• We got dire wolves before we got Winds of Winter.  (USA Today)
  
  (Joke stolen from approximately eleventy trillion people because I gave up after the first book.)
  
  Massive Dynamic - the company that recently gave the world woolly mice - has successfully reintroduced fluffy white dire wolf* pups, genetically modifying existing grey wolves with ancient samples of dire wolf DNA.
  
  (Shoves New Scientist back into the locker.)
  
  * Genome may settle in shipping.

• The S in MCP stands for "security".  (Elena Cross)
  
  MCP, which stands for something, is a software bus for connecting multiple LLMs together.
  
  Every single component of it is insecure in multiple different ways.
  
  
  
• NIH scientists say they have a cancer breakthrough but it is being delayed by layoffs.  They are lying.  (MSN)
  
  They have one study that showed some improvement in 25% of patients using personalised immunotherapy on colorectal cancer.
  
  
  
• The Bigme B7 is a 7" colour e-ink tablet with a pretty decent 300 dpi resolution.  (Liliputing)
  
  That's 1264x1680 in this case, which is fine.  But only applies in black-and-white; when you use colour the resolution is cut in half, which kind of sucks.
  
  Pre-order price is $229.
  
  
  
• The "abruptly former" Microsoft employee who went insane and accused Clippy of genocide is now in fact former.  (The Verge)
  
  Clippy is innocent.
  
  
  

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