College students who have reportedly grown too dependent on ChatGPT are starting to face consequences after graduating and joining the workforce for placing too much trust in chatbots.

Last month, a recent law school graduate lost his job after using ChatGPT to help draft a court filing that ended up being riddled with errors.

The consequences arrived after a court in Utah ordered sanctions after the filing included the first fake citation ever discovered in the state hallucinated by artificial intelligence.

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This is a clip edited together by the Bell Brothers (previously) featuring Mrs. Doubtfire dancing with her vacuum and broom in a variety of other movies. Now this — this is the exactly the internet I was hoping to see when I logged onto AOL this morning. Everything else I’ve seen and read? Makes me wish the internet was never invented in the first place. “You should go off the grid.” You think I haven’t though about it? Those online pharmacies though. If it weren’t for them I’d be in a camper van on a beach somewhere right now with zero internet or boner pills.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Internet service provider Frontier Communications agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by major record labels that demanded mass disconnections of broadband users accused of piracy. Universal, Sony, and Warner sued Frontier in 2021. In a notice of settlement filed last week in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the parties agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, with each side to pay its own fees and costs.

The record labels and Frontier simultaneously announced a settlement of similar claims in a Bankruptcy Court case in the same district. Frontier also settled with movie companies in April of this year, just before a trial was scheduled to begin. (Frontier exited bankruptcy in 2021.) […] Regardless of what is in the agreement, the question of whether ISPs should have to crack down more harshly on users accused of piracy could be decided by the US Supreme Court.

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In keeping with its image as a family friendly gaming company, Nintendo has updated its Parental Controls app for the Switch 2, which is scheduled to launch on June 5. This will allow parents to restrict their kids’ usage of the Nintendo Switch 2, so long as their kids are under 16 years old. The Parental Controls app is available on iPhone and Android.

The big new addition is that GameChat, which is a new Switch 2 app for voice and video chat, can now be restricted using the Parental Controls app. Nintendo says that for kids under 16, GameChat can only be used if their account is managed by a parent using the Parental Controls app. Note that GameChat is free until March 31, 2026, and after that, you’ll need to pay for a Nintendo Switch Online membership to use the service.

Every time your child tries to initiate a video call with GameChat, you’ll receive a request for approval on your smartphone. Nintendo says the video call will only begin once you’ve approved the request. Additionally, you’ll need to pre-approve who they can chat with, as Nintendo says “It’s only possible for players under 16 to use GameChat with friends who have been approved by their parent or guardian.”

The company also encourages parents to regularly check their kid’s GameChat history, and add notes next to the people their kid plays with to indicate who they are. This is to help parents know who’s in touch with their kids while the children are gaming on the Nintendo Switch 2. Parents will be able to see who their children are chatting with, how long they’ve played with different people, and the field of view settings for the connected camera in video chats.

As with the Switch 1, you can also use the Parental Controls app to restrict play time for your kids. The app will let you set different play time limits for different days, which means that you could allow them to play for longer over the weekend, as an example. There are preset age restrictions built in to the app, which will automatically restrict certain types of content for your kids, but you can also use custom settings. This will let you choose an age rating for the games your kids are downloading, decide if they should be allowed to post game content on social media, or if they’re allowed to use GameChat at all.

Parents can also whitelist certain games and the console will ignore the age rating for these. Additionally, the Parental Controls app will also let you view Switch 2 play time for various members of your family, generate a monthly play time report, and even send you alerts whenever a game is downloaded. Don’t forget that you can also set a screen lock PIN on the Switch 2, which is also a fairly effective way to restrict usage of the console.

I’m always working on a side quest, from getting certified in an obscure professional trade (airbrush tanning) or developing a new skill (just because I live in Manhattan doesn’t mean I can’t learn to golf or fish). Since March, I’ve been hellbent on learning to do the splits, and I’ve given myself until August to get it done. I have I never been what anyone would consider a flexible person (physically, anyway), so at the start, this mission seemed ill-advised and even far-fetched. But then I discovered that my beloved Peloton app offers stretching classes.

It’s now June, and I’m nowhere near my goal, but practicing my stretches with guidance from the pros has absolutely helped me make significant progress. Even if I weren’t randomly endeavoring to contort my body in a strange new way just for the thrill of accomplishing a goal, I know stretching is important; I start and end every spin class I teach with a stretching routine, because warmups and cooldowns contribute any workout. Whether you’re trying to become significantly more flexible or just want to enhance your own fitness, Peloton’s guided stretching classes are a good option.

Why you should follow a guided stretching routine

The Peloton app offers all kinds of classes on it, some of which I’ve highlighted before. With an All-Access membership ($44 per month),y ou can access the at-home fitness company’s famous cycling classes, go on guided walks, and even meditate. Peloton also offers multiple options for strength training.

Some of these activities—like cycling and lifting—more obviously lend themselves to guided classes, especially for newcomers, but you might think stretching is too straightforward to bother using a guided class. After all, it’s simple enough to just reach down and assess whether or not you can comfortably touch your toes. But this thinking is wrong.

As Peloton points out in its own blog on the topic, stretching can not only help you prepare for or recover from a workout, but can enhance your overall fitness, blood flow, and even your posture. But just as it can be beneficial, stretching can also injure you if you use the wrong form or overextend yourself. Listening to a certified coach walk you through not only the exact stretches you should be doing, but how they should feel, what tools you can use to help yourself ease into them (like yoga blocks), how long you should hold them, and the kinds of modifications you can make if something doesn’t feel right, can help you stay safe and get more out of the effort you’re putting in.

Peloton offers targeted stretching classes for specific goals

You can find the stretching classes in the Peloton app by searching for “stretching” on the home screen. (“Stretching” may also appear as a standalone button on the home screen, depending on what the algorithm is serving you when you open up the app.)

Like all of its offerings, from running to yoga, Peloton’s roster of stretching classes is diverse. You can filter your results by length (from five minutes to 30) and by class type. Here are the types of stretching you can filter for:

• Full body stretches

• Upper body stretches

• Lower body stretches

• Core stretches

• Mobility stretches

• Foam rolling

• Boxing stretches

• Dance cardio stretches

• Pre- and post-cycling ride stretches

• Pre-running stretches

• Post-running stretches

• Pro- and post-rowing stretches

You can also filter by music genre and instructor and add stretching classes to your Peloton Stack.the app’s version of a playlist (your Stack will play your pre-selected workouts in order). Add a stretching class to the beginning and end of your workout to makes the entire thing more well-rounded, safe, and beneficial.

How Peloton’s stretching classes have helped me

As noted, and I am not flexible. I have never been flexible. I remember dreading those days in elementary school gym class when the teacher would measure how far everyone could stretch, and I struggled to extend past my knees. At the start of my mission to do a split, I began doing a vague stretching routine on my own every night, maybe occasionally googling for some new ideas but not really feeling much of a benefit or seeing much progressive improvement. The more structured Peloton classes changed that—I can look at my phone screen and see exactly what I’m supposed to be doing, and hear succinct verbal cues that tell me how I should be feeling during a stretch.

I have absolutely noticed that since I started following along with the app’s classes on lower body stretching, I can sink lower into a stretch while experiencing less pain and friction. Physically, that’s a benefit in and of itself, but mentally, it’s both comforting and motivating—comforting because I am less terrified I will accidentally hurt myself by stretching incorrectly, and motivating because I can actually feel myself progressing toward my goal.

The instructors are encouraging and well informed, which is typical of all Peloton classes. They explain what is coming up, tell you when you should rock back and forth or stay static, and detail the function of each stretch, whether it’s intended to help you with your posture, make your daily activities easier, or help you reach a workout-specific goal. I’ve even stolen a few of the stretches I’ve learned to incorporate into the ones I lead my spin classes through.

While it’s easy enough to do a few improvised stretches before you lift, after you do cardio, or when you’re just feeling tight, it’s beneficial to open up the Peloton app and run through a more intentionally planned routine with help from an expert, and yet another way this app has become totally indispensable for me on my broader quest to improve my fitness.

Stig Asmussen, the game industry veteran who directed God of War III and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Fallen Order, is developing a single-player action-adventure game set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons in partnership with publisher Wizards of the Coast.

This will be the first project for Asmussen’s studio Giant Skull since its founding in late 2023. In a press release sent to Engadget, the studio shared it is “dedicated to building gameplay-driven, story-immersed action-adventure games.” The new project will be built on the Unreal 5 engine and is currently in development for PC, with console details coming at a later date. No specific release dates, renderings or game content has been shared as of yet, making it unlikely this game will be out before 2026.

John Hight, president of Wizards of the Coast (the owners of the iconic tabletop RPG), said “Stig and the team at Giant Skull are exactly the type of exceptionally talented creators we want to work with and I’m so happy to be reuniting with him on this new project.” Stig Asmussen shared that the studio’s goal is to “craft a rich new Dungeons & Dragons universe filled with immersive storytelling, heroic combat and exhilarating traversal that players will fully embrace.”

This new project comes as Wizards of the Coast moves on from its deal with developer Larian Studios, the team behind the widely-acclaimed Baldur’s Gate 3. The Hasbro-owned publisher has a slew of games in the pipeline in partnership with various game studios in the United States and Canada. These include the sci-fi RPG Exodus, which is being developed by Archetype Entertainment, and Atomic Arcade’s Snake Eyes, which is based on the G.I. Joe.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/a-single-player-dungeons-dragons-game-is-in-development-172635380.html?src=rss

Automated web-scraping bots seeking training data for AI models are flooding scientific databases and academic journals with traffic volumes that render many sites unusable. The online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly 3 million species photographs, started receiving millions of daily hits in February this year that slowed the site to the point that it no longer loaded, Nature reported Monday.

The surge has intensified since the release of DeepSeek, a Chinese large language model that demonstrated effective AI could be built with fewer computational resources than previously thought. This revelation triggered what industry observers describe as an “explosion of bots seeking to scrape the data needed to train this type of model.” The Confederation of Open Access Repositories reported that more than 90% of 66 surveyed members experienced AI bot scraping, with roughly two-thirds suffering service disruptions. Medical journal publisher BMJ has seen bot traffic surpass legitimate user activity, overloading servers and interrupting customer services.

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A lot of Americans are enduring a crash course in an economic term that was, until very recently, pretty obscure: tariffs. Economics can get pretty complicated, and knowing the ins and outs of tariff policies and how they might—or might not!—impact consumer prices is challenging, but there’s one thing that’s clear about tariffs: They mainly impact imported goods. Products that are made domestically won’t be affected, especially if the components and ingredients used are also sourced domestically.

That should make evading tariff price hikes pretty straightforward: Just look for stuff that was made in America, right? This isn’t foolproof, but it’s a reasonable strategy. The problem with this seemingly simple strategy, though, is that it’s actually very easy for companies to be deceptive about where their products are actually made. If you’re trying to support American manufacturing and evade the economic impact of tariffs, you need to know these tricks that companies play to make you think their product was made in the USA.

Wording

The first thing to look at is the words used to describe the product. The precise phrase “made in USA” is a standard defined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as a product that is made “all or virtually all” in the United States, including Washington D.C. and territories. It’s a pretty stringent standard, so products that use imported materials or that are manufactured globally can’t use the “made in USA” label.

They can, however, use similar language, like:

• Assembled in America

• Manufactured in the USA

• Designed in the USA

• Inspired by American Craftsmanship

None of those phrases mean anything, legally, but if you’re not researching every product you encounter, you might reasonably assume they mean the product is made here.

Another way companies can trick you with “made in USA” is to include the phrase in its product description or marketing in a different context. For example, there might be a sentence stating that the product performs better than other products made in USA. They’re not actually stating that their product is made in America, but the inclusion of the phrase gives the impression that it is.

Imagery

A subtle way companies try to imply products are made in the USA when they really aren’t is through simple imagery: American flags, bald eagles, and red-white-and-blue color schemes all look patriotic and domestic without actually meaning anything. Similarly, maps of the continental United States are iconic and instantly recognizable and imply that the product is made right here in America, but don’t actually say anything at all.

Sometimes flags and other American iconography are used in conjunction with a specific landmark that’s instantly recognizable as American, like the Statue of Liberty or the Washington Monument. This emphasizes the “American-ness” of the product without making any specific (or actionable) claims about its origins or place of manufacture.

Disclaimers

The legal disclaimer is an old-school tactic to evade responsibility for deceptive practices, and it’s alive and well. Companies sometimes sell items that heavily imply they’re made in the USA, but include a disclaimer somewhere advising consumers otherwise.

A prime example of this is on Walmart’s website, where a disclaimer reading, in part, “For certain items sold by Walmart on Walmart.com, the displayed country of origin information may not be accurate or consistent with manufacturer information” appears on dozens of items sold through the website. Essentially, the disclaimer admits that some of the products are deceptive about their origins, and it’s up to you to deep dive into the product info to find out the truth.

Headquarter focus

One easy trick a company can use to fool you into thinking their products are made right here in the U.S. is to over-emphasize their corporate headquarters. By repeatedly stating that the company is “based in” an American city or state, they forge a psychological connection between their products and the U.S. But just because a company’s corporate presence is in the U.S. doesn’t mean its manufacturing is, too. If you make the assumption that this means the product is made here, well, that’s on you.

Broad definition

Another tricky way companies pretend their stuff is made right here in the U.S. is to use a broad definition of “America”—in the sense of “the Americas,” including North, South, and Central America. Semantically accurate, this phrase allows you to assume “America” means the USA while the items are actually made in Mexico or Canada. For example, boot company Lucchese uses the phrase a lot in their marketing, but many of their boots are made in Mexico, China, and Brazil.

Microsoft will require all USB-C ports on Windows 11 certified laptops and tablets to support data transfer, charging, and display functionality under updated hardware compatibility program rules. The mandate targets devices shipping with Windows 11 24H2 and aims to eliminate what Microsoft — and the industry — calls “USB-C port confusion,” where identical-looking ports offer different capabilities across PC manufacturers.

The Windows Hardware Compatibility Program updates also require USB 40Gbps ports to maintain full compatibility with both USB4 and Thunderbolt 3 peripherals.

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