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Recovery Seeds Reportedly Breached for Coldcard Hardware Bitcoin Wallets, $75M Taken – Slashdot
"A hardware wallet is supposed to be the safest place to keep Bitcoin," writes The Street, since it never connects to the internet, its keys never leave the device, and "the whole point is that an attacker would...
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Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout | TechCrunch
Six twentysomethings in East London have built what they say is the anti-San Francisco hacker house. The goal is a “holistic improvement in life,” rather than “12 weeks, Demo Day is coming,” Rowan Aldean, 26, explained. Intrigued, I spent an...
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Google just canceled its AI Studio mobile app, and it’s not all bad news
Google AI Studio was on track to make its way to Android and iPhone, giving developers and AI enthusiasts a dedicated place to build prompts and experiment with Google’s latest models from their phones.That’s no longer happening. In a...
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Google Earth’s AI misadventure lasted only a day. It was a tale of dangerous ignorance.
Technology behemoths are clearly not reading the room, or they are just moving faster than they should when it comes to AI deployment. Google has already stuffed its Gemini AI in every corner of its software stack, from Android...
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We Tested 70 Office Chairs to Pick the Best Ones
How to Sit Properly at a DeskAccordionItemContainerButtonThe right chair can only go so far. Your sitting habits and posture matter too. We've rounded up several tips on how to set up your desk properly here, and how to avoid...
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Drones Offer Alternative to Balloons For Weather Research – Slashdot
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The U.S. company Meteomatics has created an automated weather-monitoring system that uses drones to collect atmospheric data at multiple altitudes before returning to recharge and upload their findings. The so-called Meteobase, which consists of a base station on...
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Drifting SpaceX Rocket Heading For Accidental Collision With the Moon – Slashdot
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"Space.com and The Guardian are reporting that the Falcon 9 upper stage leftover from the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost-1 lander on Jan. 15, 2025 is due to impact the Moon on Aug. 5, 2026," writes longtime...
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Snapchat joins other platforms in the fight against ‘AI slop’
As Chris Best, the co-founder and chief executive of Substack put it last week: "It's getting harder to tell what's real on the internet."Announcing a new tool, external designed to let readers on the newsletter platform detect AI-generated writing,...
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New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say – Slashdot
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Google has integrated its Nano Banana 2 image generator into Google Earth, allowing users to place AI-generated events and objects onto real satellite imagery. The company says its AI-generated images contain invisible watermarks detectable through Gemini or Lens,...
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Families sue Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube over deaths of 4 teens
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, alleging that using the social media platforms led to severe mental health and physical issues that resulted in their...
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Paris tells e-scooter riders to wear safety gear or face fines
Electric scooter riders in Paris face being fined if they fail to comply with new safety rules, as police...