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AI-Designed Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Passes Trials
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (425+ words) Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to be safe and well tolerated. Posted by Helium Rat at 12: 32 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | But if it does work…...
Websites Can Now Peek at Your SSD to See What You're Up to
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (118+ words) There's reportedly a new way for websites to spy on visitors: by monitoring how their computers' SSDs behave. The technique is called FROST, short for "fingerprinting remotely using OPFSbased SSD timing," and it runs through Java Script on a web…...
Map: Where Data Centers Are Being Built in Drought-Hit Areas
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (178+ words) A wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is being built across drought-stricken parts of the U. S. , raising concerns about water supplies as the country faces its driest start to a year since 1910. Posted by lamplighter at 09: 32 AM | 2 COMMENTS | permalink…...
Consciousness Might Not Be Something the Brain Creates
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1448+ words) it might be a fundamental feature of reality itself, more like gravity than like a thought " and one of the most credentialed neuroscientists alive is now arguing that mainstream science has been wrong about it for a century Posted by…...
49, 000 Lake Tahoe Residents Have One Year to Find New Power
2+ week, 6+ day ago (293+ words) Residents in many US states have reacted angrily as AI data centers spring up across the country, citing environmental impacts and rising utility bills. Posted by qcp at 09: 33 PM | 2 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | "Nearly 50, 000 Lake Tahoe residents are…...
Your AI Use is Breaking My Brain
3+ week, 4+ day ago (283+ words) Jason Koebler: To browse the internet today, to consume any sort of content at all, is to be bombarded with AI of all sorts. People think things that are fake are real, things that are real are fake. Much has…...
Meta, Tik Tok Get Your Data from State Healthcare Sites
3+ week, 5+ day ago (301+ words) Most people are well aware at this stage that their activity is being observed on just about every website and platform they visit. But if there is only one place you would hope might be free of invasive trackers, it'd…...
Physicists Just Found a Tiny Flaw in Time Itself
4+ week, 1+ day ago (260+ words) Quantum weirdness may be quietly blurring time itself--offering a tantalizing clue to the universe's deepest laws. Posted by Dbt2 at 11: 32 AM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | #1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-08 01: 52 PM | Reply #2 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-08 02: 02 PM | Reply I was…...
Chrome Silently Installs a 4 GB Local LLM on Your Computer
4+ week, 1+ day ago (653+ words) You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you? Posted by Lamp Lighter at 10: 32 AM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | It's called weights. bin and it's stored in a folder called Opt Guide On Device Model. What's more,…...
AI Tools Used to Track Immigrants also Used on U. S. Citizens
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (203+ words) The Wall Street Journal reports that the new powerful technical tools that track immigrants is also being used on U. S. citizens. Posted by C0 RI0 LANUS at 05: 30 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | One of the original MAGA lawmakers has turned on…...