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Engineering Collisions: How NYU Is Remaking Health Research
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering.The traditional approach to academic research goes something like this: Assemble experts from a discipline, put them in a building, and hope something useful emerges. Biology departments...
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A faster way to estimate AI power consumption
Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up...
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Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures | TechCrunch
Truecaller is one of the world’s most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users. Now it’s entering a more challenging phase as growth slows in its largest market and competition intensifies across telecom networks and...
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The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world . . . will probably read this book and try even harder | TechCrunch
Theo Baker is graduating from Stanford this spring with something most seniors don’t have: a book deal, a George Polk Award that he received for his investigative reporting as a student journalist, and a front-row account of one of...
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Linux Version of Framework’s Laptop 13 Pro is Outselling Its Windows Variant – Slashdot
Framework began shipping its new Laptop 13 Pro this week. And the Ubuntu variant is outselling the Windows variant, reports PC World:t's selling quickly by Framework's internal metrics, with six batches of the Intel version of the...
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‘STAGED’: Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere Following White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, influencers, pundits, and random posters lit up social media platforms like X, Bluesky, and Instagram with conspiracy theories about the attack and the...
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Privacy Advocate Accuses US Government of Investing in AI-Powered Mass Surveillance – Slashdot
The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government "is able to purchase...
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Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Isn’t Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds – Slashdot
After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers "immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions," reports Fortune:14-year-old in New South Wales, told
The Washington Post in December 2025, just
before the implementation of the ban, she planned to...
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White House Pushed Out New AI Official After Just Four Days on the Job – Slashdot
It's the U.S. government's main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic's "Mythos". To run it they'd hired Collin Burns, who'd worked at OpenAI and...
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Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
As researchers and practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it used early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its new Firefox 150 browser...
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Mali attacks: Russia’s Africa Corps confirms withdrawal from Kidal
Fighting resumed in Kidal on Sunday, but shortly afterwards, FLA spokesman Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane said an agreement had been...