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In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps.

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …

A walkthrough of a popular math problem. Drop N random points on a circle. What is the probability they all land in a semicircle? The answer uses mutual exclusivity in a surprising way.

Nature - Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

A practical about:config checklist to declutter Firefox right-click menus on macOS, disabling AI/chatbot prompts, link previews, OCR, visual search, and other low-value context menu items.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scientist from Missouri who was denied a copyright for a piece…

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Find out how you can take years of stored memory with you if you decide to leave ChatGPT and join a new AI service.

New York Senate Bill S7263 would make chatbot operators civilly liable when AI answers questions across 14 licensed professions plus law. Disclaimers will not protect operators. A private right of action opens the door to serial litigation.

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The case is the first wrongful death case against Google over alleged harms caused by Gemini.

Google is changing how it collects fees on the Play Store, and making it easier to use third-party app stores and billing systems.