A former US surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a $5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.' (www.businessinsider.com)
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Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say::Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s 18-year-old son, Tyler Boebert, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and is facing 22 charges, including several felony charges relating to a string of crimes in her Colorado district....
AT&T is giving customers a $5 credit for its cellphone outage. Some angry customers say it’s not enough.::AT&T announced a $5 credit toward a future phone bill and said it “let down many of our customers” as a result of the outage.
The University of Waterloo is expected to remove smart vending machines from its campus....
A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.
Russian forces seized the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka earlier this month but paid a heavy price....
South Korea experienced a five-fold surge in Russian asylum seekers in 2023....
Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was ‘woke’::After users complained Google’s Gemini had gone “woke,” the company said it will pause the image-generating feature of people while working on fixes.
China is one of the world’s most unaffordable places to raise a child, a Beijing think tank says....
Vladimir Putin is racking up a string of strongman wins, including the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny....
One parent said the influx of permission slips is getting "out of control" and "burdensome."