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- + Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence—experts want it to stop—The actual recommendations might surprise you—along with the state of ...
- + People think they already know everything they need to make decisions—When given partial info, most people felt confident they knew all they...
- + Two comets will be visible in the night skies this month—Halloween visitors from the distant Oort Cloud. [Category: Science, as...
- + SpaceX catches returning rocket in mid-air, turning a fanciful idea into reality—"Starships are meant to fly. It sure as hell flew today. So let’s get ...
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- + Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content—New text-to-video tool focuses on video pros, made with content owner ...
- + The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online—Wayback Machine back in read-only mode after DDoS, may need further ma...
- + Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.—A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code c...
- + Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys?—Partying robots spark debate about accuracy of Musk's "biggest product...
- + AMD unveils powerful new AI chip to challenge Nvidia—AMD CEO Lisa Su on the MI325X: "This is the beginning, not the end of ...
- + Join Ars in DC for infrastructure, cocktails, and spycraft on October 29—On the discussion agenda: Privacy, compliance, and making infrastructu...
- + Archive.org, a repository of the history of the Internet, has a data breach—31 million records containing email addresses and password hashes expo...
- + Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test.—With China's AI video generators pushing memes into weird territory, i...
- + Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices—It's hard enough creating one air-gap-jumping tool. GoldenJackal did i...
- + In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize—Hinton, who quit Google in 2023 to warn of AI dangers, was "flabbergas...
- + Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram—App swears there's no way for law enforcement to track users' identiti...
- + OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click—New side-by-side document and code-editing feature catches up with Ant...
- + Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo—A future where realistic video fakes are easy and plentiful seems inev...
- + Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021—The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to f...
- + Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse—Microsoft brings two new opt-in trial features to some users of its Co...
- + Attackers exploit critical Zimbra vulnerability using cc’d email addresses—When successful, attacks install a backdoor. Getting it to work reliab...
- + OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion—OpenAI has nearly doubled what investors think it's worth—but there's ...
- + Crook made millions by breaking into execs’ Office365 inboxes, feds say—Email accounts inside 5 US companies unlawfully breached through passw...
- + OpenAI unveils easy voice assistant creation at 2024 developer event—Altman steps back from the keynote limelight and lets four major API a...
- + “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says—Broadcom "preventing some vendors from selling products to us," ATT al...
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- + New Study Looks at the Potential Carcinogenicity of 3D Printing—Weve all heard stories of the dangers of 3D printing, with fires from ...
- + The Greengate DS:3 Part 2: Putting a Retro Sampler to use—The Greengate DS:3 had been re-created in the form of the Goodgreat. N...
- + Solving a Retrocomputing Mystery with an Album Cover: Greengate DS:3—[Bea Thurman] had a retro music conundrum. She loved the classic Green...
- + Calculating the True Per Part Cost for Injection Molding vs 3D Printing—At what point does it make sense to 3D print a part compared to opting...
- + The Biological Motors That Power Our Bodies—Most of us will probably be able to recall at least vaguely that a mol...
- + Using the 555 for Everything—The 555 timer is one of the most versatile integrated circuits availab...
- + Alphabet Soup: Haskell’s Single-Letter Naming Quirks—When you used punch cards or tape to write a computer program, brief v...
- + Portable Pi Palmtop Provides Plenty—Weve seen many portable laptops using the Raspberry Pi series of board...
- + DIY 3D-Printed Arduino Self-Balancing Cube—Self-balancing devices present a unique blend of challenge and innovat...
- + Hackaday Links: October 13, 2024—So far, food for astronauts hasnt exactly been haute cuisine. Freeze-d...
- + A Homebrew Gas Chromatograph That Won’t Bust Your Budget—Chances are good that most of us will go through life without ever hav...
- + Retro Wi-Fi on a Dime: Amiga’s Slow Lane Connection—In a recent video, [Chris Edwards] delves into the past, showing how h...
- + Building An Automotive Load Dump Tester—For those who have not dealt with the automotive side of electronics b...
- + Levitating Magnet In A Spherical Copper Cage—Lenzs Law is one of those physics tricks that look like magic if you d...
- + A VIC-20 with no VIC—[DrMattRegan] has started a new video series to show his latest recrea...
- + All System Prompts for Anthropic’s Claude, Revealed—For as long as AI Large Language Models have been around (well, for as...
- + Solar Planes Are Hard—A regular comment we see on electric aircraft is to just add solar pan...
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- + Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt—This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Disgruntle...
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- + Intel vs. AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm: What the Hell Happened?—Let’s examine how Intel's trajectory has changed over the past two dec...
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- + Diplomats expelled as Canada accuses India of engaging in 'serious' crime—A diplomatic situation involving "serious criminal activity" by India'...
- + Suspect arrested after FEMA pauses Hurricane Helene work in North Carolina over threats—FEMA said it paused Hurricane Helene assistance operations in some Nor...
- + Jury selection nearly complete in Indiana trial of Richard Allen, accused of killing teen girls—Jury selection got underway Monday for Richard Allen, who has been acc...
- + Lilly Ledbetter, equal wages activist who inspired Fair Pay Act, dies at 86—Lilly Ledbetter, who championed women's rights and equal pay, has died...
- + Investor group Elliott calls for December election for 8 Southwest Airlines board seats—The investment hedge fund Elliott has called for a December special me...
- + Hurricane center forecasters keep eye on another potential storm system in Atlantic—Hurricane center forecasters are watching another potential tropical d...
- + Berlin court sentences former Stasi secret police officer to 10 years for 1978 border shooting—A former officer of the East German secret police was found guilty by ...
- + Israeli strikes hit building in northern Lebanon, killing 21 displaced people—Israeli jets hit an apartment building in a Christian town in northern...
- + EU slaps 14 sanctions on Iranian officials, other entities for allegedly providing missiles to Russia—The Council of the European Union revealed new sanctions on Monday on ...
- + FEMA pauses work in some parts of North Carolina amid threats—FEMA said it has paused Hurricane Helene assistance operations in some...
- + Amnesty International calls for Biden to free Leonard Peltier, longest-serving U.S. 'political prisoner'—Amnesty renewed calls for President Joe Biden to grant clemency to jai...
- + Complicated jury selection begins for accused killer of teen girls in Delphi, Ind.—Jury selection got underway Monday for Richard Allen, who has been acc...
- + 1 dead, 23 injured when train runs into fallen tree in New Jersey—A New Jersey Transit train that left the state capitol of Trenton stru...
- + British PM Starmer inaugurates U.K. Investment Summit with vow to 'rip up' red tape—British Prime Minister Keir Starmer kicked off an international busine...
- + 11 sickened in Pennsylvania mushroom 'mass casualty' event—Eleven people in central Pennsylvania have been hospitalized, includin...
- + U.S. trio wins Nobel Prize in economic sciences for study of societal institutions' impact—Three U.S.-based economists have won the Nobel Prize in economic scien...
- + Kamala Harris' campaign releases agenda to support Black men—Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Monday her campaign's agenda...
- + Public inquiry opens in Britain in to death of woman caught up in Russian nerve agent attack—An independent public inquiry got underway in Britain in to the fatal ...
- + North Korea preparing for detonation of roads near DMZ: Seoul—North Korea is preparing to set off explosions on roads connected to S...
- + Surge of disaster scams often follow severe storms, agencies warn—Several federal agencies and non-governmental organizations have raise...
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- + Milton Disrupted the Flow of Drinking Water—so Florida Deployed a Machine to Harvest It From Air—A Tampa-based company that makes atmospheric water generators and the ...
- + The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over—“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passw...
- + 7 Best Bug Sprays We Tested and Reviewed—Our writer tried some of the most popular insect repellents during run...
- + SpaceX’s Dramatic Rocket Catch Brings Interplanetary Travel One Step Closer—By proving that its Super Heavy booster can return to Earth and land, ...
- + 7 Tips for Mastering ‘Metaphor: ReFantazio’—Studio Zero’s new RPG is a massive adventure with a lot to do. Here’s ...
- + These Apps Help People With Disabilities Travel Smarter and Safer—For the disability community, technology can be the most valuable trav...
- + The Hottest Startups in Dublin in 2024—The Irish capital's embrace of big tech is filtering through to its st...
- + The Hottest Startups in Madrid in 2024—The Spanish capital is drawing talent from Latin America, and its eye-...
- + The Hottest Startups in Helsinki in 2024—The Finnish capital's most exciting startups are building nuclear-powe...
- + The Hottest Startups in Lisbon in 2024—The Portuguese capital's most exciting startups include a platform to ...
- + The Hottest Startups in Amsterdam in 2024—There are around 4,000 startups in Amsterdam—the best 10 are tackling ...
- + The Hottest Startups in Paris in 2024—The French capital has become the home of Europe's growing AI industry...
- + The Hottest Startups in Zurich in 2024—The Swiss capital might be most associated with fintech, but its start...
- + The Hottest Startups in Stockholm in 2024—The Swedish capital produced Skype, Spotify, Klarna and Minecraft—its ...
- + Europe’s Innovation Ecosystem Can Make It the New Palo Alto—A cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London c...
- + The Hottest Startups in Berlin in 2024—The German capital attracts talent from all over the world, and its st...
- + The Hottest Startups in London in 2024—The UK capital's most exciting startups showcase its strengths in biot...
- + 11 Best Lubes of 2024, Tested and Reviewed—For the most sensitive parts of the human body, friction is the enemy....
- + MSI Vision Elite RS Review: A Vision of Gaming Perfection—With S-tier horsepower and a gorgeous, curved glass case, this is one ...
- + On Running Cloudboom Strike LS Review: More Bounces for Less Ounces—The On Running Cloudboom Strike LS marathon shoes are sprayed together...
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