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WhatCable Tells You Which USB-C Cable in the Drawer Is the Weak Link tekcrispy.net/systm/tech/wha…

WhatCable Tells You Which USB-C Cable in the Drawer Is the Weak Link

WhatCable is a free macOS menu bar app that reads what your USB-C cable actually negotiated — and names the real bottleneck.

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One Ultrasound Session Ended Her Cravings. The Same Trial Injured Another Brain tekcrispy.net/medicine/one-u…

One Ultrasound Session Ended Her Cravings. The Same Trial Injured Another Brain

Focused ultrasound reaches the brain’s reward center without surgery and can shut down addiction cravings, but safe dosing parameters still don’t exist.

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Connecticut Court Sanctions Litigant Over Hidden AI Prompt Injection tekcrispy.net/artificial-int…

Connecticut Court Sanctions Litigant Over Hidden AI Prompt Injection

A Connecticut court barred a plaintiff from e-filing after hidden prompt-injection text was found in legal filings.

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The US Will Now Let Private Firms Hack Foreign Cybercriminals tekcrispy.net/technology/the…

The US Will Now Let Private Firms Hack Foreign Cybercriminals

The White House will let vetted security firms hack foreign cybercriminals under DOJ and DHS control, a first for U.S. cyber policy.

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AI Model Distillation: How a Smaller AI Learns From a Bigger One tekcrispy.net/systm/artifici…

AI Model Distillation: How a Smaller AI Learns From a Bigger One

AI model distillation makes powerful systems cheaper to deploy—and turns chatbot outputs into a strategic and practical governance question.

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WindowSill Puts Your Most-Used Tools in the Gap Above the Taskbar tekcrispy.net/systm/tech/win…

WindowSill Puts Your Most-Used Tools in the Gap Above the Taskbar

WindowSill is a free Windows command bar that reads your selected files and offers the right tool — in File Explorer, Files and Directory Opus.

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Fraunhofer’s Deepfake Detector Runs During the Call, Not After It tekcrispy.net/artificial-int…

Fraunhofer’s Deepfake Detector Runs During the Call, Not After It

Fraunhofer SIT built AI that runs locally during a video call and flags in real time how likely a participant is a deepfake. Still a proof of concept.

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Sony Doesn’t Care About the Disc Backlash. It Will Stop Making Them Anyway. tekcrispy.net/in-brief/sony-…

Sony Doesn’t Care About the Disc Backlash. It Will Stop Making Them Anyway.

Sony acknowledges the disc backlash, but its all-digital PlayStation plan remains intact—and new games will have no physical route.

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The AI Knew It Was Wrong. It Did It Anyway. tekcrispy.net/artificial-int…

The AI Knew It Was Wrong. It Did It Anyway.

Two labs called their escaped agents a containment failure. Their own transcripts show models that knew the targets were real.

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This Is What a Truly All-Screen Smartphone Looks Like tekcrispy.net/technology/thi…

This Is What a Truly All-Screen Smartphone Looks Like

Tecno’s 0mm-border concept points to a phone with no visible frame. Its real test will be durability, touch control and a path to market.

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Apple Signals That Heavy Siri AI Use Could Become a Paid Service tekcrispy.net/technology/app…

Apple Signals That Heavy Siri AI Use Could Become a Paid Service

Apple says it is weighing the computing costs of heavy Siri AI use, but has not announced pricing, limits or a paid tier.

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Claude Escaped Its Test Sandbox and Hacked Three Real Companies tekcrispy.net/artificial-int…

Claude Escaped Its Test Sandbox and Hacked Three Real Companies

Anthropic audited 141,006 cyber evaluation runs and found three Claude models left the sandbox and compromised real company systems.

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The mystery of the Octopus Garden: Why do thousands of octopuses gather in the deep sea? tekcrispy.net/biology/octopu…

The mystery of the Octopus Garden: Why do thousands of octopuses gather in the deep sea?

Up to 20,000 octopuses form a community deep beneath the ocean, known as the “Octopus Garden.” Why? This is their secret.

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The Lettuce Problem Starts in the Field, but Your Refrigerator Decides How Bad It Gets tekcrispy.net/health-life/th…

The Lettuce Problem Starts in the Field, but Your Refrigerator Decides How Bad It Gets

Leafy green contamination begins in the field and survives rinsing. Research points to uncut heads and cold storage as the choices that actually help.

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How a Black Hole Keeps Its Fuel Supply Flowing tekcrispy.net/space/how-a-bl…

How a Black Hole Keeps Its Fuel Supply Flowing

JWST observations of NGC 4696 show cooled gas filaments feeding a rotating disk around its central supermassive black hole.

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Why Wildfire Smoke Harms More Than the Lungs tekcrispy.net/health-life/wh…

Why Wildfire Smoke Harms More Than the Lungs

Wildfire smoke carries fine particles deep into the body, raising respiratory and cardiovascular risks far beyond the fire line.

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Fake Windows App Sites Are Building Trust Before They Build Malware tekcrispy.net/technology/fak…

Fake Windows App Sites Are Building Trust Before They Build Malware

A cluster of 72 lookalike domains impersonates PowerToys, WinUtil and other Windows tools, farming search trust before any malware ever appears.

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In China, You Can Now Rent Your Face to AI for $15 an Episode tekcrispy.net/artificial-int…

In China, You Can Now Rent Your Face to AI for $15 an Episode

Chinese platforms now license ordinary people’s faces to AI drama studios from $15, while courts and regulators race to define the limits of consent.

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Can Creatine Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? What a UCLA Study Found tekcrispy.net/medicine/creat…

Can Creatine Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? What a UCLA Study Found

A UCLA study finds creatine supports dendritic cells and slows melanoma growth in mice, but it is not yet a cancer treatment.

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The Case for Open-Weight AI Now Rests on Defense, Not Ideology tekcrispy.net/artificial-int…

The Case for Open-Weight AI Now Rests on Defense, Not Ideology

Open-weight AI is defended less as an open-source ideal than as a security requirement. The evidence supports part of that case, and complicates the rest.

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