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AI
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Google search results are now full of AI-generated junk websites full of ads.
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Finally, a good use for AI: wasting spam callers' time.
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You want to rent an apartment? Computer says no.
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Sorry, crapto: Y Combinator's latest batch of venture capital investments is 35% AI startups.
Technology
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Tesla on autopilot plows into the back of a stationary truck.
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Finally, Myst for the Atari 2600.
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High school carries out computer security audit, changes everyone's password to the same value.
Business
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Man buys house. Previous owner died in 2007 leaving an unpaid water bill of $118,000. Guess who the water company wants to pay the bill?
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Employers forcing people to return to the office are losing more employees than they expected.
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National Geographic gets rid of its last writers.
Food
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The great Sriracha shortage continues.
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While Americans go out for Chinese food, the hot new trend in China is "white people meals"
Nature
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Pennsylvania university warns of aggressive cow on campus.
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Columbus OH park department finds dead octopus hanging out of a toilet.
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Swim teams compete with intestinal pathogen.
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Scientists find 50 million year old insect testicle.
Florida
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Florida legalizes construction of roads using radioactive mining waste.
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Florida man hires pool cleaner, mistakes him for an intruder, fires 30 gunshots at him.
And finally...
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak donated £100,000 to his old private school. Asked to donate to a fundraiser for a state school in his constituency, he sends a bottle of the cheapest wine in the House of Commons shop.