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US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s special forces, for allegedly using “classified, nonpublic” information about the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to notch more...
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Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World
Some Rednote users have reported that their accounts were automatically converted from the Chinese to the international version of the website recently. One American user, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid being punished by the platform, shared a...
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Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
Respiratory infections seem to temporarily reduce the spread of cancer to the lungs from elsewhere in the body. Infecting...
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Anthropic’s Mythos Shows How AI Is Changing Hacking
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure...
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Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say | TechCrunch
Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these two campaigns are likely a small snapshot of what they believe to be...
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Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections...
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Tesla just increased its capex to $25B. Here’s where the money is going. | TechCrunch
Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the company’s first-quarter earnings call with a monetary heads-up — or depending on the mindset of the investor, a warning. Tesla’s capital expenditures will skyrocket to $25 billion in 2026, far outpacing its...
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ChatGPT workspace agents turn AI into a team member
OpenAI is pushing ChatGPT beyond just answering questions, and this latest update makes that shift pretty obvious. With workspace agents, ChatGPT is starting to look less like a chatbot and more like a full-blown work assistant.What are workspace agents...
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Trump Media replaces CEO Devin Nunes as its losses top $1 billion
Trump Media & Technology Group is replacing CEO Devin Nunes, who led the company through its public debut and a subsequent surge — and swoon — in its market value.Trump Media, which trades under the...
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Meta failed to protect social media users from scam ads, lawsuit alleges
A new lawsuit alleges that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, misled users about the company's efforts to prevent scams on its platforms.The Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a nonprofit advocacy group that...
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Rosenberg: Kremlin’s tightening grip on internet fuels public discontent
Throughout Russia, internet usage has become seriously restricted. Citizens are drawing comparison to Soviet censorship and today's digital blackouts.
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