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Wellness Influencers Are Pushing ‘Natural’ and Unproven Alternatives to Adderall
This messaging is cause for concern, according to ADHD specialists who spoke with WIRED.“Stimulant medications have been in existence for nearly 100 years, and approved for use in children since the 1960s,” says Kristen Leinung, a mental health nurse...
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A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5 – Slashdot
"The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy," reports Bloomberg. Workers ditch office jobs not to become celebrities, necessarily, "but to piece together an income online through...
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Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI? | TechCrunch
The frontier of physical AI is a Jenga game in a warehouse in San Leandro, California.That warehouse is occupied by Encord, a company that builds data tooling used to train AI models. Andrew Ceja is a pilot—the company’s...
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NASA Replaces ULA’s Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research – Slashdot
There's been a change to NASA's launch of six satellites for solar storms research. Space.com reports that those satellites "were originally slated to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket but have now...
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Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI | TechCrunch
The launch of the latest AI model from a Chinese company — Moonshot AI’s Kimi — reignited debates around American competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI.While there was plenty of conversation on social media, it seems the debate is...
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Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America – Slashdot
270,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, reports the Guardian. A wildfire even forced evacuations in Scotland.And wildfires "have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S.," reports NPR, as tens...
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32 of 35 Students Caught Using Hilariously Wrong AI-Generated Answers for Professor’s Midterm – Slashdot
"32 of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response," history professor Jason Gibson says in a viral video shared over 10 million times....
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Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon, Study Finds – Slashdot
"In many parts of the world, lakes are drying out at a scale so massive that scientists are warning they may be emitting enough greenhouse gases to rival our fossil fuel habit," reports ScienceAlert:In a new study...
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Trump Threatens New Tariffs Against EU Over Google Fine – Slashdot
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President Trump threatened a "substantial" new tariff on the European Union after Brussels fined Google more than $1 billion over alleged illegal trade practices. "The European Union will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly...
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The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Plus, researchers this week shed light...
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US launches ‘heavy’ strikes on Iran after attempted attack on American troops
The US military says it launched "heavy" strikes against Iran on Wednesday in retaliation for attempted Iranian ballistic missile...