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People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’

Petter Rudwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. So he scraped trip reports and psychological research on the effects of various psychoactive substances, wrote a batch of codes modules to hijack chatbot

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Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers

About 10 Apple employees spent some of their valuable hours over recent months on a project that might seem unusual for the tech giant: customizing an open source AI tool for ImageTek, a small manufacturer in Springfield, Vermont, whose lines of business include printing millions of labels for food packaging. The Apple engineers developed a

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Former Neuralink Exec Launches Organ Preservation Effort

Science Corporation, the brain-computer interface startup founded in 2021 by former Neuralink president Max Hodak, is launching a new division of the company with the goal of extending the life of human organs. And no, not brains. Alameda, California-based Science is aiming to improve on current perfusion systems that continuously circulate blood through vital organs

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Microsoft Will Finally Kill an Encryption Cipher That Enabled a Decade of Windows Hacks

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years. This follows more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and recent blistering criticism from a prominent US senator. When the software maker rolled out Active Directory in 2000, it made RC4 a sole

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Jaguar’s Type 00 Still Looks Odd, but This Is One Seriously Quick EV

You have to feel sorry for Jaguar. By any standards it’s been a terrible year for the British carmaker. First came dealing with the continued fallout of the December 2024 reveal of the Type 00 concept. The brand wanted the EV’s radical design to be polarizing, but it seemed unprepared for what forms such polarized

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