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The promise of biometric security is, in large part, a farce. Many biometric security systems are surprisingly easy to trick or circumvent. Redundant checks and more sophisticated methodologies help, but you probably still shouldn’t trust anything important to, say, a fingerprint reader. But what about palm-scanners that look at
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Have you ever wondered why a scissor jack that weighs just 10 pounds can lift a car that weighs a couple of tons, with only the muscle power that your grandmother can put into it? That’s possible thanks to mechanical advantage, which turns a whole of bunch of rotations
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Effective immediately — at least in theory — Instagram is requiring profiles of fake influencers to carry an “AI-generated profile” badge directly beneath the handle and display name in the account’s main bio header. In a blog post titled Bringing More Transparency to AI-Generated Profiles on Instagram, the Meta-owned social network
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Today’s Wordle answer is pretty difficult, and the final letter is one most people just never guess. Read on for hints and the answer. Today’s Wordle hints Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler,
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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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5:13 PM PDT · August 31, 2026 In its lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple filed what it calls “shocking evidence” to bolster its allegations that former employees stole trade secrets for OpenAI’s benefit. These new details emerged after the legal counsel for former Apple employee Chang Liu — who now works
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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle features a diverse range of categories. The purple category is tricky, as always. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group hint: Person who directs the team does this.
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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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In Brief 4:41 PM PDT · August 31, 2026 The popular prediction market Polymarket has raised $300 million from 1789 Capital as part of a new funding round totaling around $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. 1789 Capital, an investment fund in which Donald Trump Jr.
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In Brief 4:14 PM PDT · August 31, 2026 Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm added another $1.75 billion since the fund launched in January with $6.75 billion. The firm’s announcement comes just days
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers allow foundation models to access external data and tools, supporting standardized, secure access to files, databases, and APIs. They give AI agents the ability to interact with real-world applications, reduce hallucinations with accurate context, and offer stateful, multi-turn capabilities. Industry-standard architectures quickly evolved and adopted
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Google’s streaming device is the latest to get a price hike, after similar increases from Apple and Amazon. by Stevie Bonifield Aug 31, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at
