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"Sammy" (@sumiturkude007) on X wrote "This short film made with Seedance 2.0 is absolutely insane. The realism looks like a real movie — no one can tell it's AI." But that's not the real point. Yeah, it's a good demonstration of AI abilities in March 2026, but it's the theme and plot that get me. They are simultaneously brilliant, sad, and prophetic.

Two weeks after announcing the launch of his "Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour," Bruce Springsteen is catching some heat as fans are left outraged over astronomical ticket prices. "If this concert is meant to be a political statement, dynamic pricing makes no sense... It feels contradictory to defend democracy while playing by pure free-market rules where money decides everything," one fan wrote on Springteen's Instagram post. "Big fan and I’m in for a reasonable price, but I can’t help thinking about those who can’t play this game." "Unfortunately no one can afford to actually go.....," another wrote. "It’s...

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a two-word retort after Anthropic leader Dario Amodei claimed in an interview that he isn’t sure if his company’s AI models have gained consciousness. "Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety," read a post on X by cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket, to which Musk replied, "He’s projecting." The comment from Musk, who is also the founder of xAI, comes as Anthropic is at odds with the Pentagon over its use in a separate matter. In an interview with The New...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four times fewer brain cells, they can play a much more complicated game. … The technology making this possible is the CL-1, a “biological computer” chip. The biological component of the CL-1 system consists of human neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These cells, typically repurposed from adult skin or blood samples, are differentiated in a lab into functional cortical neurons. Once matured, approximately 200,000...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed his wife Rama Duwaji isn’t a public figure Friday – despite receiving fawning media coverage – after facing uproar for her liking social media posts celebrating Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack. The democratic socialist, 34, was confronted during an unrelated event about his 28-year-old artist spouse liking Instagram posts that shared graphic imagery of the terror group’s murderous rampage — in the hours after the attack — and trumpeted anti-Israel rhetoric, Jewish Insider reported. “My wife is the love of my life, and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my...

Keir Starmer has been mercilessly mocked on social media for 'copying Trump' with an 'embarrassing' TikTok video about the Iran conflict. The clip, set to the guitar riff of Dire Straits hit 'Money for Nothing', opens with footage of Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters flying over the Labour leader's head. 'Our number one priority is protecting our people' Sir Keir is heard narrating, with the word 'our' sounding strangely elongated. As more high-octane footage flashes up of F-35 jets on sorties, the Prime Minister continues speaking - although his voice is at times barely audible over the music. Another clip flashes...

With Russian ground troops bogged down in a grinding war of attrition, Moscow is striving to press home its advantage in the skies – through an ever-evolving army of drones, courtesy of Iran. In early January, wreckage of a drone found in Ukraine hinted at a new high-speed model of drone being deployed by Russia in the conflict. It prompted Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to air fears over failing to keep pace. Share article Russia was initially unable to produce large numbers of kamikaze drones,...Tehran had the expertise Russia needed. It also had an existing defense relationship with Russia. Moreover,...

A 4-year-old boy who has autism and is non-verbal went missing from his DeSoto home Sunday afternoon. A police drone spotted him and directed officers to his rescue.The 200 block of Jordan Drive in DeSoto was a buzz of activity on Sunday afternoon, as neighbors joined in a search for a missing 4-year-old boy with autism who is non-verbal, who had wandered away from his home. "Mom radar is all the way up, and I'm just consoling her on the side, because I'm just imagining how she's feeling," neighbor Kandice Middleton said. "It felt like years that we were looking...

One of the co-founders of Xbox recently signaled that the end may be near for the video game console that has shaped generations of gamers. In an interview with Gamesbeat, a business-to-business media outlet for gaming, entertainment, and tech, Seamus Blackley said that Xbox is no longer a priority for Microsoft, which makes the console. Instead, the company is shifting their focus to artificial intelligence. “[Microsoft CEO] Satya Nadella has made an incredible number of bets and invested an incredible amount of money and credibility in the transform model AI future,” Blackley said. “Xbox, like a lot of businesses that...

Listen to this. I think many FReepers will like it.Weaponized Victimhood | The Alchemy of Agony

"Until we have a better plan, we modified our license to exclude residents of California from using MidnightBSD for desktop use, effective January 1, 2027."

A long list of Hollywood A-list talent is joining leftist activist billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs to star in a feature film about climate change. The film appears to be a major effort by a huge number of Hollywood A-listers, including Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Amy Ryan, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany, and Jason Clarke for a film billed as a “darkly comic drama” about global warming. It will be produced by Sony Pictures Classics with Tom McCarthy to direct, Deadline reported. The film, based on the Nathaniel Rich book, Loosing Earth, is supposedly a true story “set at a...

I have yet another(!) electronics' modification project going, and ran across a slight dilemma: None of my several "Security Bit" sets have a bit that fits the Tri-Point (or "Y") screw heads in the gear to be modified, even though 2 sets do have Tri-Point bits. However, I found this screwdriver set on Amazon: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5113Evt3D0L._AC_SL1000_.jpg The question is, looking at that image, are those the correct diameters for the "Y" designation given? Basically, the 3mm for example, would be very close to the circumference of the outer circle the "fins"* of the bit would define. I ask this question because...

How a single hack infected the world’s most important operating system. Video is 53 minutes. Yes it's long, but it goes into all the background of what happened, plus a post-mortem and analysis. This is about the xz compression hack several years ago. I remember hearing about it and being thankful we have unaffiliated people who can test things like this when they see an anomaly in the code/testing they are performing.

I was hoping that this would resolve itself but it has not….. Yesterday, a post was put up on FR and I wanted to see more than just the provided excerpt, so I clicked on the source link.Ever since I did that, every tab that gets opened on my iPad (Safari browser) to an FR forum or page/post, the new tab has the number 2 in white with a blue background preceding the FR forum name or article title.The number font and coloring is identical to the news station’s (2 Idaho News) logo that was used as the source link.Here...

Is it just me or is anybody else noticing that Rumble appears to be DOWN?

..without disks? It's a unique program that I bought ~30 years ago. PC Study Bible. I bought the original version and have paid for the upgrades plus optional add ons. The owner/operator passed and PC Study Bible ceased to exist. Now I want the ability to transfer the program in its entirety from one PC to another.

Your iPhone calendar used to remind you about dentist appointments and dinner reservations. Now? It might be screaming that you’ve “won a prize” — or worse, that your device is infected and your bank account is toast. Welcome to the latest digital headache: a calendar con that’s turning Apple users’ schedules into spam central, per Newsweek. Cybercrooks have figured out a sneaky way to blast iPhones and iPads with bogus alerts — no shady app download required. Instead of slipping malware onto your device, scammers trick users into unknowingly subscribing to rogue calendars. Once you’re in, they’ve got a direct...

Crab Costumes courtesy of "A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox" by Julie Bort, February 23, 2026 Okay, AI is going to take away all serious jobs, we have to reinvent ourselves with a new life mission that's not totally ridiculous make-work, we'll get perhaps $150 per month "guaranteed" minimal income, live in pod communities like the Coppertops in The Matrix, eat bug-burger, "you'll own nothing and be happy". But if it's A.I. that is trying to run down this "you will be assimilated, resistance is futile" trope, they'd better get cracking with...

Samphire Neuroscience offers personalized, at-home neurostimulation that adapts to women’s menstrual symptoms, helping them feel more balanced through hormonal changes. On Feb. 9, the UK-based neurotechnology startup unveiled its latest feature in the health-tech space: a patented, AI-driven neurostimulation session-scheduling system. The feature is called CycleSync, and it’s used in conjunction with Samphire’s wearable devices. The idea is simple: the brain controls key hormones like estrogen and progesterone, which impact the menstrual cycle and can cause symptoms such as mood swings, cravings, pain and fatigue. The brain also runs on electricity — rhythms that shape how you think, feel and...