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CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections

In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight...

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Authors are celebrating a "historic" settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic's AI training data. On Tuesday, US District...

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

Adam Raine learned to bypass these safeguards by claiming he was writing a story—a technique the lawsuit says ChatGPT itself suggested. This vulnerability partly...

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

An early look at the streamlined Android Developer Console for sideloaded apps. Credit: Google ...

Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian...

Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship

The 404-foot-tall (123-meter) Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster stand on SpaceX's launch pad. In the foreground, there...

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

But it struggled with more complex phrases. Pushing the frontier Once the mental privacy safeguard was in place, the team started testing their inner...

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Doctors soon discovered they were infected with the rare soil bacterium, which causes a disease called melioidosis. Dangerous infection Generally, melioidosis can be difficult...

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English "just for fun" got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest...

Deeply divided Supreme Court lets NIH grant terminations continue

The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor....

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