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What would you think if you opened a review of a new television series and read this plot?

The ten smartest AI models carry only 6% of the traffic on an open platform.

“I think you said, ‘representative.’” It’s the fastest way to bypass automated speech recognition chatbots that fail to route human

The post Microsoft’s new voice AI can start working out what you want before you finish speaking appeared first on The New Stack.

Ukraine has changed drones and war-fighting tech to reduce reliance on Starlink.

Friday the 13th prequel series based on Jason’s mom drags at first, then hits a vein.

"We believe Canada should be able to reach orbit on its own terms."

Ukraine has changed drone and war-fighting tech to reduce reliance on Starlink.

Friday the 13th prequel series based on Jason’s mom drags at first, then hits a vein.

"We believe Canada should be able to reach orbit on its own terms."

Rose Friedman, an East Village resident since 2014, died of cancer on Sept. 17. She was 38.  Friedman, an accomplished labor historian and arts and culture editor for NPR, fought for and won a major increase in paid parental leave for her co-workers in the Screen Acto...

Residents concerned about the deteriorating, pothole-filled walkways in Tompkins Square Park may finally see some improvements.  During Community Board 3's Parks, Recreation, Waterfront & Resiliency Committee meeting last Thursday evening (Oct. 15), Steve Simon, c...

CapMetro’s Austin transit fleets electrified two public bus lines and opened two new park-and-ride facilities featuring overhead pantograph-style wired charging equipment to help Austinites breathe a little bit easier.

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Bright red water in the middle of October?! Residents were understandably concerned after seeing the unusual sight in Ossining. Continue reading…

Samsung’s cute compact is for those who want the smallest possible phone. Performance and camera are solid, but it’s pricier than its predecessor.

Seems like it’s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we’re up to, so it’s “Potato”. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen.1 I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention mode....

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President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a misleadingly edited quote in a documentary it aired in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election. The lawsuit […]

The post Trump sued the BBC. Now he has to answer its questions. appeared first on Poynter.

The Indian CA eMudhra Limited has eight TLS certificates with laughably weak private keys:

The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2³⁸⁴, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities. The private key sizes of the compromised keys ranged from 3 to 8 bits. Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237...

Doubt, idiocracy, baseball, meals, and fish. Find out why these five stories stood out.

Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in Earth's recent geological history. Scientists used underwater seismic surveys to reveal a vast store of magma that appears to have accumulated since the ancient catastrophe. The discovery could help explain how supervolcanoes like Yellowstone and Toba rebuild their magma supplies.