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A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

wired.com Taylor Lorenz 2025-10-31 20:00:00

In a private group chat in June, dozens of Democratic political influencers discussed whether to take advantage of an enticing opportunity. They were being offered $8,000 per month to take part in a secretive program aimed at bolstering Democratic messaging on the internet. But the contract sent to them from Chorus, the nonprofit arm of a liberal influencer marketing platform, came with some strings. Among other issues, it mandated extensive secrecy about disclosing their payments and had restr

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When to Stream 'South Park' Season 27, Episode 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 22:47:00

Comedy Central Predicting what will happen in a South Park episode is hard, but anticipating when a new installment will stream might be even tougher. The hit satirical series had its season 27 premiere date pushed by two weeks and then announced its second installment would drop two weeks after the first. Since then, it's become customary for new episodes to air every other week. While we don't have additional details on what the next South Park will entail, another aspect of the show is mor

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Detection of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Parasite in U.S. Traveler Raises Alarms

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-01 19:35:42

A flesh-eating parasite is creeping north from Mexico and Central America, spurring the U.S. to launch an aggressive eradication plan. Despite these efforts, a patient recently contracted the country’s first travel-associated case of New World screwworm infestation. On Sunday, August 24, Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon told Reuters that health officials confirmed the case on August 4 in a Maryland resident who recently returned from a trip to El Salvador. David

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4 apps you should use instead of Headspace

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 02:00:26

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Headspace is arguably the most popular meditation app around, with millions of users across 200 countries. I’ve used it extensively, and there’s a lot to like. It was one of the first super-successful apps in this category, paving the way for countless others that followed. However, Headspace isn’t perfect. For many, the cost is a major hurdle. It’s one of the pricier options available and offers limited free content beyond its initial trial period. I decide

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Spotify and YouTube Music test out their sleek new look on Android Auto (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 02:07:23

TL;DR Google introduced new media app templates as part of its Android for Cars App Library update. These templates bring a redesigned “Now Playing” UI with a new Material 3 Expressive seekbar. The templated media apps are currently in closed beta, but we’ve managed to get an early look at them on Spotify and YouTube Music. At Google I/O 2025, Google announced new media app templates that are now part of the Android for Cars App Library. Media apps can use these templates to provide a consist

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Imgur protest covers the front page in anti-MediaLab memes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-03 12:55:03

Despite all the division and controversy rife in the modern era, sometimes the Internet does manage to collectively agree on something. Right now, they agree that they hate Imgur parent company MediaLab. After being acquired by MediaLab in 2021, the once famously open-to-anything image-sharing service began placing restrictions on content in 2023. More recently, the site has experienced service issues, including problems with notifications. Many members of the Imgur community have claimed that

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Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-03 21:27:39

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Last week, Google AI pioneer Jad Tarifi sparked controversy when he told Business Insider that it no longer makes sense to get a medical degree — since, in his telling, artificial intelligence will render such an education obsolete by the time you're a practicing doctor. Companies have long touted the tech as a way to free up the time of overworked doctors and even aid them in specialized skills, including scanning medical imagery for tumors. Hospitals ha

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Elon Musk Sues Apple, OpenAI Over iPhone AI Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 17:03:24

Katelyn Chedraoui Writer I Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content we consume on social media and affecting the people behind the screens. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in media and journalism. You can reach her at [email protected].

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Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-04 22:00:00

Robomart, a startup that builds self-driving delivery robots, is unveiling its latest robot with an ambitious goal of using it to make on-demand delivery profitable. The Los Angeles-based company announced its patented Robomart RM5 on Monday. The level-four autonomous vehicle can carry up to 500 pounds and is made up of 10 individual lockers that hold customer orders. This structure is designed to allow for batch ordering so a robot can work on multiple deliveries at the same time. Robomart pl

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A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-05 14:00:14

When searching for the unknown, classic physics wisdom holds that a bigger detector boosts the chances of discovery. A physicist is taking that advice to heart, advancing a bold plan to use none other than Ganymede—Jupiter’s largest moon—as a dark matter detector on an astronomical scale. Dark matter refers to the “invisible” mass that supposedly constitutes 85% of the universe. There’s considerable evidence that dark matter exists, but it’s “dark,” meaning it doesn’t respond to light and very

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Best Toaster Ovens for Your Kitchen in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 15:50:00

Colin West McDonald/CNET I set out to cook a wide variety of common toaster oven fodder. With the exception of the toast tests, where I looked at each toaster oven's individual settings for light, medium and dark toast, I used standardized temperature and cook times and followed the recommendations on the box for whatever I was cooking, wherever possible. Toasting capabilities: Speed and consistency Making toast is one of the critical tasks for a toaster. I mean, it's right there in the name.

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Best Innerspring Mattress in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 12:28:00

All online brands offer a free trial, free shipping and a warranty, but some brands are more generous with their policies than others. Motion isolation, edge support and temperature are important features for couples or people who sleep hot to consider. Hot sleepers should consider a mattress that boasts special cooling features. Couples want minimal motion transfer and a strong, supportive bed perimeter. Hybrid mattresses tend to be best for people who want extra support and durability. Sleep

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Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 05:59:02

13 min read For over two decades, we've built real-time communication on the Internet using a patchwork of specialized tools. RTMP gave us ingest. HLS and DASH gave us scale. WebRTC gave us interactivity. Each solved a specific problem for its time, and together they power the global streaming ecosystem we rely on today. But using them together in 2025 feels like building a modern application with tools from different eras. The seams are starting to show—in complexity, in latency, and in the f

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Apple TV+: Vera Farmiga joins upcoming basketball-themed comedy co-produced by LeBron James

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-06 17:12:13

Apple Studios is developing an untitled movie based on Weekend Rebels, a 2023 German comedy-drama about a father and his autistic son in search of a favorite Premier League club. Here are the details. Apple’s version will be co-produced by the original producers of the original film As reported by Deadline, Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Boogie Nights) was already attached to the project, and now he’ll be joined by Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring, Bates Motel). Deadline’s sources also say that, whi

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TikTok denies India comeback after reports of website going live

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-06 17:59:43

TikTok has not been unbanned in India, TechCrunch confirmed Friday, despite brief website access that sparked media reports of a possible comeback after more than five years. A TikTok spokesperson told TechCrunch that the Chinese-owned social media platform’s ban by the Indian government remains in place, and the short-video platform is not accessible in the country. “We have not restored access to TikTok in India and continue to comply with the Government of India’s directive,” the spokespers

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AI Is Taking Over Our Social Media Feeds, but Maybe Not How You Expect

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 05:25:00

You don't have to be chronically online to know that generative AI has infiltrated nearly every part of our online lives. Social media is no exception: Meta's AI chatbot pushes its way into search on Instagram and Facebook, and Grok offers chat and content creation on X. AI video generation features have emerged on Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok. Beyond its reach to users, artificial intelligence is increasingly significant behind the scenes as a professional tool for social media brands and crea

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Bank Fires Workers in Favor of AI Chatbot, Rehires Them After Chatbot Is Terrible at the Job

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-07 22:40:04

Companies all over the world are currently racing to shrink their workforces and replace them with AI. Often, it seems, this isn’t working out for the firms involved. Case in point: A bank in Australia recently did so, but then had to ask its workers to come back after it turned out that the chatbot that it had launched to replace them couldn’t cut the mustard. Last month, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced that it would be laying off 45 customer service workers as it rolled out a new

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Founder of Google's Generative AI Team Says Don't Even Bother Getting a Law or Medical Degree, Because AI's Going to Destroy Both Those Careers Before You Can Even Graduate

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 03:13:58

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence at Google is warning the potential doctors and lawyers of tomorrow that AI might steal their futures. In an interview with Business Insider, Jad Tarifi — the 42-year-old founder of Google's first generative AI team who left in 2021 to found his own startup, Integral AI — suggested that ever-improving AI capabilities may soon make getting advanced degrees in law or medicine an exercise in futility. With so many people seeking further education as t

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Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-14 06:36:33

It's no secret that social media has devolved into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful pressure to come up with effective guardrails and enforceable policies, social media platforms quickly turned into rage-filled and polarizing echo chambers with one purpose: to keep users hooked on outrage and brain rot so they can display more ads. And given the results of a recent experiment by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, they may be doomed to stay tha

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Plex urges users to update Media Server after fixing a ‘potential security issue’

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-14 08:16:03

Plex, the popular app for organizing and streaming personal media collections, is warning users running certain Plex Media Server versions to update immediately due to a “potential security issue” that was recently patched. Here are the details. Urgent fix, no details As reported by BleepingComputer (via Tecnoblog), Plex is reaching out to users running server versions 1.41.7.x through 1.42.0.x, and urging them to update to Plex Media Server 1.42.1.10060 as soon as possible. The company’s e-m

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Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

news.ycombinator.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-14 21:30:57

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-11-15 08:15:29

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children. As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children. The accounts of abuse span facilities in 25 states and include Pu

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Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-15 12:14:22

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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NY Business Council discloses data breach affecting 47,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-16 08:04:08

The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS) has revealed that attackers who breached its network in February stole the personal, financial, and health information of over 47,000 individuals. As the state's largest statewide employer association, BCNYS represents over 3,000 member organizations, including chambers of commerce, professional and trade associations, and other local and regional business organizations, as well as some of the largest corporations worldwide, which employ more than

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How to Build a Medieval Castle

news.ycombinator.com Ben O'Donnell 2025-11-16 16:49:35

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon Castle’s ornate Chapel Tower. All that remained was to install some glass. But there was a problem, and the carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, basket weavers, historians, and archaeologists who work on-site were all enlisted to figure it out. Eight years later, the matter of what to put in the wind

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Patients trust AI's medical advice over doctors - even when it's wrong, study finds

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-18 17:33:00

TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Science Photo Library via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways People can't tell AI-generated from doctor responses. However, people trust AI responses more than those from doctors. Integrating AI into clinical practice must be a nuanced approach. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. There's a crisis due to a lack of doctors in the US. In the October issue of the prestigious New England J

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Another ‘Lord of the Rings’ Icon May Return for ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-18 17:00:34

Alan Cumming teases his time filming Avengers: Doomsday. The team behind High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is returning to Disney for a new supernatural dramedy. Plus, Frank Grillo teases Rick Flag Sr.’s arc in Peacemaker season 2. Spoilers, assemble! Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Speaking at a convention in London called For the Love of Fantasy, Ian McKellen seemingly confirmed that Frodo will appear alongside Gandalf in Andy Serkis’ Gollum prequel (although it wasn’t conf

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The Tweens Down Under: Life Without Social Media in Australia

wired.com Charley Locke 2025-11-19 12:00:00

Starting on December 10, many Australian teenagers will no longer be as online as their peers in other countries. The Social Media Minimum Age Bill, passed in 2024, stipulates that a person must be at least 16 years old to have an account on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. Across the world, people young and old are increasingly recognizing the negative impacts that social media has on adolescents. Nearly half of teenagers in the US claim these platforms harm people thei

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Why the former editor of Polygon is making a podcast for old gamers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-19 04:30:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. In a recent episode of Post Games, host Chris Plante explores how video games can help players understand death. He’s interviewing Kaitlin Tremblay, who is working on Ambrosia Sky, a game about death. “What is it about games that is so useful for exploring the topic?” Plante asks. “I think there’s something really lovely about the way in which games invite players in,” Tremb

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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 14:08:50

FFmpeg README FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata. Libraries libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs. provides implementation of a wider range of codecs. libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access. implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access. libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility fu

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