- newGet lifetime access to the full MS Office 2021 suite for $33
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for just $32.97 (reg. $219.99). If you're a working professional who prefers a traditional, standalone software experience, Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Window…
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- newA viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf
Canned sardines are hard to find in American supermarkets because of a fad diet. Corner of Fifth reports that the diet consists of tinned fish and water, black coffee, or plain tea. It spread on TikTok and YouTube and through keto communities, and…
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- newA Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000
Phyllis Zorn, a reporter at the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion, Kansas to settle her federal lawsuit over the 2023 police raid on the newspaper, reports the Kansas Reflector. Lawyers for Zorn and the city filed the mo…
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- newThe FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuce
Food safety lawyer Bill Marler says the FDA's new guide on fresh-cut produce admits it knows of no chemical wash that stops Cyclospora from spreading between pieces of cut produce.Cyclospora is a parasite hazard in berries, fresh basil, fresh cilan…
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- newYou can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI
The EU AI Act AI outputs to be "detectable as artificially generated" and "embedded within the content in a manner that is difficult for it to be separated from the content." But Sean Goedecke, a software engineer, explains why the European Union'…
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- newThe government now spends more on interest than on the military
The US Treasury sold $25 billion of 30-year bonds at a 5.22 percent yield, the most it has paid to borrow that far out since 2001, reports the Financial Times.That's up from 5.06 percent at July's sale, and 4.91 percent just before Trump's second te…
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- newAdversarial clothing: custom, one-off tees and hoodies that dazzle AI
noRecognition is a line of basic fashion items (tees, hoodies and gaiters) printed with "adversarial" patterns demonstrated to stymie machine vision systems' ability to detect humans. If battleship dazzle for people has been tried many times, this ef…
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- newThe only thing inside an AI is people
In a new StarTalk episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Negin Farsad interviewed Jaron Lanier, the computer scientist who wrote the 2023 New Yorker piece, "There Is No AI."Lanier thinks calling AI a "black box" where nobody knows what's inside t…
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- newApp tells you what USB-C cables are capable of
WhatCable does what your eyes can't: it tells you what a USB-C cable can actually do. 40Gbps transfer? 100W fast charging? DisplayPort Alt Mode? So long as you have macOS and a port to plug it into, this free app will provide detailed specs on any of…
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- newWhen Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu
Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch, Strange Frequencies, and Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons, has spent years thoughtfully exploring the borderlands where occultism, religion, pop culture, and imagination overlap. Writ…
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