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A coordinated spam operation has infiltrated abandoned subdomains belonging to major institutions including Nvidia, Stanford University, NPR, and the U.S. government's vaccines.gov site, flooding them with AI-generated content that subsequently appears in search results and Google's AI Overview feature. The scheme, reports 404 Media, posted over 62,000 articles on Nvidia's events.nsv.nvidia.com subdomain before the company took it offline within two hours of being contacted by reporters. The spam articles, which included explicit gaming content and local business recommendations, used identical layouts and a fake byline called "Ashley" across all compromised sites. Each targeted domain operates under different names -- "AceNet Hub" on Stanford's site, "Form Generation Hub" on NPR, and "Seymore Insights" on vaccines.gov -- but all redirect traffic to a marketing spam page. The operation exploits search engines' trust in institutional domains, with Google's AI Overview already serving the fabricated content as factual information to users searching for local businesses.

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The brand has expanded their bra sizing to fit more people

Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, one of the most acclaimed and influential songwriters of the 20th century, has died aged 82.

The newest of the exascale-class supercomputer to be profiled in the Top500 rankings in the June list is the long-awaited “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany. …

Peeling The Covers Off Germany’s Exascale “Jupiter” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

David Ejimofor, 15, died after getting into trouble during a 'coming of age ceremony' in the water off Aberavon Beach, Port Talbot.

Emergency services were first called to reports of a possible gas explosion at a terraced property in Eden Street, Derby, at around 7.24pm on Tuesday, June 10.

The abstract of a study featured on NBER: We examine the labor market effects of AI chatbots using two large-scale adoption surveys (late 2023 and 2024) covering 11 exposed occupations (25,000 workers, 7,000 workplaces), linked to matched employer-employee data in Denmark. AI chatbots are now widespread -- most employers encourage their use, many deploy in-house models, and training initiatives are common. These firm-led investments boost adoption, narrow demographic gaps in take-up, enhance workplace utility, and create new job tasks. Yet, despite substantial investments, economic impacts remain minimal. Using difference-in-differences and employer policies as quasi-experimental variation, we estimate precise zeros: AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation, with confidence intervals ruling out effects larger than 1%. Modest productivity gains (average time savings of 3%), combined with weak wage pass-through, help explain these limited labor market effects. Our findings challenge narratives of imminent labor market transformation due to Generative AI.

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Satellite images show that the pair of supersonic Tu-160 strategic bombers - each carrying a $500m price tag - have been relocated more than 4,000 miles from the warfront to Anadyr.

We are becoming a People's Republic by stealth. The warnings are increasingly urgent, but is anyone listening?

From his brutal childhood - beaten so badly by his monstrous father that he was deaf in one ear - to his decades of paranoid, drug-addled seclusion, he fought a constant battle against the world.

'It was hard to feel happy and light when there were sad things in my head,' Wilson wrote in his 2016 autobiography I Am Brian Wilson. 'It was hard to feel free when I was tied down.

'So comfortable, flattering style and superb quality'

On your marks, get set... bork!

updated  Microsoft set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage.…

'Our first job was to stabilise the economy and public finances,' Keir Starmer tweeted yesterday morning, a few hours before Rachel Reeves delivered Labour's spending plans.

From jelly shoes to Bermuda shorts, you may remember wearing many of this summer's trends the first time they were cool.

Next to the Reinland Mennonite Church on the outskirts of Seminole in Texas is a plain grass field surrounded by a chain-link fence that serves as the devout congregation's graveyard.

Five months ago, I had sex for the last time. And when I say last, I mean final - I am never, ever having sex again. And happily so.

A dating site launched last week by Belgian artist Dries Depoorter matches potential partners based on their internet browsing histories rather than curated profiles or photos. Browser Dating requires users to download a Chrome or Firefox extension that exports and uploads their recent search data, creating matches based on shared online behaviors and interests rather than traditional dating app metrics. Less than 1,000 users have signed up since the platform's launch, paying a one-time fee of $10.3 for unlimited matches or using a free tier limited to five connections. Depoorter, known for digital art projects exploring surveillance and technology, says the concept emerged from a 2016 workshop where participants shared a year of search history data. The platform processes browsing data locally using Google's Firebase tools.

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Warner Bros. released a new trailer for Superman on Wednesday, as fans flocked to pick up their tickets just as they went on sale, seemingly at a record pace.

The home in Birmingham had been swallowed up by nature after trees, weeds, and ivy had grown out of control for the last four decades