Claims about technology, AI, and the companies that build it.
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Google Gemini's independently measured median prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours of electricity and produces approximately 0.03 grams of carbon-dioxide-equivalent emissions.
MOSTLY BS
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Generative artificial intelligence assistance can increase worker productivity, with larger productivity gains for less-experienced workers.
NOT BS
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Frontier large language models achieve similar aggregate accuracy on public benchmarks.
HARDLY BS
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A longer-range version of the Sureshastra Mk1 loitering munition has a maximum range of up to 300 km.
HARDLY BS
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The CEO of Cloudflare said that, for the first time ever, bots make up more than 50% of internet traffic.
NOT BS
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Ninety-eight percent of LinkedIn posts are written by artificial intelligence.
TOTAL BS
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Journalist Jason Schreier said that Grand Theft Auto VI is about 90% likely to release on November 19, 2026 with no further delays, after Rockstar Games opened pre-orders for the game.
TOTAL BS
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More than $100 million has been invested in open source maintainers and projects through GitHub Sponsors.
NOT BS
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ORCA (Omni Role Combat Aircraft) was envisioned as the Indian Air Force’s land-based twin-engine variant of the naval TEDBF (Twin Engine Deck Based Fighter).
NOT BS
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Lockheed Martin’s PAC-3 Adapted Capability Effector (PAC-3 ACE) is a new low-cost Patriot interceptor that costs less than half as much per unit as the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) and can engage short-range ballistic missiles.
HARDLY BS
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A former DRDO chairman/chief said that one Indian Air Force Netra Mk-1 AEW&C aircraft has been upgraded to the Netra Mk-1A standard with a GaN-based AESA radar, increasing detection range from about 240–300 km to about 450–500 km, and…
MOSTLY BS
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Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty said that gamers are too obsessed with single-player games.
TOTAL BS
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) acknowledged that an AWS customer was mistakenly shown an estimated bill of $1,500,000,000,000 due to a problem with AWS’s estimated billing system.
HARDLY BS
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National Aerospace Science & Technology Park (NASTP) experienced a data breach.
TOTAL BS
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Files relating to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, described as India’s largest nuclear power plant, were exposed in a data breach.
NOT BS
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A threat actor is offering for sale 31 GB of allegedly exfiltrated highly sensitive data belonging to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian military for USD 8,000.
HARDLY BS
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The ransomware group World Leaks posted a large cache of files related to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on the dark web.
NOT BS
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A threat actor using the alias "Zu1f1q4r" claimed to have leaked a database belonging to Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
NOT BS
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei submitted a report to the United States Congress stating that, after an investigation, Anthropic found that Kimi K3 may have distilled an Anthropic model that had not yet been fully developed.
TOTAL BS
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Starlink is available in Côte d'Ivoire.
NOT BS
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