Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp. At a US military base in central California, four-seater all-terrain vehicles roam hillside trails. This is a training exercise, but not for the people in the vehicles: This is an effort to train AI models to enter conflict zones.  The autonomous military ATVs are operated by Scout AI, a...

New images show suspect taking selfies before Washington press dinner shootingWatch: 'Are they gunshots?' BBC correspondent's minute-by-minute account of dinner shootingNew images included in a memorandum filed by the US government show Cole Tomas Allen - the man accused of opening fire at a White House Correspondents' dinner last weekend - with weapons in a hotel room before the attack....

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for March 26, #549 Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle No. 549 for Thursday, March 26. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as...

The Internet Is Wrong: You Can't Speed Up a Smart TV That's SlowI don't know how misinformation about TVs spreads. Actually, that's not true, I absolutely do. Uninformed people make a claim online; it gets repeated as received wisdom; Reddit references it; and ChatGPT and other large language models use those posts as sources. As someone who has reviewed TVs since the early 2000s, and...

Dental practice software maker fixes bug that exposed patients’ medical records Practice by Numbers, the developer of a patient management software used in thousands of dentist’s offices, has fixed a security flaw that exposed the private health records of patients on a portal that comes bundled with the software, TechCrunch has learned. One patient, Joseph R. Cox, reported the bug to...