, a spork,' Federighi said in an interview. 'Someone said, 'If ...
Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the authors call a 'framekernel architecture'. The project overlaps somewhat with the goals of the Rust for Linux project, but approaches the problem space from a different direction by...
Feds told they can't demand a haystack to find a needle The United States is requesting [PDF] a month-long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge's ruling that obtaining tower dumps is unconstitutional.…
A Hong Kong company developing herbal treatments for ADHD has seen its stock price surge over 56,000% this year following a 38-for-1 stock split, despite having no revenue and ongoing losses. Regencell Bioscience CEO Yat-Gai Au's 86% stake in the company is now worth $25.6...
As the Israel-Iran conflict escalates, Donald Trump huddles with his national security advisors to make a plan — but excludes his own head of defense, Pete Hegseth, from the process. 'Nobody is talking to Hegseth,' one official said, via The Washington Post. — Read the...
The single most prevalent complaint leveled against Hideo Kojima's games since the days of Metal Gear Solid 2 is that they're basically just playable movies anyway. 2008's MGS4 still holds the world record for the longest cutscene in gaming, with its ending wrap-up weighing...
An article recently published in JAMA Pediatrics (or, the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics) presents findings from a study suggesting that Long COVID, a condition where symptoms last at least 3 months and up to several years after a SARS-CoV-2...
Margaret Mitchell, chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face and founder of Google's responsible AI team, has dismissed artificial general intelligence as 'just vibes and snake oil.' Mitchell, who was ousted from Google in 2021, has co-written a paper arguing that AGI should...
This stop motion of a googly-eyed blob by Nick Douillard helped me forget about life's problems for 22 seconds. This little pink blob with a hat and teeth is endlessly captivating as it morphs around into different forms. I wish I could adopt it. — Read the rest The post Th...
A team of scientists from the University of Colorado, Boulder just published an article, 'The non-nutritive sweetener erythritol adversely affects brain microvascular endothelial cell function,' in the Journal of Applied Physiology, warning about the potential risks of the...
Time for another episode of 'game minutiae no one has ever thought about before!' Despite all the discussion about the Switch 2 and its price — to say nothing of the $80 games — the system's sole worthwhile exclusive, Mario Kart World, has nonetheless turned out to be...
In 1853, a Liverpool photographer achieved what seemed impossible at the time. He shrunk a 680-letter memorial plaque to the size of a pencil tip while keeping every character crystal clear under magnification. John Benjamin Dancer was an optical instrument maker in his...
It's no secret that I love a good animal snout, and there's almost no snout more majestic than that of the regal beast affectionately known as a 'Chaos Worm' or a 'Void Horse' (for supreme examples of such creatures, check out one of my favorite Instagram accounts 'Cleo Long ...
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