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Millions Stolen, Death Threats: Should Banks Do More to Fight ‘Pig Butchering’?  The Wall Street JournalView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Florida’s disaster pipeline funnels millions to politically connected contractors  Orlando Sentinel Venezuelan detainee alleges inhumane conditions at Alligator Alcatraz: “They have us in a cage like chickens.”  CBS News ‘This is our homeland’: Prayer circle forms at Alligator Alcatraz amid controversy  WPLG Local 10 Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Reveal Chaotic Conditions  Newsweek The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center  The New York Times …

AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back.  The Washington Post US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules  Reuters Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means  The Atlantic AI companies accused of ‘largest domestic piracy of IP in our nation’s history’ at congressional hearing led by MAGA Republican  Music Business Worldwide (Podcast) The Briefing: …

Facebook Tweet Email Link There are reports of multiple people being swept away by flooding in Virginia as tens of millions of people are at risk of dangerous flash floods in pockets of nearly every region of the contiguous United States Friday, and as the nation’s summer of flooding continues. As summer heat starts to peak, July has seen the …

Millions taking a common painkiller could be unwittingly raising their risk of suffering from dementia and memory problems. That’s the warning from researchers in Ohio, who tracked people prescribed gabapentin – often sold under the brand name Neurontin – for more than a decade after their first dose. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal, concluded that …

Revolution in medicine: A molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis, responsible for millions of deaths  EL PAÍS English Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis  Nature A gut microbiota metabolite linked to atherosclerosis could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment  European Research Council (ERC) Tanshinone regulated gut microbiota and TMAO to improve high-fat diet induced atherosclerosis in APOE−/− mice  BMC Microbiology Gut …

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Last week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft shared internally that it had saved $500 million in call center costs, thanks to AI — shortly after the company laid 9,000 people off, the third round in a series of layoffs totaling 15,000.  What does this mean for the tech industry — and job security for humans — at large?  …

Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, . CEO Mark Zuckerberg will spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating “superintelligence.” The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple domains. This is something of a holy grail for . …

In an unexpected discovery, researchers have found that wild tomatoes in the Galápagos Islands seem to be evolving in reverse. This fascinating phenomenon, previously thought to be rare, suggests that evolution isn’t always a straightforward process. The finding, which challenges conventional wisdom, could lead to exciting breakthroughs in genetic research. Tomatoes Turning Back Time on the Galápagos A team of …

It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. …