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For the first time, scientists catch shifting clouds on an alien world
Trending Now Say More Look Up In My Bag Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable @Home Mashable Selects Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook AI at School Safety Net All Series Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the clouds . Through 17 years of reporting, she's covered a variety of topics, including health, business, and government, with a penchant for public records requests. She previously worked for in Norfolk, Virginia, and in Annapolis, Maryland. Her work has earned numerous state awards, including the Virginia Press Association's top honor, Best in Show, and national recognition for narrative storytelling. For each year she has covered space, Sauers has won National Headliner Awards, including first place for her Sex in Space series.
The Politics of Solar Energy Are Getting Weird, Mean, and a Little MAGA
A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season. A mysteriously named political action committee has started running ads reminding voters in Colorado about that time GOP representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado and her date were caught on camera in 2023 getting handsy during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice . That same PAC is producing a spot hitting Anthony Constantino, a Trumpist congressional candidate in upstate New York, because someone used his sticker-printing company to briefly make stickers that read, " Kill the Police ." Attack ads are everywhere in the last month ahead of November's election. But these spots are a little different.
Ever wanted to train your own AI? This free Google tool makes it easy
The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Ever wanted to train your own AI? Google's Teachable Machine lets you build and train your own AI models without any coding skills. You can teach your models to recognize objects, sounds, and even body poses. Google Labs has a really cool project called Teachable Machine, which allows you to create and train your own basic AI model.
Wayfair among firms fined millions for misleading sales tactics
Wayfair is among three firms which have been fined £6m in total by the competition watchdog for illegally using misleading sales tactics - with some customers set to receive refunds. The online furniture retailer was fined £4.8m for misleading customers with time-limited offers, while online electronics seller Appliances Direct was fined £1.2m for the same practice, the Competition Markets Authority (CMA) said. Meanwhile, Gold's Gym has been fined £48,000 by the CMA for not telling customers the total price of memberships. Appliances Direct and Gold's Gym have been ordered to refund customers a total of £440,000. The BBC has contacted the three companies for comment. Thousands of Appliances Direct customers will receive refunds of £25 each on average while 726 Gold's Gym customers will get refunds of up to £50, according to the CMA.
Nvidia, worth 5.5tn, donates 250m to UK for AI safety research
Nvidia says most of the money will'support the wider UK AI safety and security research community'. Nvidia says most of the money will'support the wider UK AI safety and security research community'. Pledge spanning five years from world's most valuable firm comes as concerns about AI agents have risen US chipmaker Nvidia is donating $250m worth of computing power to the UK to support AI safety research. The donation from the world's most valuable company comes as the UK government confirmed its AI Security Institute, which tests advance AI models, will be able to examine cutting-edge technology developed by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google before they are released. Nvidia said the donation, which spans five years, would "support agentic safety and security research across the UK".
Burnham had two hospitality dinners with Man City chairman, deleted records show
Andy Burnham had two hospitality dinners with Manchester City football club's chairman while mayor of Greater Manchester, it has emerged. The PM dined with Khaldoon Al Mubarak at matches in 2017 and 2018 - but this was not detailed in a statement on Monday by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) about his meetings with the club. Burnham has been under pressure to clarify his previous discussions with Man City since the club was found guilty of having systematically broken Premier League rules, which it will appeal. The PM, who was mayor until June, sparked widespread controversy when he said last month he would be really concerned if the club's owners now sold up. On Monday, the GMCA released a statement about Burnham's meetings with Man City in his role as mayor for the region for almost a decade.
VisionQuest Puts a Frustratingly Conventional End to Marvel's WandaVision Trilogy
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Tool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism
A previously unreported cache of law enforcement and intelligence agency documents show that law enforcement agencies have, since 2021, considered AI both a tool and a target of would-be terrorists. A previously unreported cache of law enforcement and intelligence agency documents show that law enforcement agencies have, since 2021, considered AI both a tool and a target of would-be terrorists. For many, it was a wake up call about the threats to reproductive care facilities. For the FBI, though, it was also a sign of what the agency had feared for years: bad actors were using generative AI to plan and execute terror plots. The suspect used an unnamed generative AI tool that failed to detect his request for bomb-making instructions, law enforcement officers wrote in a previously unreported document reviewed by the Guardian.