Man arrested for faking heart attack 20 times at restaurants to avoid paying bill

Amazon sold bottles of urine marketed as an energy drink, a new documentary alleges. […] attained number one bestseller status in the “Bitter Lemon” category.

Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum

Your Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Train Generative AI Models — Meta has said its latest AI was partially trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts. According to Elon Musk, the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) plans to do the same with its own users’ content. Amazon, too, says it will use voice data from customers’ Alexa conversations to train its new LLM.

Biopiracy: when indigenous knowledge is patented for profit

Frying pan company sued for claiming temperatures that rival the Sun

In an unusual trial, Stanford Medicine researchers found that a patient’s belief that they had received ketamine, even if they didn’t, could improve their depression.

The Notorious Arrest of Cecil George Edwards

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