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Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’
The website for Elon Musk's Grok is exposing prompts for its anime girl, therapist, and conspiracy theory AI personas.
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The Government Just Made it Harder for The Public to Comment on Regulations
A critical piece of tech infrastructure that lets people talk to the government has been disabled.
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Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots that Change by ‘Consuming’ Other Robots
Researchers say this 'robot metabolism' is an early step in giving AI biological style bodies.
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Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech
Tech companies spent $1.2 billion on political influence since 2024. It’s paid off.
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ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.
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4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay
The cult classic 2005 film is selling for double the MSRP on the secondary market.
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UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought
As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.
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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
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It Looks Like a School Vape Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Become an Audio Bug
The Halo 3C is a vape detector installed in schools and public housing. A young hacker found it contains microphones and that it can be turned into an audio bug, raising privacy concerns.
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Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda
Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.
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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.
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ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm
MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriff's Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.