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Controversial doc gets measles while treating unvaccinated kids—keeps working
A controversial doctor providing unproven measles treatments to unvaccinated children in West Texas recently contracted the ...
Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild?
The fruit in question is seasonal and comes from Treculia africana trees common across the home environment of the wild ...
White House plagued by Signal controversy as Pentagon in “full-blown meltdown”
According to The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally copied on the initial Signal chat that sparked the backlash, Hegseth shared "precise information about weapons ...
Trump can’t keep China from getting AI chips, TSMC suggests
As the global artificial intelligence (AI) race presses on amid a US-China trade war, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)—a $514 billion titan that manufactures most of the world's ...
Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps
Whisky, a gaming-focused front-end for Wine's Windows compatibility tools on macOS, is no longer receiving updates. As one of the most useful and well-regarded tools in a Mac gamer's toolkit, it could ...
Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone
AI researchers call these yes-man antics "sycophancy," which means (like the non-AI meaning of the word) flattering users by telling them what they want to hear. Although since AI models lack ...
In depth with Windows 11 Recall—and what Microsoft has (and hasn’t) fixed
Microsoft is preparing to reintroduce Recall to Windows 11. A feature limited to Copilot+ PCs —a label that just a fraction of a fraction of Windows 11 systems even qualify for—Recall has been ...
Chrome on the chopping block as Google’s search antitrust trial moves forward
The remedy phase of Google's search antitrust trial is getting underway, and the government is seeking to force major changes. The next few weeks could reshape Google as a company and significantly ...
Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech
Researchers at universities across California and companies, such as New York-based Precision Neuroscience, are among those making headway towards generating naturalistic speech through a combination ...
Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise
They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever ...
Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems
Memory requirements are the most obvious advantage of reducing the complexity of a model's internal weights. The BitNet b1.58 ...
Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.
But the moment demands nothing less. This is not a breeze; this is the whirlwind. And it will leave a state-dependent, ...