Nintendo Switch 2 Has Sold 5 Million Units In Its First Month Overtaking The PS4 As The Fastest Selling Console Ever

Nintendo Switch 2 achieves 5 million units sold in June 2025, breaking sales records and surpassing its predecessor’s launch by a wide margin. twistedvoxel.com TL;DR: Nintendo’s Switch 2 absolutely crushed its launch, moving over 5 million units worldwide in June 2025—easily outpacing the original Switch’s 2.74 million debut. The Americas led the charge with ~1.8 […]

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Learning from Incorrectly Labeled Data

Section 3.2 of Ilyas et al. (2019) shows that training a model on only adversarial errors leads to non-trivial generalization on the original test set. We show that these experiments are a specific case of learning from errors. We start with a counterintuitive result — we take a completely mislabeled training set (without modifying the inputs) and […]

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Apple considers external AI partners to boost Siri smarts — Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly in early talks to replace in-house models

Apple may be willing to look outside its walls to get Siri up to snuff with artificial intelligence features. According to a report from Bloomberg, the company is considering using tech from Anthropic or OpenAI to right its struggles in AI. This would be a massive change for Apple, which is currently using its in-house […]

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Musk’s ‘Priority #1’ Disaster: CSAM Problem Worsens While ExTwitter Stiffs Detection Provider

from the not-such-a-priority-apparently dept One of Elon Musk’s first “promises” upon taking over Twitter was that fighting child exploitation was “priority #1.” He falsely implied that the former management didn’t take the issue seriously (they did) and insisted that he would make sure it was a solved problem on the platform he now owned. Of […]

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The Download: how to clean up AI data centers, and weight-loss drugs’ side effects

In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering a small AI data center. Redwood Materials, one of the US’s largest battery recycling companies, showed off this array of energy storage modules, sitting on cinder blocks and wrapped in waterproof plastic, during a press […]

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FBI Warns of Scattered Spider’s Expanding Attacks on Airlines Using Social Engineering

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that it has observed the notorious cybercrime group Scattered Spider broadening its targeting footprint to strike the airline sector. To that end, the agency said it’s actively working with aviation and industry partners to combat the activity and help victims. “These actors rely on social engineering […]

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