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Trump Mobile. Trump Steaks. Trump Coin. Trump Vodka. By this point, you know the drill.The president’s latest personal venture doesn’t bear his name, but it does come with all the signature hallmarks of a Trump brand: it’s garish, incredibly shady, and likely to implode sooner rather than later.Called Freedom Fuel Network, the enterprise encompasses dozens of gas stations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, USA Today reported, although it isn’t exactly clear which locations are open for business. Plastered in American flag decals and “Freedom Fuel” branding, the gas stations seem to be selling unleaded gasoline for the fixed-price of $3.47…

What does it take to keep a county of fewer than 400,000 people safe? For one North Carolina district, the answer to that question includes at least one humanoid robot.In an interview with local station WXII 12, Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough introduced his department’s newest toy: a Unitree G1. Introduced as part of a collaboration with the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts and Center for Design Innovation, the robo-deputy is meant to stand-in for human cops during intense standoffs.“We can send the humanoid into that same situation and accomplish the same thing: hostage negotiations, breach the…

A gut-busting parasite that’s known to cause “weeks of debilitating diarrhea” is spreading across the United States — and investigators are racing to understand what’s behind recent outbreaks.The intestinal infection, called cyclosporiasis, is caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, and is known to cause frequent — and often explosive — watery diarrhea. The foodborne pathogen is typically linked to imported fresh produce, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and spreads when people ingest food or water that was contaminated with feces.The official data is a bit of a mess as of right now. The CDC’s official…

Waymo’s fleet of autonomous taxis has garnered a reputation for causing mayhem on public streets, from trapping drivers in hours of hopeless gridlock to driving into oncoming traffic.The fact that there isn’t any adult supervision in the form of a driver has led to plenty of debaucherous behavior, from incessant smoking and adult activities to posses of teens hanging out of the windows of moving Waymos.But now, in a rare — and perhaps much-needed — win, a Waymo vehicle took matters into its own hands by delivering two 15-year-lds, who were drinking alcohol and shooting water beads known as Orbeez…

By now, it’s clear that the only way the tech industry can justify the cost of AI is if it replaces vast swaths of the human workforce with machines that run 24/7. The bad news is that this situation has created a world-historic financial market that, by some metrics, is looking worse than the run-up to the Great Depression. The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking increasingly unlikely, at least at the industry’s current pace, a fact which is now dawning on some of the biggest rubes and dupes in the corporate world.According to…

Police in British Columbia are investigating after a viral video shows a woman fast asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla traveling at highway speeds.As the CBC reports, motorist Carleigh King spotted the woman with her head slumped to her side while wearing large, wraparound sunglasses. Her eyes are shut, indicating she’s fast asleep.While officials have yet to confirm whether the driver had turned on Tesla’s controversial advanced driver assistance software, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time. We’ve consistently come across reports of people asleep behind the wheel of the vehicles for years now.Worse yet, last year Tesla started…

AI’s promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your “second brain,” to invent “new physics,” or to become the genius autodidact you always dreamed of being.Or you can drop these pretensions and just use it to crank out unimaginable amounts of fetish slop, as a group of researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Boulder currently in the middle of pouring bleach on their eyeballs inadvertently discovered.While analyzing a dataset comprising millions of conversations with an old version of ChatGPT, these innocent academics encountered a user who is — it’s no exaggeration…

When most of us hear about freak tornadoes, we assume they’re ripping through trailer parks in Oklahoma — not high-rises in central China. Yet that’s exactly what happened late Monday night in China’s Hubei province, when extremely powerful storms tore through Huanggang city, sucking a man straight out of his 12th-story apartment. Miraculously, the 30-year-old man survived, CNN reports, and is currently in an intensive care unit.The gales were so strong that they reportedly ripped his cabinets out of the walls and his couch off the floor, while semi trucks across Huanggang were flung as far as 100 feet, CNN…

Anthropic, the self-avowed moral center of the AI industry, has been caught spying on its users.As Ars Technica reports, a security researcher last week uncovered spyware-like code in the company’s Claude Code AI model designed to collect data on Chinese users without detection. The researcher, known by the pseudonym “Thereallo,” found that the code was hidden in the AI’s system prompt, allowing it track a user’s system timezone and usage of a proxy server in order to suss out if they were connected to specific Chinese AI labs.Anthropic’s explanation for this huge breach in user trust left much to be desired.…

Last month, the Trump administration forced AI company Anthropic to withdraw its most powerful Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models, citing “national security” issues. The government had gotten wind that Fable 5’s internal safety guardrails could be circumvented or “jailbroken,” in major vulnerabilities that spooked officials.Anthropic itself has long warned that its latest models are adept at spotting cybersecurity vulnerabilities that can be exploited by bad actors. Up until the government clamped down, the company had only given a limited number of businesses and institutions access to Mythos 5, the more powerful and less restrained of the two models,…