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• Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by a Senate committee Wednesday over child safety on his platforms.
• In a striking moment, GOP Sen. Josh Hawley pushed Zuckerberg to face families whose kids were harmed.
• Zuckerberg was among the Big Tech CEOs at the

• A federal judge threw out a lawsuit brought by Disney against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
• Disney alleged that Florida retaliated against free speech by taking over the parks' local district.
• The federal suit was denied for lack of standing, but a separate case continues in the state courts.

A federal judge on Wednesday

During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER) can make large language models more accurate.

With LASER, researchers can “intervene” and replace one weight matrix with an approximate smaller one. Weights are the

Starlab Space’s forthcoming space station is so big and heavy that only the formidable SpaceX Starship megarocket can launch it into orbit, but the one-time delivery option comes with distinct benefits.

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• The US military destroyed a Houthi missile that posed a threat to a US aircraft on Wednesday.
• The surface-to-air missile was ready to launch from a position in Yemen, US Central Command said.
• It's the latest preemptive action taken by the US, which

It’s official: There will be no further attempts to salvage FTX. The once popular but now defunct crypto exchange that “misplaced” billions of dollars in user assets before collapsing in a heap of scandal is officially headed to the corporate graveyard.

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Rocket Lab kicked off the year with the launch and recovery of its Electron rocket as part of the company’s continued efforts to reuse its small launch vehicle’s first stage.

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• Majors was found guilty last month of a reckless, misdemeanor assault on his ex-girlfriend.
• Now, he wants a judge to permanently seal secret pre-trial proceedings concerning his private life.
• These records contain unauthenticated accusations the DA was

• I left the US to start over and I've spent the past few months falling love with Istanbul. 
• I've found that the city is affordable for me. It's also beautiful and very social. 
• I love taking a ferry, not a subway, to get around and eating so much delicious food.

I left the United States a couple of years ago to start over.

After spending time

Palworld, the viral “Pokémon with guns” game that launched in Early Access to mixed reviews, has already sold 19 million copies. Developer Pocketpair says it’s sold 12 million copies on Steam and seven million on Xbox since its January 19 launch (after selling over a million in its first eight hours). Microsoft says the tongue-in-cheek Pokémon satire is the biggest third-party launch on Game Pass

• Neuralink exec Shivon Zilis is coming to Elon Musk's defense after he was dealt a blow in court.
• A Delaware judge on Tuesday voided Musk's $55 billion pay package at Tesla.
• Zilis, who shares twins with Musk, says the ruling "pours water on creating incentives for true exceptionalism."

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The granddaddy of the modern zombie genre is now officially back, and it seems its biggest star may also be along for the ride. Weeks after news broke that director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland were bringing back the world of their 2002 hit 28 Days Later with 28 Years Later, the sequel has now found a home at…

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