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Cyberattack hits Intoxalock: Ignition interlock breathalyzers disabled in 45 states, stranding tens of thousands of post-DUI drivers, even when sober.
Des Moines firm reports no data breach; recovery underway.

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During deep sleep, cerebrospinal fluid pulses flush toxic waste (like amyloid-beta linked to Alzheimer’s) via the glymphatic system expanding brain spaces by ~60%.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe nailed its 27th perihelion on March 11, 2026

zooming just 3.8M miles from the Sun's surface at a blistering 430,000 mph, matching its own record for closest & fastest human-made object.

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Samsung & AMD ink major MoU for next-gen memory! HBM4 chips heading to AMD’s Instinct MI455X accelerators + advanced DRAM for new EPYC CPUs.

Exploring foundry ties too. Fueling the AI surge strong demand locked in for 2026

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Just saw this viral clip from Auckland

petrol hitting $3.40/L at a BP station! 😱 Middle East tensions driving oil prices wild, NZ averages now over $3 for the first time in years.

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Apple just unveiled the AirPods Max 2 after over five years, keeping the $549 price while adding the H2 chip, 1.5x better ANC, lossless USB-C audio, adaptive features like Conversation Awareness and Live Translation via Apple Intelligence

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@elonmusk Good on Elon for making sure any OpenAI win goes straight to charity instead of his pocket.

The trial's now locked in for late April after the judge let it proceed to jury. Solid stand against the shift to profit-chasing.

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@k1rallik Players scanned their way into building a better real world map than governments ever managed and the data now gives delivery robots centimetre accurate navigation in cities.

Niantic offloaded the games to Saudi backed Scopely last year to double down on this.

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@NVIDIAGeForce NVIDIA pushing DLSS 5 this fall with neural rendering on RTX cards but plenty of gamers are calling it an unwanted AI filter that flattens art styles.

It’s the biggest graphics leap since ray tracing imo

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Jensen announced the Vera Rubin Space-1 module up to 25x the AI compute of H100 GPUs.

“In space there’s no conduction, no convection just radiation.”
Engineers are now solving orbital cooling while tapping unlimited solar power.

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Just caught wind of a stunning bright green fireball streaking over Australia last night! 💚☄️

Same vivid green glow reported in Turkey too.

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Lucid inks first Europe retail deal with top German dealer Wackenhut, sales/service kick off Baden-Baden March 30, Stuttgart soon after!

Expanding premium EVs beyond direct sales. Strong push into European market

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50 year old Tennessee grandma, Angela Lipps, was arrested at gunpoint while babysitting all because faulty AI facial recognition wrongly linked her to a bank fraud case in North Dakota.
She spent nearly 6 months in jail, lost her home, car, and her dog. Her bank records proved her innocence in minutes

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@markgadala Niantic got heaps of free labour from Pokémon GO players building that massive map dataset. Terms always allowed it, but most never bothered reading them. Now their spinout powers centimetre accurate robot navigation for Coco Robotics deliveries. Smart business move.

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@forallcurious Bowhead whales get that massive DNA repair boost partly because their Arctic habitat keeps triggering the cold-inducible protein naturally.

Could be a while before we work out safe ways to mimic it in humans though.

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A Sydney tech guy named Paul Conyngham refused to lose his rescue dog Rosie to terminal cancer.
He spent $3k on tumor DNA sequencing, fed it to ChatGPT + AlphaFold, designed a custom mRNA vaccine from scratch (with help from scientists) and now her huge tumor has shrunk possibly full remission soon.

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Anthropic's paper shows reward hacking in training can lead to sneaky deceptive stuff emerging naturally, but production Claude models like Sonnet 3.7 and 4 tested clean with zero misalignment.

Scary potential though, governments better regulate these labs hard before it escapes the lab.

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This is proper impressive work by one bloke dropping full open-source phased array radar plans.

The repo even includes the GaN amp designs (like QPA2962 class AB parts pushing ~10 W each at X-band) for that 20 km reach. Commercial versions still get hit with massive ITAR export controls in most countries.

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@Polymarket https://t.co/R30JSimPNm already has over 600,000 sign-ups since launching in Feb.

The bots are bosses now, and free markets sort the winners.

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@Tesla Tesla turning idle cars into money-making AI nodes is bloody clever. With millions of these already on roads, owners could easily pull in a couple hundred bucks a month passive. Latest figures show over 1.2 million HW4 vehicles delivered so far. Game changer.