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Andy "Rebirth" Pellerano is a former soldier for the Almighty Latin King Nation, or Latin Kings, one of the largest and most dangerous prison and street gangs in the United States.

Business Insider talks to Pellerano about how members are initiated, what the gang's codes are, and how he got the green light to leave the organization. He covers the rivalry with the Crips and the Folk Nation and the



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Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade testifies during a hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade testifies during a hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Special prosecutor Nathan Wade testified he's no longer dating Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
  • Willis appointed Wade to lead the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump in 2021. 
  • A judge will determine whether



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Slack.
  • Anyone who's used Slack knows it can be a real pain to try to search for something in the app.
  • Slack announced a new generative AI feature Wednesday to help with that.
  • Other features can help summarize long conversations or give you a quick rundown on what you missed.

Finding an old message or document on Slack can be tough. Now, the messaging app is hoping its new generative AI fea



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Xbox Series S console

Well, that was weird.

Xbox's big, much-awaited "business update" came to pass on Thursday afternoon in podcast form. After a couple weeks of rumor-mongering alleging that certain Xbox-exclusive titles would start appearing on consoles like PS5 and Switch, Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed as much in the podcast. However, he didn't confirm exactly what we expected him to confirm.

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A video generated by Sora shows a woman strutting the streets of Tokyo.
  • OpenAI has launched a new tool, Sora, that generates AI videos based on user text.
  • It's currently in beta with safety experts and a limited group of creators.
  • But the first — admittedly hand-picked — results look eerily realistic.

AI-created images are about to get a lot more real-looking.

On Thursday, OpenAI showed off a new



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First text, then images, now OpenAI has a model for generating videos.

On Thursday, the makers of ChatGPT and DALL-E announced Sora, a text-to-video diffusion model. As of today, Sora is available to red teamers, or experts who adversarially test the model for harms and risks. Per the announcement, it is also available to a select group or visual artists, designers, and filmmakers "to gain



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OpenAI introduced Sora, its premier text-to-video generator, on Thursday with beautiful, shockingly realistic videos showcasing the AI model’s capabilities. Sora is now available to a small number of researchers and creatives who will test the model before a broader public release, which could spell disaster for the…

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Taken on their own, today’s gaming announcements from Microsoft might not seem all that earth-shattering. A handful of unspecified Xbox games are coming to rival platforms, the subscriber numbers for Game Pass have grown, Diablo IV will lead the rush of Activision Blizzard titles on Game Pass, and more hardware is on the way, including a powerful next-gen console



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The struggle is real. Computer buying is a hassle for the uninitiated, and even those who can count off the names of the different Intel chip generations on their fingers and toes might still fall for a lousy deal now and then. I’m here to tell you not to beat yourself up and do the best research possible. We should…

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