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Single CRISPR shot safely lowers cholesterol and triglycerides
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Single CRISPR shot safely lowers cholesterol and triglycerides - theFreesheet
Researchers have hailed a "one-and-done" gene-editing therapy as "unprecedented" after it safely lowered both "bad" cholesterol and triglycerides in a
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November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Battery-free, sweat-powered sticker turns any cup into a health check sensor
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Battery-free, sweat-powered sticker turns any cup into a health check sensor - theFreesheet
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a battery-free electronic sticker that monitors a person’s vitamin C levels using sweat
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November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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AI’s ‘black box’ opened as XAI reveals how electronic noses identify smells
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AI's 'black box' opened as XAI reveals how electronic noses identify smells - theFreesheet
Researchers have opened the "black box" of artificial olfaction, using explainable AI (XAI) to visualise for the first time how an electronic nose actually
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November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Meta pledges $600 billion for US data centres as debt financing raises risks
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Meta pledges $600 billion for US data centres as debt financing raises risks - theFreesheet
Meta has announced it will invest over $600 billion in the US by 2028 to support artificial intelligence technology, infrastructure and workforce expansion,
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November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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UK hiring confidence at record low as 17% of firms plan AI job cuts
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UK hiring confidence at record low as 17% of firms plan AI job cuts - theFreesheet
One in six (17 per cent) of UK employers expect artificial intelligence to reduce their headcount over the next 12 months, with junior and administrative
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November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Microsoft finds ‘Whisper Leak’ attack can unmask encrypted AI chat topics
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Microsoft finds 'Whisper Leak' attack can unmask encrypted AI chat topics - theFreesheet
Microsoft researchers have discovered a new side-channel attack, known as "Whisper Leak," that can infer the topic of encrypted conversations with AI
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November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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AI’s ‘hidden bias’ revealed as LLMs judge texts based on author nationality
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AI's 'hidden bias' revealed as LLMs judge texts based on author nationality - theFreesheet
AI systems used to evaluate content are judging the author, not the text, according to a new study from the University of Zurich. Researchers found that Large
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November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Biased MLM research funded by industry echoes big tobacco tactics
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Biased MLM research funded by industry echoes big tobacco tactics - theFreesheet
Scientific research into multi-level marketing (MLMs) is "remarkably lenient" and shows signs of industry influence similar to tactics used by the cigarette
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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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AFP and Monash develop ‘data poison’ to stop AI-generated child abuse
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AFP and Monash develop 'data poison' to stop AI-generated child abuse - theFreesheet
Monash University and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are developing a new "data poisoning" tool designed to stop criminals from creating malicious
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November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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AI model tackles skin cancer detection bias with 89% accuracy
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AI model tackles skin cancer detection bias with 89% accuracy - theFreesheet
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a machine learning model that identifies individuals with skin cancer with 89 per cent
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November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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AI chatbots to be used in HMP Wandsworth to stop mistaken releases
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AI chatbots to be used in HMP Wandsworth to stop mistaken releases - theFreesheet
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Web inventor warns AI companies are killing platform through data scraping
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Web inventor warns AI companies are killing platform through data scraping - theFreesheet
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that artificial intelligence companies are extracting data from the web in ways that threaten to collapse the advertising model
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November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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IT and HR teams partner to manage AI workforce disruption
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IT and HR teams partner to manage AI workforce disruption - theFreesheet
Corporate technology and human resources departments are increasingly collaborating to manage the cultural and technological disruption caused by artificial
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November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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AI data centre boom could add 10 million cars worth of CO2 by 2030
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AI data centre boom could add 10 million cars worth of CO2 by 2030 - theFreesheet
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure could annually add 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2030,
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November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Uncanny AI ‘deathbots’ summon ghosts and commodify grief thefreesheet.com/2025/11/10/u...
Uncanny AI 'deathbots' summon ghosts and commodify grief - theFreesheet
AI-powered "deathbots" that simulate deceased individuals are turning remembrance into a commercial product, according to new research. The study found these
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November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Tech giants turn to complex debt instruments as AI spending continues
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Tech giants turn to complex debt instruments as AI spending continues - theFreesheet
Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon have collectively spent $112 billion on capital expenditures in the past three months alone to fund artificial
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November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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AI will become conscious as a result of evolving human concepts, not fresh tech
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AI will become conscious as a result of evolving human concepts, not fresh tech - theFreesheet
Artificial intelligence is on its way to becoming conscious in the same way it became intelligent, with increasingly sophisticated AI interactions prompting
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November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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AI breakthrough compresses chatbot memory without losing accuracy
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AI breakthrough compresses chatbot memory without losing accuracy - theFreesheet
Researchers at Seoul National University have developed AI technology that compresses the "conversation memory" of large language model-based chatbots by
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November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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AI adoption becomes job requirement as companies fire resistant employees
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AI adoption becomes job requirement as companies fire resistant employees - theFreesheet
Corporate giants, including Accenture, are cutting staff who aren't embracing artificial intelligence fast enough, with the consulting firm's chief executive
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November 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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AI-generated social media posts remain 70-80% detectable despite optimisation
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AI-generated social media posts remain 70-80% detectable despite optimisation - theFreesheet
Large language models remain readily distinguishable from human text even after extensive calibration, with automated classifiers detecting AI-generated
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November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Humans possess a “Seventh Sense” remote touch like sandpipers
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Humans possess a "Seventh Sense" remote touch like sandpipers - theFreesheet
Research has revealed that humans possess a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a capability previously documented
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November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus shows heat balance needed to support life
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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus shows heat balance needed to support life - theFreesheet
New findings from NASA's Cassini mission show that Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons and a top contender for extra-terrestrial life, is losing heat from both
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November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Aaron Paul ditches smartphone, warns AI will “completely take over most jobs”
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Aaron Paul ditches smartphone, warns AI will "completely take over most jobs" - theFreesheet
Actor Aaron Paul has given up his smartphone for most daily use, saying the obsession with phones is causing mental health damage, whilst warning that
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November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Universe’s expansion reportedly slowing, putting Nobel Prize in awkward spot
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Universe's expansion reportedly slowing, putting Nobel Prize in awkward spot - theFreesheet
It appears the universe's three-decade-long acceleration party might be over. A new study suggests that, contrary to a Nobel Prize-winning theory, the
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November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Alex Winter criticises anti-AI activists as “really fucking dumb” amid AI doc plan
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Alex Winter criticises anti-AI activists as "really fucking dumb" amid AI doc plan - theFreesheet
Actor and documentarian Alex Winter has criticised much of the anti-AI movement as uninformed, saying most criticism is "really fucking dumb" from people who
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November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM