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Apple’s brand new AirPods and AirPods Pro are chilling at record-low prices ahead of Cyber Monday 2022

In a sea of brands that were willing to unleash Black Friday discounts in early October, Apple is a stickler. If the tech giant offers any holiday deals, they usually happen on actual Black Friday — and they’re almost always gift card promos instead of straight-up discounts. This is all to say that if you’re…

The best Cyber Monday 2022 TV deals at Walmart, including a 65-inch QLED display for under $400

UPDATE: Nov. 11, 2022, 11:10 a.m. EST This story has been updated with the latest and greatest TV deals from Walmart’s ongoing Black Friday sale. Here’s a brief overview: BEST BUDGET PICK: The well-reviewed 50-inch Vizio V-Series TV gets you a crystal-clear picture with full-array backlighting — $298 $358 (save $60) BEST QLED TV DEAL:…

ID.me lied to IRS about unemployment fraud, average wait times, House Dems say

Enlarge / House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) is seen during a hearing in March 2022 in Washington, DC. (credit: Alex Wong / Staff | Getty Images News) Online verification through ID.me was supposed to help the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) prevent widespread fraud while rushing unemployment benefits to those who needed it…

Elon Musk talked about laying off 75% of employees; he may have just gotten his wish

When Peter Clowes last updated his LinkedIn profile, he listed his role as “Layoff Survivor” at Twitter. Yet Clowes, a senior software engineer who joined the company in the spring of 2020, is now gone, too. He quit yesterday, dispassionately explaining last night on Twitter that he decided to leave not because to hobble Twitter…

New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled

Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of robots making science. (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, Meta AI unveiled a demo of Galactica, a large language model designed to “store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge.” While intended to accelerate writing scientific literature, adversarial users running tests found it could also generate realistic nonsense. After several days…