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Is the Pope Opening the Tomb of Lucifer? What People Are Getting Wrong This Week
Spurred on by a New York Post story about Pope Francis opening “five sacred portals” this Christmas, the goofier corners of the social media world are breathlessly sharing warnings that the Pope is planning to open the “Tomb of Lucifer,” or the Devil’s Tomb this holiday season. The TikTok video below, from GraceXDigital, has been viewed more than 2 million…
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What Went Wrong This Year?
In the fast-paced world of innovation, every breakthrough carries the risk of missteps, miscalculations, or under-delivering promises. The biggest tech story of 2024 — the CrowdStrike outage that affected businesses and consumers nationwide — was also one of the year’s most notable failures. But the CrowdStrike story is more than just a tale of failure — it’s also a testament…
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TikTok Influencers Are Wrong About Hackers Stealing Credit Card Information Over AirDrop
Before I get started: No, people can’t steal your credit card information using AirDrop. AirDrop doesn’t even know what your credit card number is. In a hoax that’s been spreading around TikTok as of late (the source of the rumor is unclear), viral videos are now saying that hackers can use the iPhone’s AirDrop feature to steal your credit card…
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Apple’s heading in the wrong direction with the iPhone 17 Air — here’s why
Rumors of the iPhone 17 Slim or iPhone 17 Air have been steadily flowing over the past few weeks. While the sources are split on whether this will replace the Plus models, or be a new fifth type of iPhone, it’s sounding like Apple’s next attempt to find another successful branch of the iPhone family tree alongside the basic, Pro…
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What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The Facebook Serial Killer
This week, I’m looking at two fictional characters shaped by the collective unconscious of the internet. The first is “Robert Thibodeau,” a serial killer terrorizing Facebook so hard that people have to share his image. The second is Elon Man, the heroic, fictional version of Elon Musk whose daring deeds are recounted nightly around the digital campfire of the social…
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OpenAI’s SimpleQA tool for discerning genAI accuracy — right message, wrong messenger – Computerworld
OpenAI pretty much concedes this in the report: “In this work, we will sidestep the open-endedness of language models by considering only short, fact-seeking questions with a single answer. This reduction of scope is important because it makes measuring factuality much more tractable, albeit at the cost of leaving open research questions such as whether improved behavior on short-form factuality…
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LinkedIn’s AI positivity is taking us in the wrong direction
There is no hype train like a LinkedIn hype train. By this point, we’ve all been hit by one – particularly when it comes to AI. A platform that automatically opts you in for having your content scraped by the (at times) technological equivalent of a million tiny vultures can hardly claim it is agnostic on the topic of AI.…
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You Could Be Treating Your Cuts the Wrong Way
Don’t “air it out.” Put down the hydrogen peroxide. Here’s what to do to prevent infection and hasten healing. By Ashley Abramson Cuts, or wounds that break the skin, are one of the most common injuries. They can vary in severity, but most minor wounds can usually be treated at home without any major problems. Still, whether you slice your…
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4 Things People Get Wrong About Head Lice
The truth: Lice, which are wingless, don’t jump or fly. They don’t hop from place to place, either. They can crawl, however, and very quickly, because their legs are very well adapted for crawling. And once they crawl onto a child’s head, they tend to hang on tightly, thanks to the hooklike claws they have at the end of their…
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Why TikTok Is Wrong About ‘Toxic’ Air Fryers
We may earn a commission from links on this page. According to legions of TikTokers, I should throw away my air fryer, and you should too. It’s supposedly filling your body with “forever chemicals” and probably giving you cancer. These aren’t realistic fears, though. Let’s break down the truth, and then look at where this TikTok trend is coming from,…
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