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You could be visiting a poor doctor because AI is filling the web with fake online reviews

If you’ve ever picked a doctor based on online reviews, a new study from Simon Fraser University has some bad news for you.  Apparently, fake clinician reviews generated without using AI read more believable than genuine ones. Unsplash So what exactly did this study find? Researchers reviewed 35,000 physician and dentist reviews collected in India […]

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Behold, My Mini Arcade Machine Collection And Obsession

I first discovered New Wave Toys and this entire collecting industry in October 2020, which is when I bought my first cabinet: “Street Fighter II: Champion Edition.” The company began with “Centipede” in 2018, which was followed by “Tempest,” “Street Fighter II,” “Dragon’s Lair,” “Asteroids,” “1942 & 1943,” “Q-Bert,” “Missile Command,” “Food Fight,” “Space Ace,” […]

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China-linked hackers backdoored executives’ laptops via USB, exploiting a fix companies had but weren’t using

A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the group as OVERCAST PANDA, disclosed […]