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  As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland: Europe’s Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

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  Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections: But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.

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  Data center gear is being hijacked in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions — grand-theft-GPU thieves hack accounts, perform hit-and-runs, spoof GPS signals, and funnel hardware to China.

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  Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."

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  “No human at the helm”: Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses: Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for “reckless” AI, US Rep. Comer says.

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  Nintendo Loves You: No Plans To Abandon Physical Media Because ‘Fans Enjoy It’: "we have no plans to abandon physical media. We know how much fans enjoy it."

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  AI models cost more when you don’t use English: Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.

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  Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech: "There are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth."

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  ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users: system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything.

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  Big Tech is cashing in on AI while the rest of corporate America sees no financial returns — report outlines how rising token costs threaten to squeeze corporate profit margins.

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  Are Delivery Robots Scanning You Into a Database Scarier Than Flock? Et tu, ramen messenger?

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  Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society: Public opinion is not on the AI industry's side.

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  Banks Preparing for Aftermath of Unprecedented Catastrophe Caused by AI: "You can't stop it."

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  AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It’s Backfiring: Even a whiff of AI money seems to disgust voters.

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  Behind the Scenes, Meta’s Board Is Battling With Mark Zuckerberg Over His Out-of-Control AI Spending: The directors have had enough.

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  Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising: Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.

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  There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry: "People aren’t just dropping their shorts for data centers anymore."

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  Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

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  PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow: plans to release security updates on Wednesday, October 21, at 14:00 UTC (10:00 AM Eastern).

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  Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Secretly Ordered Cybersecurity Operatives to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It.

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  Political Candidates Spending An Obscene Amount of Money on AI-Generated Election Slop: "I think what we're seeing with AI has surprised even us."

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  Will developing nations be able to handle millions of AI agents? It may be some time before AI agents can fully navigate the complexities and cultural nuances of developing nations.

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  The Average Man Is Such a BSer About AI That He’ll Claim to Know About an AI Executive Who Doesn’t Even Exist: Men caught hallucinating.

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  Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets.

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  Livestreamers Film Themselves Using Humanoid Robot to Sexually Assault Teen Girl, Prompting Police to Seize the Bot: Absolutely disgusting.

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  Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails: "The real flaw is that the model can’t tell the difference between text it’s supposed to read and instructions it’s supposed to follow."

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  Western open-weight models still can’t beat China: Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems.

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  Amazon Launches Ominous Wearable Ankle Monitor-Style Gadget That Records You Constantly: It's designed to "stay with you through a full week without interruption."

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  AI Experts Already Doomsday Prepping for When AI Takes Out the Entire Financial System: Start stocking up, folks!

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  Data Centers Are Driving Conservative Rural Voters to The Democratic Party En Masse: It turns out that middle America REALLY detests data centers.