A dad who lost his sense of taste and smell for years after catching covid has had both senses restored – thanks to specially-developed chewing gum

UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’

Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years

weiter so, Magnus!

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Android 16 has a silent VPN bug Google hasn't fixed for months, claim multiple VPN providers

BanRay.eu – a public service announcement and sticker campaign for prohibiting AI wearables in public spaces, with detailed citations

For the first time in history researchers at CERN have transported 92 antiprotons on a truck in a specially designed magnetic enclosure

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job

The rise and fall of the player piano indicates a robust demand for human labor that machines cannot replace

Binance is hoping that suing (PDF) The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups

long-time information security professional "went undercover" on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents — and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot

Vicarious Visions, facing $1 million in debt, saved the company by pitching 'fake' screenshots of a 3D Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for the Game Boy Advance

nice!

Stretches Every Writer & Office Worker Needs for Neck, Back & Wrist. SLYT. Afer a long day scrolling Metafilter..um, working hard at a desk job, give yourself a stretch break

Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. A recent analysis by Buzzstream shows that 79% of the top 100 news websites are blocking at least one crawler used for AI training, such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot

Musk's AI startup xAI reported a net loss of $1.46 billion for the September quarter, up from $1 billion in the previous quarter, according to a Bloomberg News report

I've argued for some time that AI models are at an interesting cul-de-sac. There are least three reasons

Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test

Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent

A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where trichloroethylene (TCE) had contaminated the water supply for approximately 35 years, against those at Camp Pendleton in California, which has clean water. Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's.