Ex-college football star, son of Texas A&M associate head coach, arrested in poisoning deaths of girlfriend and unborn baby

Blaise Taylor, an analyst at Texas A&M and son of the school’s associate head coach, was arrested in Utah on Thursday after being indicted in the 2023 deaths of his girlfriend and her unborn child, according to Nashville police. Taylor, a former college football star at Arkansas State, was indicted Wednesday by a Nashville grand … Read more

9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar’s Pemba Island

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania — Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago and 78 other people were hospitalized, authorities said Saturday. Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar’s people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning. The … Read more

Bill Maher Says Music’s Obsession With Money Is Poisoning Young People

Play video content Bill Maher has not changed his tune about the problems with young people … he says one of the root problems is the musical messages pumped into their brains. The ‘Real Time’ host made his case that the music industry has been singularly obsessed with the almighty dollar and the things it … Read more

Fox News Anchors Worry Trump’s ‘Poisoning the Blood’ Anti-Immigrant Comments Will Overshadow Gay Senate Sex Tape Scandal

“Fox and Friends Weekend” coanchor Will Cain expressed concern Sunday morning that the “big story” of a Democratic aide allegedly filming himself having sex in a Senate hearing room would be buried by former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant comments made Saturday proclaiming that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the nation. Cain added that he … Read more

Trump repeats ‘poisoning the blood’ anti-immigrant remark

By Nathan Layne DURHAM, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said on Saturday that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric. Trump made the comments during a campaign event in New Hampshire where he railed against … Read more

Australian police arrest host of lunch that left 3 guests dead from suspected mushroom poisoning

Australian police have arrested the host of a luncheon gathering that left three guests dead from suspected mushroom poisoning and a fourth fighting for life ByROD MCGUIRK Associated Press November 1, 2023, 11:44 PM A police officer and dog investigate at the property of Erin Patterson in Leongatha, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Australian police … Read more

Australian woman arrested after suspected death-cap mushroom poisoning

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Australian police have taken a woman into custody for questioning as part of their months-long investigation into the mysterious deaths of three people in a suspected case of mushroom poisoning. Erin Patterson invited two couples to lunch at her rural home in the state of Victoria, Australia, … Read more

Data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against AI scraping. Here’s how

Derikjohn/Getty Images A major issue plaguing generative AI models is AI scraping, the process used by AI companies to train their AI models by capturing data from internet sources without the owners’ permission. AI scraping can have an especially negative impact on visual artists,  whose work is scraped to generate new art in text-to-image models. Now, … Read more

Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search

It may be difficult for search engines to automatically detect AI-generated text. But Microsoft could have implemented some basic safeguards, perhaps barring text drawn from chatbot transcripts from becoming a featured snippet or adding warnings that certain results or citations consist of text dreamt up by an algorithm. Griffin added a disclaimer to his blog … Read more