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For years, schools have posted photos of their pupils online. But could they be misused?
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Virgin Galactic Postpones Its New Spaceship's First Commercial Flight To 2027
Virgin Galactic’s new spaceship won’t be taking tourists to space this year.
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Freddie Fox on Gwayne’s Big ‘House of the Dragon’ Finale Scene
The Hightower who tried to save Tumbleton speaks on his failed attempt at negotiating peace.
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The Google Pixelsnap Charger With Stand Is 50 Percent Off Right Now
Speedy Qi2 wireless charging in a magnetic puck and stand combo makes Google’s Pixelsnap well worth grabbing at half price.
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You Can Now Watch Classic Movies Like The Martian, E.T. And Zodiac On Apple TV
Apple just made around 20 classic movies available for subscribers to stream.
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Anthropic Is Reportedly Looking to Buy This Seemingly Un-Anthropic-Like Startup
Decart is an AI lab's AI lab.
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CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
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Meta Is Giving Away 15,000 AI Glasses To Blind And Visually Impaired People In Ireland
Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to an Irish charity supporting people with sight loss.
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Apple to Reportedly Take Another Stab at Mixing AI and News. We Haven’t Forgotten Last Time’s Disaster
Apple is looking to make long-term AI deals with publishers even though its AI mangled the news less than two years ago.
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There’s a Fatty Liver Epidemic. AI Could Help Get Ahead of It
Over a billion people worldwide have livers with excess fat, which can lead to a host of medical problems. Researchers think AI tools can spot the condition—and help stop it—early enough to save lives.
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Amazon is using Twitch to train generative AI
The streaming platform's users criticised the move to allow the use of channel content for AI training.
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This 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Rewrote the Story of Live Birth
Scientists have long thought cynodonts, the ancestors of all modern mammals, laid eggs. For the first time, researchers have found evidence to the contrary.
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ICE Plans to Give Agents ‘Legend of Korra’-Style Electrified Gloves
Just in terms of having electrified gloves, they're kinda like the villains on a fictional TV show.
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A Rare Two-Player Computer Space Arcade Machine Is Up For Auction
The sparkly cabinet is part of a huge retro tech auction focused on Steve Jobs and the computer revolution.
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The Best Photos of the Big August Solar Eclipse
It’s been a century since the Iberian Peninsula has been in the full shadow of the moon. Here’s what it looked like in the path of totality.
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How To Stop Twitch From Training AI On Your Streams
And why the company didn't make the feature opt-in.
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Bill Gates’ Daughter Knew For Months That Her App Claimed Sales It Didn’t Drive, Report Claims
"whatever we can do to keep these cookies dropping will be amazing thank you," Gates' co-founder allegedly texted an engineer.
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Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.
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Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
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AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO
Lee McIntire, an independent member of Fermi's board, has been hired as CEO, more than three months since the company fired co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top post.
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Claude Cowork Can Now Run In A Chrome Sidebar
Take your conversations with the chatbot into the Anthropic browser extension.
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Grok Gets Cursor-Driven Upgrade, Claims to Be Competitive With Top Models
And unquestionably the one most famous for generating non-consensual nudes.
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Trump Is Being Sued For Charging For Faster Access To Truth Social Posts
A new lawsuit claims the Truth API violates the First and Fifth Amendments.
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The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
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