A wild story, something out of a dystopian war novel: Ukrainian soldier escapes on e-bike delivered by drone
Author: Patrick
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Aura farming
According to the website Know Your Meme, the expression was popularized in 2024 largely in reference to anime characters and various celebrities. It generally refers to someone who does something repetitive to look cool and build, as Gen Alpha would say, aura.
The phrase, aura farming, has risen in pop culture because of an Indonesian boat racer.
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Subliminal AI messages
Different AI models can send subliminal messages to other models.
Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports.
Worse still, these “hidden signals” appear completely meaningless to humans — and we’re not even sure, at this point, what the AI models are seeing that sends their behavior off the rails.
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Niche Internet forums thriving
Delve deep into a hobby, and you will surely come across websites dedicated to those specific interests. Forums, with old school topic and thread organization still thrive. Here is a great listing of forum communities that are still active.
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Walk off win via catcher in interference
Bases loaded. Bottom of the 10th. Walk off win through catcher interference, which hasn’t happened since 1971.
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Tarantulas in cake boxes
Tarantulas are mostly harmless, but in Germany, a nightmare feel scenario appeared: approximately 1500 tarantulas being smuggled in cake boxes.
Customs officials said on Monday they had found the shipment at Cologne Bonn airport in a package that had arrived from Vietnam. A Cologne customs office spokesperson, Jens Ahland, said they had been tipped off by a “noticeable smell” that did not resemble the expected aroma of the 7kg (about 15lb) of the confectionery treats.
“My colleagues at the airport are regularly surprised by the contents of prohibited packages from all over the world, but the fact that they found around 1,500 small plastic containers containing young tarantulas in this package left even the most experienced among them speechless,” Ahland said in a statement.
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Marine ranching
Artificial reefs to develop fishing populations isn’t a new thing. China, however, is scaling the concept to a degree where they have developed “marine ranches” that provide fishing stock for large populations.
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Clay the Claymore Plush
Do you need to add a stuffed, explosive combat ordinance plush to your collection? Well, now you can with Clay the Claymore plush.
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T-Rex Racing
Lyndsey Wasson went to the Emerald Downs Racetrack in Auburn Washington to capture the T-Rex Racing Championship.