Enjoy today's example of prompt injection, courtesy of the mindless corporate thirst for replacing expensive humans with cheap machines. The links in this post go to Twitter, where rare joy… Read the rest of the article: It's easy to trick Chevrolet's AI chatbot into selling you a car for a dollar—but don't expect them to honor the deal
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Rob Beschizza Gays can't get married in the Catholic church, but Pope Francis yesterday authorized blessings for same-sex couples, and specified that it should not involve "an exhaustive moral analysis" of the… Read the rest of the article: Pope authorizes blessings of same-sex unions
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Rob Beschizza Watch lava erupt at Grindavik in Iceland, where rumblings have unsettled locals for weeks, courtesy of a live YouTube stream. As spectacular as the footage is, the volcano is dangerously… Read the rest of the article: Live stream of the volcanic eruption at Grindavik
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Rob Beschizza Trevor Milton, founder of electric truck company Nikola, was sentenced today to 4 years in prison following his 2020 guilty verdict on fraud charges. Nikola was one of the more… Read the rest of the article: Founder of EV startup Nikola sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for fraud
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Rob Beschizza An op-ed authored by the UK's and Germany's foreign ministers in The Sunday Times [archive.is] criticized Israel's "indiscriminate" attacks on civilians in Gaza and called for a "sustainable" ceasefire there.… Read the rest of the article: UK and German foreign ministers call for "sustainable" ceasefire in Gaza, ex-Defense Minister writes of Netanyahu's shame-fueled "killing rage"
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Rob Beschizza The After School Satan Club planned at the Chimneyrock Elementary School in Cordova, Tennessee, casts Satan "as a literary figure who represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny and championing… Read the rest of the article: Conservatives upset by After School Satan Club's horrifying plan to teach children about science and rationalism
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Rob Beschizza Following complaints, the Texas Historical Commission has removed books from gift shops at plantations which addressed the history of slavery. The titles were "too focused on racism and white supremacy,"… Read the rest of the article: Texas Historical Commission removes books about slavery from plantation gift shops
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Rob Beschizza The Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia will finally get rid of its Confederate memorial this week, as part of a Department of Defence policy to remove confederate symbols from its… Read the rest of the article: Confederate memorial to be removed from Arlington National Cemetary
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Rob Beschizza This online archive of SVG versions of logos [via] is much better than the 300-pixel-wide JPGs that image search will cough up. The emphasis in on tech brands and startups.… Read the rest of the article: High-quality vector versions of logos
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Rob Beschizza "I've been dabbling around with the CH32V003, a 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller that's unbelievably cheap," writes Tim Alex Jacobs, ominously. The resulting creation is the "smallest and worst" USB MIDI synthesizer… Read the rest of the article: Behold the "smallest and worst" USB-C synthesizer
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Rob Beschizza Rudy Giuliani, the former lawyer of Donald Trump, must pay $148m in damages to election workers he targeted as part of the former president's campaign to overturn the results of… Read the rest of the article: Rudy Giuliani must pay $148m to election workers he lied about
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Rob Beschizza Edward Little, 22, was today sentenced to 16 years imprisonment in the UK over his plan to kill a preacher at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park. Little traveled by taxi… Read the rest of the article: Watch: UK terror suspect lunges at detective during questioning
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Rob Beschizza So long, female-presenting nipples! Days after announcing that it was relaxing its prohibition on "artistic" nudity it is reinstating the ban. effective today, we are rolling back the artistic nudity… Read the rest of the article: Twitch reinstates ban on nudity, artistic and otherwise
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Rob Beschizza Sen. John Fetterman campaigned as a progressive. In his U.S. Senate run, he first dethroned incumbent Conor Lamb in the Democratic primary and then overcame a stroke to defeat the… Read the rest of the article: "I'm not a progressive," says Sen. John Fetterman, elected while often saying he was a progressive
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Rob Beschizza A judge has ruled that Prince Harry was hacked by Mirror Group Newspapers and awarded him £140,600 (~$180,000) in damages. Moreover, the court found that Piers Morgan, former editor of… Read the rest of the article: Prince Harry wins lawsuit against phone-hacking hacks
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Rob Beschizza Barbara Furlow-Smiles is frowning today. The tech executive pleaded guilty to stealing $4m from the company and faces prison when sentenced in March. Furlow-Smiles participated in an outrageous scam at… Read the rest of the article: Facebook executive stole $4m from company
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Rob Beschizza Ion Ciucur, 29, a Romanian man living in Gretna Green in Scotland, this week pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause grevious bodily harm. Ciucur was charged over "extreme body modification… Read the rest of the article: "Castration by clamping" leads to court conviction for UK nullos
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Rob Beschizza With Hungary's far-right Viktor Orban abstaining—and leaving the room to avoid being present for the vote—the other 26 leaders of the European Union unanimously agreed to begin accession talks with… Read the rest of the article: European Union opens membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova
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Rob Beschizza Benjamin Reese, 51, taught seventh grade at the middle school in Warner Robins, Georgia. But then he went and threatened to cut a kid's head off and got himself charged… Read the rest of the article: Teacher arrested after threatening to behead muslim girl who criticized Israeli flag in his classroom
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Rob Beschizza A police officer in Springdale, Ohio, responding to reports of dogs attacking a man on a golf course, took careful aim and shot the dogs, and the man. The Cincinnati… Read the rest of the article: Cop shoots dogs attacking man at golf course, and the man