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Kyle Orland, Ars Technica

Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

The new frontier in large language models is the ability to “reason” their way through problems. New research from Apple says it's not quite what it's cracked up to be.

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Jack Milko

PGA Tour’s Tom Kim applauds Fall schedule, despite late round collapse in Memphis

Tom Kim salutes the crowd at the 2024 Presidents Cup. | Photo by Vincent Ethier/Getty Images

Ahead of this week’s Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas, defending champion Tom Kim commended the PGA Tour’s current structure.

Maybe it’s because he has won the Shriners Children’s Open two years in a row. Or perhaps it’s because Tom Kim is only 22 years old—a man whose energy is comparable to the Energizer Bunny, as he seems to play almost every week.

Regardless of the...

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Is 'The Wild Robot' streaming? Here's how to watch it at home.

How to watch 'The Wild Robot' at a glance: BEST WAY TO WATCH NOW Rent or buy 'The Wild Robot' on YouTube $19.99 or $29.99 ...

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It’s About To Get Dark Earlier, So Here Are 27 Things To Keep Kids Entertained While Inside

Just a few fun things to get you and your kiddos through the inside cat months.

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Umar Shakir

YouTube takes a baby step towards labeling authentic video

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound. The new “captured with a camera” label can be seen in action courtesy of digital content authentication service Trupic, which uploaded a video to its channel, triggering the disclosure in the video description panel. Trupic says it has the “first authentic video with C2PA Content Credentials on YouTube.”

YouTube is...

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Emma Roth

The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images

The Federal Communications Commission is officially looking into broadband data caps and their impact on consumers. On Tuesday, the FCC approved a notice of inquiry to examine whether data caps harm consumers and competition, as well as why data caps persist “despite increased broadband needs” and the “technical ability to offer unlimited data plans,” as spotted earlier by Engadget.

Many internet plans come...

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Gaby Del Valle

Trump’s crypto website crashed after its token went on sale

Image: Laura Normand / The Verge

Former President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency project, World Liberty Financial, launched its token sale on Tuesday — and its website crashed shortly afterward.

The whitelist for the much-hyped but still largely unexplained decentralized finance project opened on September 30th for accredited investors and non-US persons. World Liberty Financial co-founder Zach Folkman claimed on Monday that “well over 100,000 people” had signed up to buy its...

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Lisa Friedman

The Flood-Protection Rule That Trump Rolled Back

A Trump-era rollback of flood-protection rules has left critical infrastructure projects at higher risk, experts say.

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Austyn Gaffney

Babcock Ranch in Florida Offered Shelter During Hurricane Milton

On the west coast of Florida, a town built to weather hurricanes hosted more than 2,000 people during Hurricane Milton. Could communities like this help shape Florida’s future?

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Madeleine Ngo

Small Business Administration Depletes Disaster Loan Funds

Federal officials urged people to keep applying for the loans, which they said they would continue to process while awaiting more funding from Congress, which is not set to reconvene until Nov. 12.

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Emily Cochrane

Nearly 100 People Are Still Missing in North Carolina After Hurricane Helene

Search and rescue teams are still looking for the missing, officials said, with 95 deaths already attributed to the storm’s wrath in the state.

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Alan Blinder

Georgia Officials Report Record Turnout on First Day of Early Voting

Democrats and Republicans alike have crusaded for residents to get to the polls early as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris aggressively seek the state’s 16 electoral votes.

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Michael Gold

In Bloomberg Interview, Trump Declines to Comment on Speaking With Putin

Donald J. Trump declined to comment on whether he’d talked with the Russian president since leaving office. But he added, “If I have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing.”

BuzzFeed - Latest

28 Problem-Solving Beauty Products For Those Issues You Didn’t Even Know Had Legit Solutions

Like a skin-tightening cream, collagen hair treatment, and a $5 viral mascara.

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Jess Weatherbed

Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear

Project “Clean Machine” easily removes distracting flashes and corrects overexposed footage. | Image: Adobe

Adobe is previewing some experimental AI tools for animation, image generation, and cleaning up video and photographs that could eventually be added to its Creative Cloud apps.

While the tools apply to vastly different mediums, all three have a similar aim — to automate most of the boring, complex tasks required for content creation, and provide creatives more control over...

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Allison Johnson

AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips

An enthusiastic Gelsinger introduced the partnership at today’s conference, hosted by Lenovo. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

Nothing brings rivals together like a common enemy, and in this case it’s the rise of ARM pulling Intel and AMD closer together than ever. The two chip makers — not exactly the friendliest frenemies — are the headlining members of a new x86 Advisory Group to try and defend the platform’s interests against ARM, which finally appears poised to...

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Wes Davis

How this smart garden stopped growing

Image: AeroGarden

AeroGarden, which produces smart indoor planters with built-in grow lamps that work with a connected app, recently announced that it will shutter its business starting on January 1st next year, Ars Technica reported.

The company, which was acquired by Scott’s Miracle-Gro in 2020, says it will update users later on the “longer-term status” of its app, which lets users monitor water levels and set lighting schedules. For now, AeroGarden only says the app will...

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Andrew Liszewski

The new Kindle was briefly on sale and it hasn’t even been announced yet

UK retailer John Lewis is already selling the new Amazon Kindles. | Image: John Lewis

Amazon hasn’t officially announced the next generation of its Kindle e-readers yet, but following leaks of several models, the UK retailer John Lewis was already selling the 12th-gen entry-level Kindle and the new Kindle Kids Edition through its website earlier today, as spotted by Good e-Reader. Both listings have since been taken down.

The 12th-gen Kindle Paperwhite recently popped up in an eBay...

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Michael Crowley, Patrick Kingsley, Ronen Bergman and Michael Levenson

U.S. Warns Israel of Military Aid Cut if Gazans Don’t Get More Supplies

The demand from Israel’s closest ally came amid reports that the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has grown still worse in recent weeks.

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