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Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars, but only in poorer countries
Enlarge / Night view of company logos in Nestlé Avanca Dairy Products Plant on January 21,...
Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP
Hackers abused an antivirus service for five years in order to infect end users with malware....
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10k
Enlarge / The Thermonator robot flamethrower dog. If you've been wondering when you'll be able to...
The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
Enlarge / I have hundreds of UUIDs and I must scream. The modern "smart" TV asks...
Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections
Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation...
Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand
Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform...
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip
Enlarge / A cropped portion of a ca. 1980 ad for the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard, which...
First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM
Enlarge / OnLeak's renders of the Pixel 9 Pro XL, the Pixel 9 Pro, and the...
Dragonfly Mission to Titan
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Titan. NASA has formally approved...
Explore a digitized collection of doomed Everest climber's letters home
Enlarge / The final letter from George Mallory from Camp I, Mount Everest, to his wife...
Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor
Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted...
NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit
Enlarge / This image taken by NASA's Orion spacecraft shows its view just before the vehicle...
It's cutting calories–not intermittent fasting–that drops weight
Intermittent fasting, aka time-restricted eating, can help people lose weight—but the reason why may not be...
Microsoft's VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for "VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real...
OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships 2022
Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt "A painting by Grant...
Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions
Google is doing a major re-org of Android, Chrome, and the Google hardware division: They're merging!...
Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X
Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital. ] Since 2021,...
Elon Musk's Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users' jokes
X's chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform's posts to surface...
How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun
I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet...
Feds appoint "AI doomer" to run US AI safety institute
The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—has finally announced...
Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC
Enlarge / A rat looks for food while on a subway platform at the Columbus Circle...
Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°
Almost from the start, arguments about mitigating climate change have included an element of cost-benefit analysis:...
Song lyrics are getting more repetitive, angrier
Link URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/sound-familiar-song-lyrics-have-gotten-more-repetitive-since-the-1970s/ Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~music/1fnh/song_lyrics_are_getting_more_repetitive_angrier Votes: 7 Comments: 2