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    Doctors blast Trump for doubling down on vaccine policy modeled after Denmark

    🤮 ...that's enough Internet for today.
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    Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad

    Reaction of shareholders to being told that line will not go up indefinitely:
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    New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

    More likely, they answered by saying that only nerds care about that kind of stuff.
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    New teaser gives us first look at Godzilla Minus Zero

    That would be Gojira (1954). The Godzilla movie released in 1955 was ゴジラの逆襲 (Godzilla's Counterattack), infamously localized as Gigantis the Fire Monster, and the first movie where Godzilla fought a rival kaiju.
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    Hachette pulls Shy Girl horror novel after concerns about AI use

    Go and read something on the level of "Empress Theresa" and then try extolling the virtues of "absolute garbage" once more. Just as AI can't create truly great prose, it can't create appallingly terrible prose, either.
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    Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to

    The vast majority of Japanese bread as sold in supermarkets is amazingly bland, yes. There are some great bakeries though, but the prices make it feel more like a luxury than a staple.
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    Trump’s DOJ seems annoyed about having to approve T-Mobile’s latest merger

    ...but the Japanese government doesn't run the wireless network in Japan? The mobile infrastructure here is run by the private carriers like docomo and Softbank.
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    Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl

    Then I guess they won't complain if 99.9999% of websites blocked them.
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    Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says

    It is my understanding that revenue is the broader term. Revenue: Cash inflow into a company, including sales, investments and other sources. Turnover: Total income from the sale of goods or services before deductions. Reference Munich Business School: Business Studies Dictionary » Financial...
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    Phishing attacks that defeat MFA are easier than ever. So what are we to do?

    You seem to have mistyped "easier" in the title.
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    Elon Musk’s xAI accused of lying to Black communities about harmful pollution

    Its existence was a state secret until after the publication of the novel that the movie was based on. As the author was a Royal Navy Commander in World War II, there is a possibility he might have heard something of the real Colossus, but in that case, he probably would have named it something...
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    White House plagued by Signal controversy as Pentagon in “full-blown meltdown”

    Yes, this reminds me of the movie "Brazil" more than anything else.
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    FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease Marvel blockbusters

    And thanks to Toei's rights to the Spider-man character expiring many years ago, there is literally NO way of seeing this great program legally at all. That is, unless you want to pay close to 600 dollars for a second-hand copy of the Japan-only limited edition box set that Marvel oh so...
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    Dirty diaper resold on Amazon ruined a family business, report says

    Probably someone who thinks they are the shit, but are merely just a shit.
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    Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years

    The hype hikes the share price, which makes the execs' stock options that form much of their compensation even more profitable for them. Edit: Whoops, I accidentally Britished my English.
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    Google Translate just nearly doubled its number of supported languages

    Well, in the case of Japanese to English, the fact that the grammatical subject (not exactly the right term, but close enough) is entirely optional in Japanese means errors as to subject are basically unavoidable. We still don't have MT that can work out what the subject should be as the MT...
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    OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora, a photorealistic AI video generator

    What is the carbon footprint of this system? I can't imagine it is minimal.
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    Fujitsu apologizes for software bugs that fueled wrongful convictions in UK

    I was wondering if maybe bad habits learned from programming on one of the British home computers that were so popular in the 80s might have led to this; but a quick check on an online emulator of a Sinclair Spectrum shows that LET d = -d indeed does what it should.