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    Prime Video pulls eerily emotionless AI-generated anime dubs after complaints

    Ew, subbed anime. You lose so much of the original artistic intent for the sake of convenience. Even high quality translations convey very little of the nuance from the original language. The cultural choices of how to structure a sentence often seem weird to me when watching English or French...
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    Google’s new weather model impressed during its first hurricane season

    We just need to build an AI to interpret the internal workings of the AI and explain it to us mortals. For a mere $30 trillion in funding, I promise to do just that. And I definitely won't skip town with only 1% of the money and leave the other 99% hidden behind a some sort of advanced riddle...
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    Meta says porn downloads on its IPs were for “personal use,” not AI training

    No, Mom! I swear I wasn't training an LLM! I was just jerking it to Hot Milf on Milf Anal Timestop porn!
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    Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women

    So, if my translator is correct, what you're trying to say is: Sorry if that's wrong. My first language is actually English.
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    ChatGPT users outraged as GPT-5 replaces the models they love

    I can't decide if the reason why I've completely failed to adopt "AI" in my everyday life is because I've finally become "an old" who can't keep up with technology, because it's just not a great product, or because it's just not particularly useful to me personally. Probably some combination of...
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    Cybersecurity take a big hit in new Trump executive order

    Almost sounds like they're expecting the investigation into the voting machine tampering to yield something damning... I've never really bought into that whole conspiracy, but that wording is pretty fucked...
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    Cybersecurity take a big hit in new Trump executive order

    Nah. It's dumber than that. "If someone I don't like did it, then it's inherently bad." Keep in mind, that Trump decides whether he likes someone entirely based on whether they kiss his ass or not. So good ideas can only come from ass kissers and all ass kisser ideas are invariably good...
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    Robotaxis burn in Los Angeles in backlash to immigration raids

    If Trump declares this an "insurrection" in order to expand his power, then the company won't be able to claim insurance on any damages given that most insurance coverage comes with an insurrection clause. Fun stuff.
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    Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections

    "we couldn't find a cost-effective way to literally turn your meat-friends into advertisements. But don't worry. We found a workaround."
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    Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates

    The authors seem to be laboring under the mistaken assumption that the intent of these laws is actually to protect "the children" rather than their actual goal of slow rolling a complete absence of privacy and the establishment of absolute authoritarian control over our lives. Porn is just the...
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    Have we accidentally bred some dogs for obesity?

    As someone who used to work in a kennel in my younger days, I can assure you that pretty much anyone who works with enough dogs could tell you that Chocolate labs are prone to a large number of weird health and behavioral problems like neuroticism and aggression. Compared to black and yellow...
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    Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot

    We recently made the decision to completely isolate all of our machines from any sort of network and transfer all patient data via USB. It's not really about security (which I'll get to in a second), but rather about preventing annoying technical issues caused by using old but functional...
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    After decades of talk, Seagate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives

    I am not particularly knowledgeable in this area at all, but I struggle to imagine how any data storage tech that looked promising 20 years ago would still being relevant in the present day. I'll be happy to be proven wrong. It's just odd to think about given the speed of development in...
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    Prenatal test accidentally picks up cancer in 50% of those with wonky results

    I know someone who was in this study at the NIH! Her test came back looking weird and her doctor wanted her to get a full body scan to check for cancer, but the only way she could get it done was at the NIH, since it was otherwise considered a "fishing expedition". They ended up catching the...
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    Amazon secretly slowed deliveries, deceived anyone who complained, lawsuit says

    I've noticed a particularly infuriating trend with my own amazon deliveries. If I have it delivered directly to my address, the estimated delivery time will sometimes be four or five days later. If I change the address to the whole foods a mile away, the delivery will now magically be shortened...
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    Amazon’s Mass Effect TV series is actually going to be made

    Eh. You could definitely do a story set within the Mass Effect universe without sticking to the script of the trilogy. There's enough of a well constructed and detailed universe that pretty much any plot that would make for a compelling story in another context could be adapted to fit it and...
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    For fame or a death wish? Kids’ TikTok challenge injuries stump psychiatrists

    The benedryl one is interesting to me. When I was a kid, we knew that it was possible to get "high" on benedryl, but it wasn't a challenge, and it was always pretty explicitly clear that it wasn't a fun high. It was just weird. Like having a really high fever. (I tried it once just because I was...