- newTom the Dancing Bug: The Top-Secret Truth about Trump and the Reflecting Pool
Tom the Dancing Bug: The Top-Secret Truth About Trump and the Reflecting Pool-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER H…
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- newHe disclosed ketamine therapy in a trust exercise. Netflix fired him.
Netflix billed the January retreat as a "Vulnerability-Trust exercise," held at Sendero Ranch, a company property in Northern California. Kevin Baillie, then head of creative at Netflix's Eyeline Studios, used his turn to disclose that he'd taken sup…
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- newDuckDuckGo's answer to Meta's smart glasses is regular sunglasses
DuckDuckGo, the search engine that built its whole pitch on not tracking you, now sells a pair of sunglasses. The $35 Paso Robles never needs charging, skips the smartphone app, and works with no internet connection. DuckDuckGo says that's by design,…
- 3 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 4:15pm -
- newYour brain guesses at reality instead of recording it
Your brain isn't showing you the world so much as guessing at it. That's the argument from psychologist Daniel Yon, who runs the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. The brain, Yon writes, works "like a scientist," constantly forming hy…
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- newTurns out, people really like paying for cloud storage only once—get 1TB for just $159.99
TL;DR: Pay $159.99 once (reg. $810) with code KOOFR by 11:59 p.m. PT today and get 1TB of Koofr cloud storage for life—no monthly storage bill required.Cloud storage has become one of those subscriptions most of us forget we're paying for—unti…
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- new"I'm allowed to do this": how attackers talk past AI safeguards
Getting an AI model to launch a cyberattack usually just takes asking the right way. Cisco Talos researchers say that claiming you own the servers you are attacking often works, and so does calling the job a capture-the-flag contest or a bug bounty.…
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- newBuckminster Fuller explains his life's work in 42 hours
Over the last two weeks of January 1975, Buckminster Fuller, the designer who popularized the geodesic dome, gave a series of lectures walking through his entire life's work. "Everything I Know" runs 42 hours. The Buckminster Fuller Institute has pos…
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- newApple wants a judge to stop OpenAI from building its AI device
Apple told a court this week that 11 other former employees may have been witnesses or otherwise involved in its trade secrets case against OpenAI, on top of the two it named in the original complaint. Apple is also asking the judge to stop OpenAI fr…
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- newThe Mummy poster banned from London Underground
The ad campaign for Lee Cronin's The Mummy, a gritty new take on the public domain monster, has been partially unraveled by advertising regulators in the U.K. In upholding a complaint about the movie's posters, the Advertising Standards Authority det…
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- newGrokipedia already an abandoned slagheap of slop
Grokipedia, representing Elon Musk's committment and dedication to countering Wikipedia's supposedly leftist bias, stopped reviewing edits in April. Lawfare Media writes that "as far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," an…
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