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Someone Finally Took a Good iPhone Photo of the Moon. Good Luck Copying Their Trick
Amateur photographers have been trying to figure this out for years, but NASA came up with a cool hack.
In Letter, OpenAI Reportedly Says Elon Musk and Meta Are Coordinating ‘Attacks’ Against It
The letter to the attorneys general of Delaware and California asks for an investigation into Musk.
After court loss, RFK Jr. gives himself more power over CDC vaccine panel
Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has amended the charter of a federal vaccine advisory panel to seemingly grant…
From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability
Robotic machine learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success…
Steven Spielberg Still Wants to Make a Horror Film ‘Someday’
His movies aren’t without frights (‘Jaws’ and ‘Jurassic Park’ surely caused some nightmares), but the Oscar winner would like to…
Anonymous Sources Detail Sam Altman’s Alleged Untrustworthiness in New Report
“I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.”
Axios Attack Shows Social Complex Engineering Is Industrialized
The attack on the popular NPM package Axios is just one of many targeting maintainers and has shone a light…
Sports bets on prediction markets ruled to be “swaps,” exempt from state laws
A federal appeals court ruled that New Jersey cannot regulate sports bets on prediction markets because the US Commodity Futures…
Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would’ve required residents to verify their age before accessing porn sites, as…