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In Brief 1:26 PM PDT · August 1, 2026 Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward, according to NBC News. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank’s ruling focused as much on the timing of xAI’s lawsuit
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Angela Nissel’s latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it’s a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it’s delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me
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When you think of large language models (LLMs), powerful GPUs with dozens or even hundreds of gigabytes of memory likely come to mind. That’s the kind of hardware it takes to run today’s cutting-edge models. It would be hard to imagine this type of algorithm running on a
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Today’s Strands puzzle took me some time, as some of the clues were tough to find. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: Eyes on the prize. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue:
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* ISBNdb ships up to a million books anonymously to AI labs * Pre-2022 books are prized because chatbots never touched their text * Spine-cutting scanners destroy originals to speed up digitization for training AI companies are increasingly turning to printed books published before 2022 as preferred training material because those works predate
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers, recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots. The controversy started when, in the middle of a video posted on the educational channel Complexly, Green incongruously used the phrase “I appreciate the pushback,” leading
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You could be sitting on a treasure trove of fantastic iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV games and not even know it. Apple Arcade might be one of the most underrated gaming services on the market right now, with many Apple One subscribers not even realizing that it is included
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UPES Runway, the startup incubator at UPES, hosted the New Delhi leg of The Pitch 3.0, an initiative focused exclusively on AI-native and AI-driven startups. Rather than positioning itself as a conventional pitch competition, the program aims to identify founders building businesses where AI forms the core of the
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I've spent the last week really getting to grips with the Apple Arcade service, trying out all of the available games and experimenting with its major features. Ultimate Guide to Apple Arcade This article is part of our Ultimate Guide to Apple Arcade: the definitive guide to everything
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* Instructions hidden as white text in a Word document can make Microsoft 365 Copilot silently alter the file it is drafting and copy the instructions into the output * Each poisoned document becomes a carrier, so the attack spreads through ordinary internal workflows without the original malicious file and needs no
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Whether you're a die-hard mobile gamer or a newcomer to the world of portable play, Apple Arcade will likely have something for you. Ultimate Guide to Apple Arcade This article is part of our Ultimate Guide to Apple Arcade: the definitive guide to everything that you need to
