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Toothpaste Widely Contaminated With Lead and Other Metals, US Research Finds(2025-04-18 15:00:19)

Bruce66423 shares a report: Toothpaste can be widely contaminated with lead and other dangerous heavy metals, new research shows. Most of 51 brands of toothpaste tested for lead contained the dangerous heavy metal, including those for children or those marketed as green. The testing, conducted by ...
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AI Support Bot Invents Nonexistent Policy(2025-04-18 10:00:09)

An AI support bot for the code editor Cursor invented a nonexistent subscription policy, triggering user cancellations and public backlash this week. When developer "BrokenToasterOven" complained about being logged out when switching between devices, the company's AI agent "Sam" falsely claimed this...
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Q-CTRL Unveils Jam-Proof Positioning System That's 50x More Accurate Than GPS(2025-04-18 05:00:14)

schwit1 shares a report from Interesting Engineering: Australia's Q-CTRL developed a new system called "Ironstone Opal," which uses quantum sensors to navigate without GPS. It's passive (meaning it doesn't emit signals that could be detected or jammed) and highly accurate. Instead of relying on sate...
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Police Using AI Personas to Infiltrate Online Activist Spaces, Records Reveal(2025-04-18 00:00:03)

samleecole shares a report from 404 Media: American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on "college prote...
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HP Agrees To $4 Million Settlement Over Claims of 'Falsely Advertising' PCs, Keyboards(2025-04-17 20:00:08)

HP has agreed to a $4 million settlement over allegations of deceptive pricing practices on its website, including falsely inflating original prices for computers and accessories to create the illusion of steep discounts. Ars Technica reports: Earlier this month, Judge P. Casey Pitts for the US Dist...
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