The holiday is still two weeks out, but this MacBook Air discount may be the must-buy laptop deal of the season. buff.ly/ZC71DPe
Take your home-office setup up a notch with an under-desk treadmill. These early holiday deals let you get one for less. buff.ly/UJNEfIT
House Democrats are already planning to make their impeachment case against the defense secretary as airtight—and appealing to Republicans—as possible. buff.ly/oBXroNT
Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment. buff.ly/RPHMicH
An OpenAI model helped me teach the Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler. buff.ly/JjEfwuE
Looking for rich picture quality and inky-black shadows? These OLED TVs are the ones you want for your next movie night. buff.ly/VWQeEnj
Apple sells four types of iPads. Here’s an updated breakdown of the brand’s tablets to help you find the best one for your needs. buff.ly/45TV3kg
Startup Radical Numerics has developed a model that it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens without an internet connection. buff.ly/o0ICDQy
There’s a specific mantra drilled into government workers, military officers, and intelligence personnel during counterintelligence briefings: “If she’s a 10 and you’re a 5, she’s a spy!” So how did the world’s most powerful AI executive fall for it? wired.com/story/chinas-nvidi…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang allegedly had an affair with Alice Huang (no relation), a one-time executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud provider. US intelligence agencies warned top US officials that they believed she was a Chinese intelligence asset. wired.com/story/chinas-nvidi…
“It has left a sour taste in my mouth,” says a Heated Rivalry fanfic author who found her work uploaded to AO3 mirror sites without her consent. buff.ly/gdN0r0b
China’s use of sexpionage is a well-established intelligence tactic with recent, high-profile examples. So how did the world’s most powerful AI executive fall for it? buff.ly/4MUgTnj
Winning streaks can be turned off and influencers will be forced to reveal when they’re being paid under the new Digital Fairness Act aimed at tackling ‘dark patterns’ on platforms and services. buff.ly/L29thsW
Metalenz just acquired PxE to ditch the 50-year-old color filter that has held back smartphone night photography. buff.ly/dupik8O
Amid rising electricity costs, Michiganders decisively voted for a ballot proposition to curtail the ability of utilities to spend on elections—a move utilities say limits their freedom of speech. buff.ly/9FGy8oL
The young girl’s parents allege that she used Gemini via her school Chromebook to plan her suicide, but the school’s monitoring systems didn’t know until it was almost too late. buff.ly/5wl3x9Q
Researchers in Germany gradually reversed human cells’ ages by decades. By doing so, they could track the de-aging process in a way previous rejuvenation experiments could not. buff.ly/sQ3fVde
Some users have noticed a new “frequent viewer” label that reveals who repeatedly views their profiles. buff.ly/loJ1gq0
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For die-hard Amazon shoppers, the retail giant starts Black Friday deals on November 19. But you can already stock up on early deals now. buff.ly/FegILkQ
The “abliterators” are flooding the internet with AI models that never say no, making it easier for people to improve their cyberdefenses—or build a bomb.
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When you train a cutting-edge AI model, the clever but unruly “base” model goes through additional training called alignment that’s meant to align a model with human ideas about right and wrong.
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Let your friend pick out their own hiking boots. For their next trip into the wild, try gifting a useful blade, merino socks, moka pot, or a nature journal. buff.ly/g8lav9g
