We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
‘I don’t think I am a hero’: Boy, 13, describes ‘superhuman’ swim to save family BBC
What One Australian Teen Did to Save His Family Is Superhuman.“A 13-year-old boy from Australia has gone viral after a superhuman display of heroics rescued his family after they drifted out to sea. And this is one of a million reasons why you won’t catch this writer out on the ocean or any other large body of water. That, and an irrational fear of giant squid. I don’t care what anyone says, the kraken is real.”
I don’t know about the kraken, but I sometimes miss living by the ocean.
The Tour Down Under’s winner won despite being blasted off his bike by kangaroos. “Two of them blasted through the peloton when we were doing probably 50 kph and…went left, right, left right, left right and I ended up hitting its backside.”
Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study Guardian. “‘UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers.'”
Nipah Virus Has Asia on High Alert Amid New Cases in India NBC. No cases in Thailand but monitoring has been tightened further. Nipha has a fatality rate of >
The early-retirement trap: How to avoid loneliness, boredom and ‘wet leaf syndrome’
The early-retirement trap: How to avoid loneliness, boredom and ‘wet leaf syndrome’ Quitting work earlier in life is the ultimate goal for many. But the reality can be a brutal letdown.
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- Litany of FAA Faults Found in Potomac Crash
- The New York Times
- NYC creating a “secret” underground utilties map
- Gothamist
- Vulnerabilities Surge, Messy Reporting Blurs Picture
- Robert Lemos
- Trump's acting cyber-chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT
- Politico
- Russian Hackers Believed Behind December Cyberattacks on Polish Energy Targets
- A.J. Vicens
- Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data
- Thomas Brewster
- Why AI Can't Make Thoughtful Decisions
- Blair Effron
- China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons with Learning from Animals
- Josh Chin
- Misleading Text in the Physical World Can Hijack AI-Enabled Robots
- Emily Cerf
- Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh Benefits
- Cory Turner
- AI hallucination reveals in part how bad WMP botched their risk assessment
- Peter Campbell
- AI error sent some ICE recruits into field offices without proper training
- NBC News
- Waymo Probed by NTSB over Illegal School Bus Behavior
- Sean O'Kane
- Congress Passes Bill to Fund U.S. Science Agencies
- Evan Bush
- Daily Beast and other outlets are reporting the supposed leak of thousands of personal details for ICE and other immigration related agents
- Boris Patro—Raw Story
- Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”
- ArsTechnica
- I think I found what caused yesterday's Verizon outage.
- Many Bluetooth devices with Google Fast Pair vulnerable to WhisperPair hack eavesdrop
- Ars Technica
- Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests
- Ars Technica
- Microsoft Copilot misinformation is the source of a career-limiting international incident
- The Guardian
- Script of my national radio report yesterday on the damage being done to communities by AI data centers, and the effect of AI strangling the supply of DRAM
- Lauren Weinstein
- How to slow down the AI Horror
- Lauren Weinstein
- Verizon outage: With service restored, here's everything that's happened so far
- Tech Radar
- Google's fear of anything like an Ombudsman
- Lauren Weinstein
- Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing
- Ars Technica
- A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot
- Ars Technica
- Tech giants face landmark trial over social media addiction claims
- BBC
- He let ChatGPT analyze a decade of his Apple Watch data. Then he called his doctor.
- WashPost
- The AI Shopping Wars Are Here
- NY Mag via Steve Bacher
- AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
- WiReD
- Google appeals landmark antitrust verdict over search monopoly
- BBC
- Re: How AI Undermines Education
- Martin Ward
- Re: Thieves are stealing keyless cars in minutes. Here's how to protect your vehicle
- John Levine
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