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    Celebrate Halloween with 20 of our favorite horror comedies

    There was also a sequel. Too bad the 3rd film never happened.
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    Celebrate Halloween with 20 of our favorite horror comedies

    Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is also a decent horror comedy.
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    Apple is turning The Oregon Trail into a movie

    If they want to appeal to the potential audience's nostalgia about the game, I think there should be some connection to the actual game in the plot, not just from the title. Maybe the story can start out with an Oregon Trail player who somehow got sucked into the game-verse. Edit: Don't make it...
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    Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings

    When I worked at a doctor's office in my younger days, they used human transcription service, which sent back proofs before finalizing the documents. I think Dragon Speech later became the norm for many doctors who prefer software over human transcriptionists. Dragon is also supposed to be HIPPA...
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    THC-tainted pizza sickens dozens in Wisc.; Owner blames oil bottle mix-up

    I'm picturing a Kitchen Nightmare scenario with Gordon Ramsay brutally tearing into the owner after inspecting their premises.
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    Shady drugmaker sold DIY weight-loss drug marked for animal use, suit alleges

    I was looking up the solubility. Tirzepatide doesn't seem to be soluble in water. Lilly's own product document says Mounjaro is dissolved in PBS. Assuming that the peptide is manufactured correctly and undergoes proper QC, shipping everything sterile to patients and expecting them to mix and...
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    Tesla, Warner Bros. sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery

    Just want to share a couple of relevant links. The first one is an article written back in January on potential visual plagiarism and copyright issues associated with AI: Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield The second link is the comics short story The Long...
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    Tesla, Warner Bros. sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery

    I think Alcon should've stuck to the evidence instead of arguing that Elon Musk being a polarizing political figure would hurt the Alcon brand by association. It sounded like if Elon was apolitical or if he supported Biden/Harris, Alcon wouldn't have minded. Copyright infringement is copyright...
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    Deepfake lovers swindle victims out of $46M in Hong Kong AI scam

    I believe that's exactly what Ashley Madison did to lure gullible horny men, with tons of fake profiles of women.
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    Deepfake lovers swindle victims out of $46M in Hong Kong AI scam

    Ah yes, the Hong Kong triad, such a multidisciplinary organization. If they can't hack you to death with watermelon knives, they'll steal your money with deepfake girlfriends.
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    FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills

    I think we really need to ask ISPs to justify the rates they charge per unit data transfer. Sure there are costs associated with infrastructures and personnel etc, but with advances in technology and home internet being used for everything from homework to gaming and movie streaming, are ISPs...
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    Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today

    MS wanted to be able to say, 'Our Windows go to 11.' That was exactly why users who were on Windows 7 skipped Windows 8 and waited for Windows 10.
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    Record labels win again—court says ISP must terminate users accused of piracy

    My understanding is that when Net Neutrality was passed, broadband was classified as a utility, and then NN was rolled back under Trump, but now it's restored again. Per FCC, the effective date was July 22, 2024. That means broadband is indeed considered a utility service currently.
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    Rare bear meat at gathering gives 10 people a scare—and parasitic worms

    After millions of years of evolution, some humans still want to eat like they haven't discovered fire.
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    Nautilus trailer explores Captain Nemo’s origins

    I first read the Chinese-translated version of Mysterious Island as a teenager and totally loved it. I hope Amazon doesn't screw this one up. The trailer probably could've been done a little better, maybe the Nautilus shouldn't have been revealed so explicitly.
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    Diablo IV is in a great place, whether you buy Vessel of Hatred or not

    I've never played this, but based on what's said here, all the updates and fixes seem to be quite significant. It sounds like Blizzard released a public beta and is still tinkering with it while getting money from players. Why do we let game companies get away with that?
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    Study: Fastest way to get revenge porn off X is a DMCA takedown

    It takes very little effort to click on the first link in the opening paragraph to get to the PDF file of the study, which details the methodology and results. As a research paper, It still needs to be peer reviewed before publication, but this isn't some amateur social experiment done on a whim.
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    Your doctor’s office could be reading your blood pressure all wrong

    I don't know about continuous readings, but for bedridden patients in the hospital, the standard practice I've seen is multiple readings each day, once every few hours. The nurses would normally take it from the upper arm, but if they cannot access it, they'd do it on the calf, which gives...
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    Neighbors sue over loud Bitcoin mine

    Maybe this is what caused the mysterious Havana Syndrome at the American embassy in Cuba. The Cubans must've been mining bitcoins like crazy next door.
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    Why trolls, extremists, and others spread conspiracy theories they don’t believe

    It's nice that they formally categorized the conspiracy theorists for academic purposes, but it's always been kind of obvious that there are real believers vs. rage baiters vs. opportunists etc. I rolled my eyes a bit when the article started out with 'My colleagues and I have found that there...