The Biggest AI Risk Isn’t Hallucinations. It’s Skill Decay.

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An ambient AI scribe, a program that listens to a patient-clinician conversation and generates a clinical note, documented that a medicine had been prescribed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. However, neither the medicine nor the diagnosis were discussed - this was a complete hallucination.

Your Samsung Gallery won't be able to sync with Microsoft OneDrive soon - Engadget

Your photos don't have to go home, but they can't stay here.

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Those who've been Samsung Galaxy owners for long enough will no doubt have experienced a pop-up or prompt on their device encouraging users to back up their photos and videos to Microsoft OneDrive. Samsung sits in a unique position within the modern computing ecosystem. Its most popular devices run Google's Android operating system, but it also makes a healthy number of Windows PCs. It therefore has strong ties with both companies, but that integration with OneDrive is coming undone in the near future.

Inside the marriage of Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for nearly four weeks, with few details available about his health, prompting growing questions about his condition and what members of his inner circle, including his wife, Elaine Chao, have been told.

Why Do You Still Love Your Car? - Jalopnik

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It's easy to love your car when you first get it. There's a sense of newness and buzzy excitement around a new car. Presumably you spent a lot of money on it, and you want to justify it to yourself and others how great an idea it was and worth every penny to boot. But after you've had your car for a few years and the new and special has worn off, what keeps you coming back to it? Do you still love your car in the same way you did when you bought it, or are you kind of ready to move on to something else? Do you still have (and love) your first car?

Experimental drug reverses severe fatty liver disease by repairing the gut

An experimental drug developed at Michigan Medicine has shown the ability to reverse severe fatty liver disease in animal studies by restoring gut health. The findings, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggest that targeting the connection between the gut and liver could offer a promising new approach for treating metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH).

Engadget Indie Pitch: Penguin Colony - Engadget

“You won’t know until you do and then it is too late.”

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There are so many rad and important games coming out from smaller studios all the time, and the Engadget Indie Pitch is here to highlight some that you simply must see.

Drones are detecting more sharks at US beaches but do they make public safer?

Experts say that despite recent increased investment in drones to monitor for sharks in states like New York, the machines have limited usefulness as a public safety tool and there does not appear to be evidence that the threat to swimmers from sharks has increased.

Victor Wembanyama's New Contract Could Break The NBA's Balance Of Power

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Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France

Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction.

In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted 119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent), or about a third of those of France.

Levi Bellfield to have DNA test in connection with Lin and Megan Russell murders

The serial killer Levi Bellfield will have his DNA taken in an attempt to establish if he murdered Lin and Megan Russell in 1996.

Michael Stone has protested his innocence since his conviction in 1998 for the killing of Lin, 45, and her daughter, six-year-old Megan, as well as a vicious attack on Megan’s sister Josie, nine, who survived.