The Dude Whose Brain Turned to Glass
Welcome back to the Abstract! How’s your mental state these days? Feeling burnt out? Well, have I got a story
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The Humane Ai Pin Has Already Been Brought Back to Life
Humane bricked its pricey gadget on Friday afternoon. A short time later, a hacker got the codes to unlock it
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What to Do With Your Defunct Humane Ai Pin
Humane Ai’s Pins stopped working today, turning the year-old wearable into a paperweight. Here are some ideas for what to
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Behind the Blog: Stunt Blogging and the ‘Fuck It’ Paradigm
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of
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The Digital Packrat Manifesto
Amazon’s recent decision to stop allowing people to download copies of their Kindle e-books to a computer has vindicated some
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OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive
Internally called Orion, GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, and it’s first available through the company’s $200 monthly ChatGPT
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Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes AI Porn Machine
On Tuesday, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released a new “open” AI video generation model called Wan 2.1 and shared the
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Instagram ‘Error’ Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence
Content warning: this article contains graphic descriptions of violence against people and animals. An “error” in Instagram Reels caused its
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AT&T Hacker Tried to Sell Stolen Data to Foreign Government
A U.S. soldier who recently pleaded guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon communicated with an email address that he believed
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DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator
Elon Musk’s men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and
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