Engineers Create Superglue That Bonds in 10 Seconds, Holds For Years And Gets Stronger Underwater. Don’t get it in your eyes!
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Farmer Trusted AI After It Gave Good Advice, Then It Helped Wipe Out 25 Acres of His Crops. What? You can't trust AI on mission-critical problems? Who knew? And I notice that the article doesn't mention which chatbot it was. I bet it was a Chinese model.
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Perverse incentives. Senators urge end to online bets on wildfires. If you had a lot of money riding on whether there would or would not be a wildfire, what would you do? Gotta protect your investment, right? Yeah, it's not climate change.
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Anthropic is planning on a $2 trillion IPO this October. I already know how the trajectory of the stock is going to go.
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Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes. Some people already claim to have defeated it. I think it will be illustrative to see how many have the mark. 😂
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Toddler’s tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors. The kid was from Washington state. Making the diagnosis is incredibly difficult, but it highlights the need for doctors to refer as soon as they reach the end of their expertise. Still, the 30 days it took to get the diagnosis is not excessive. It's not like you can get in to see the next expert right away. Hopefully AI can help with this, but it has a long way to go.
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Zoom has a zero-click vulnerability. It's now been 6 years since COVID and we still don't have a reliable video conferencing platform. Shame.
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SquashImage compresses your image files without (noticeably) degrading the image. Could come in handy.
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Protect your email address. It's a major part of your identity, in a sense. It's great to have some ability to create disposable email addresses.
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Over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers. But they love AI, search engines, and tech functionality that is based on AI.
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Review of the latest: The July 2026 Model Wave: GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5, Kimi K3, and GLM-5.2 Compared.
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Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object – a black hole ‘star’ The size of a solar system, glowing a brilliant red. I can't envision this.
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The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night. I think this is being approached the wrong way. I think the orexin approach will be more satisfactory.
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In Oregon, a school district can legally seize your property if it wants it. As a Lake Oswego chuch is learning to its dismay.
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Oregon education funding committee recommends increasing school spending by $2.5B to $5B. The Oregon education system is just a monster that keeps growing. Doing less, but insisting on being fed.
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