Hacker Conference HOPE Says U.S. Immigration Crackdown Caused Massive Crash in Ticket Sales

Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE), the iconic and long-running hacking conference, says far fewer people have bought tickets for the event this year as compared to last, with organizers believing it is due to the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and more aggressive detainment of travellers into the U.S. “We are roughly 50 percent behind…

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Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is ‘Insult to Life Itself,” Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI

On Tuesday, OpenAI updated ChatGPT with new AI image generation capabilities that make it especially good at recreating specific visual styles. People trying the new feature immediately flooded social media with images in the style of Studio Ghibli and Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, who famously called artificial intelligence “an insult to life itself.” Miyazaki’s…

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Kickstarter Introduces ‘Tariff Manager Tool’ to Add Charges to Already Fully Funded Projects

Here’s an easy to understand example of how Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported products have completely screwed small U.S. businesses and entrepreneurs: the crowdfunding site Kickstarter is introducing a “Tariff Manager tool” that will allow creators to add extra charges to projects that were already fully funded in order to deal with the higher and…

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What is Deepseek, Chinese AI model that rattled Chatgpt, Nvidia and freaked out AI world: Explained in 10 points

Deepseek has captured the attention of the tech world, surpassing the likes of other leading AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude in terms of performance. The Chinese AI chatbox was reportedly developed for a fraction of the cost of its rivals, which has spooked the global AI market. DeepSeek’s emergence comes as the US…

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Earth Was Mysteriously Thrown Off-Kilter In 2015. Now, Scientists Think They Know Why.

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Have you noticed anything out of whack about Earth since 2015? I’m speaking, of course, about how our planet’s wobble started shrinking that year, a mysterious shift that scientists have been…

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