New: A leaked training presentation from a NY's largest hospital system shows how doctors are being encouraged to use AI for everything from writing emails to summarizing clinical evaluations to "diagnosing pancreatic cancer" and "parse" health records
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Leaked Training Shows How Doctors in New York’s Biggest Hospital System Are Using AI
At Northwell Health, executives are encouraging clinicians and all 85,000 employees to use a tool called AI Hub, according to a presentation obtain...
Epic Games intends to merge Sketchfab, a repository of 3D models that include games stuff but also museum scans of art and ancient relics, into its own marketplace. But many scientific scans can't be migrated/may disappear entirely
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Scientists and Archivists Worry Epic Games’ Control of the 3D Model Market Will ‘Destroy’ Cultural Heritage
Sketchfab users who champion open access are worried that Epic Games’ ownership and transition to Fab puts thousands of 3D models used for scienc...
New: A new federal rule makes it legal to hack McFlurry machines (and medical devices) in order to fix them:
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It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them
A new federal rule makes it legal to bypass software locks on commercial food equipment for the purposes of repair.
New: A surveillance tool government agencies have access to can track everywhere a phone goes without a warrant. Someone with access to the tool tracked a person crossing state lines to go to an abortion clinic, then showed us how it works:
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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics
Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Ab...
Incredibly cool: A community of people on Discord are salvaging Redbox kiosks from Walgreens all over the country and are reverse engineering and modifying them. Redbox OS got dumped this week and people are actively figuring out how to repurpose it:
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Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them
The Redbox operating system has been dumped, and people are repurposing the massive DVD kiosks they've saved from the scrap heap.
An AI sex bot site was hacked, which has exposed not only very specific sensitive info about how people interact w sex bots (and the emails of the people doing it), but also a disturbing amount of people who are trying to turn the chatbots into children
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Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse
A hacked database from AI companion site Muah.ai exposes peoples' particular kinks and fantasies they've asked their bot to engage in. It also show...
AI slop is being weaponized by the internet's worst grifters, who do not care that it's not real as long as it helps them further their political agenda
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Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop
The era of politically-motivated AI slop is here and it sucks.
New: Two men stole more than $1 million from DoorDash workers by impersonating them with customer service, getting access to their accounts, then draining them. In some cases customer service workers were complicit, indictment says:
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Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service
The men called DoorDash customer service and pretended they had lost access to the accounts, then drained them, the indictment alleges.