Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images A 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher, Suchir Balaji, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in recent weeks, CNBC has confirmed. Balaji left OpenAI earlier this year and raised concerns publicly that the company had allegedly violated U.S. copyright law while developing its popular ChatGPT chatbot. “The manner
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Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise. The government of Syria had fallen.  Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow.  In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus. Syria had been in the hands of dictators from
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Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow Why read one holiday horror story when you could read 17? Christmas and Other Horrors, edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, features new horror stories about Christmas and the winter solstice by many of your favorite horror authors, including Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Josh Malerman,
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Dec 13, 2024The Hacker NewsLinux / Vulnerability A security flaw has been disclosed in OpenWrt‘s Attended Sysupgrade (ASU) feature that, if successfully exploited, could have been abused to distribute malicious firmware packages. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-54143, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10, indicating critical severity. Flatt Security researcher
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Christmas time is here — so where can you watch A Charlie Brown Christmas this year? Originally broadcast in 1965 on CBS, the network aired the first Peanuts holiday special annually until 2000. The timeless yuletide tradition then moved to ABC, airing there every year until 2019, when Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of Peanuts gang found a
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The murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, America’s largest health insurer, has generated a lot of discourse over the past week and renewed conversation about the state of the U.S. health care system — something that was almost entirely missing from the 2024 campaign.  Social media users have actively celebrated the shooting and thirsted over
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Paramount Pictures’ ‘September 5’, the film that unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today, set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. the film that unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today, set during the 1972 Munich Summer
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This is… definitely very different from the original. Today, Snoop Dogg released a new album called Missionary, which was produced by the legendary Dr. Dre and includes country star, and former rapper, Jelly Roll on a song called “Last Dance With Mary Jane” which yes, interpolates the Tom Petty classic “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.” Snoop
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Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Dec. 4, had a significant online footprint before most web platforms suspended his accounts. These profiles seemed to reveal a healthy, accomplished, well-adjusted young man — though there were red flags, such as his admiring review
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Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks at the Anti-Corruption Champions Award Ceremony at the Department of State in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 9, 2024. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after being injured while traveling with a congressional delegation in Luxembourg, her office said Friday. Pelosi, 84, “sustained an
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The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose slightly on Friday as investors look ahead to the Federal Reserve’s final meeting of the year. The 10-year Treasury yield was up more than 7 basis points at 4.395% after jumping more than 6 basis points on Thursday to climb above the 4.3% level. The benchmark yield hit a
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