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Nintendo is seeking a $4.5 million default judgment against r/SwitchPirates moderator James 'Archbox' Williams; frames its request as a "gesture of reasonableness,". The Arizona resident allegedly used Reddit to promote the distribution of hundreds of games through his "pirate shops".

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California

California bans noisy ads on Netflix, YouTube, and other streaming services— Starting next year, streamers will be banned from airing commercials at a louder volume than the content being watched.

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

Newly obtained documents confirm what law enforcement and Flock Safety tried to deny: Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires

Bernie Sanders Releases Report on Big Tech Oligarchs’ War Against Workers, Warns AI Could Eliminate Nearly 100 Million U.S. Jobs

Mic-E-Mouse Your computer mouse has big ears. Image courtesy of GPT4/Dall-E-3, generated using the keywords "computer mouse with big ears and a microphone as a scroll wheel."

New Mic-E-Mouse technique turns your optical mouse into a microphone that records conversations

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

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Latinas remain lowest-paid group in U.S. workforce, despite historic gains in education

Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts MIT engineers have developed a recipe for a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum.

Engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum.

Resecurity | CVE-2025-61882 Mass Exploitation — Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Under Attack by Cl0p Ransomware

CVE-2025-61882 Mass Exploitation — Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Under Attack by Cl0p Ransomware

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account:

"Local-only commands removal: We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE)"

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar chip deal with AMD

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Cancer treatments based on our internal clock could improve outcomes Cancer researcher Chi Van Dang studies pharmacokinetics—the way the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and excretes a drug at different times of day. His work on treatment timing holds prom...

Cancer researcher Chi Van Dang studies pharmacokinetics—the way the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and excretes a drug at different times of day. His work on treatment timing holds promise for improving patient outcomes.

Paired with custom control software, Össur’s powered knee prosthesis helped study participants sit, stand and walk more easily

Seeing double: Clever images open doors for brain research New AI-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists at JHU's Perception & Mind Lab expand their ability to test human perception

New AI-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists at JHU's Perception & Mind Lab expand their ability to test human perception

AI avatars have been in politics for a decade, but Diella is different - AlgorithmWatch Albania’s new “Minister for AI” is an LLM-powered avatar. AI has been touted since at least 2017 to replace politicians, but the Albanian software, which shall be in charge of public procurement, open...

AI avatars have been in politics for a decade, but Diella is different

Albania’s new “Minister for AI” is an LLM-powered avatar.

AI has been touted since at least 2017 to replace politicians, but the Albanian software(in charge of public procurement) opens the gates to corruption on a new scale.

comic strip with two panels showing a man in front of a computer 'I still have time for one more PR. Steve said he just updated some classes.' The next panels shows an old man in front of the same computer 'It has been 30 years... still one class to go... damn you Steve... Damn you Tailwind!'

New comic strip: One Last PR
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He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

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He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks

Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and was starting over. His new life unraveled in a way that nobody could have predicted

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

The body’s immune system must be regulated, or it may attack our own organs. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.

NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil se...

Fire destroys South Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available.

new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process.

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INL researchers boost efficiency of ultrathin solar cells - INL Ultrathin solar cells are a promising path for clean energy: they use far less material, can be manufactured faster, and even applied on flexible or curved surfaces, in comparison with conventional te...

Researchers boost efficiency of ultrathin solar cells

Qualcomm is being sued by "Which?" Consumer group over its illegal dominance abuse.

"The consumer champion believes Qualcomm has breached UK competition law by taking advantage of its dominance in the patent-licensing and chipset markets."

France's new PM Lecornu resigns hours after unveiling new cabinet France's new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned on Monday hours after unveiling his new cabinet, deepening the country's political crisis. The far-right National Rally immediately urged President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election. 

France's new PM Lecornu resigns hours after unveiling new cabinet

Attorney General Bonta: Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Unlawful Redeployment of California National Guard Troops to Portland OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today secured emergency relief from the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon blocking the Trump Administration’s unlawful redeployment of fede...

Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Unlawful Redeployment of California National Guard Troops to Portland

Researchers revive yoghurt made from... ants An old traditional recipe for yoghurt made from ants has been recreated by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. In a new study, they show how ants and the bacteria that live on them can transf...

An old traditional recipe for yoghurt made from ants has been recreated by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. In a new study, they show how ants and the bacteria that live on them can transform milk into yoghurt.

Why you might be paying more for reduced quality at the supermarket The main ingredient in dozens of supermarket products has been reduced, an ABC investigation has found, leading retail and marketing experts to call for more transparency around recipe changes.

The changes hidden within 'cryptic' supermarket ingredient labels— Why you might be paying more for reduced quality at the supermarket