Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet. But if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler.

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An owl who became a celebrity after he escaped from the Central Park Zoo in New York City and defied capture for weeks will be allowed to keep his freedom. For now. Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl, was sighted Thursday night as zoo staffers tried to lure him with bait and recordings of eagle owl calls, the Central Park Zoo said in a statement. Flaco has been on the lam since he escaped Feb. 2 when his exhibit was vandalized, sparking a manhunt that involved park rangers and even police officers. Several attempts have been made to capture the fugitive bird of prey.

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His paper was called “the miracle result.” But it never turned into an Alzheimer’s treatment. Now, four former Genentech senior scientists and executives allege that an internal review in 2011 discovered the paper had been based on fabricated research — and that Marc Tessier-Lavigne kept the results of the review from becoming public. He denies the allegations.

A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10. The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet. But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.

In 2021, a California state court threw out a feminist blogger's lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc (TWTR.MX) of unlawfully barring as "hateful conduct" posts criticizing transgender people. In 2022, a federal court in California tossed a lawsuit by LGBT plaintiffs accusing YouTube, part of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), of restricting content posted by gay and transgender people. These lawsuits were among many scuttled by a powerful form of immunity enshrined in U.S. law that covers internet companies. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 frees platforms from legal responsibility for content posted online by their users. In a major case to be argued at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, the nine justices will address the scope of Section 230 for the first time. A ruling weakening it could expose internet companies to litigation from every direction, legal experts said. "There's going to be more lawsuits than there are atoms in the universe," law professor Eric Goldman of the University of Santa Clara Law School's High Tech Law Institute said.

Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions. In our case, endangering trans people is the lodestar that shapes our coverage.

One of the country’s largest food sanitation service providers has paid $1.5 million in penalties for illegally employing at least 102 children to clean meatpacking plants on overnight shifts in eight states, the Labor Department announced Friday. The company, Packers Sanitation Services, allegedly employed minors as young as 13 to use dangerous chemicals to clean “razor-sharp saws,” head splitters and other high-risk equipment at 13 meatpacking facilities. The plants are operated by some of the country’s most powerful meat-processing companies, including JBS Foods, Tyson, and Cargill. Those companies were not charged or fined. Investigators learned in recent months that at least three children suffered injuries during their work.

f you believe Middle Tennessee's newest congressman, he's not only a businessman, he's also an economist, a nationally recognized expert in tax policy and health care, a trained police officer, even an expert in international sex crimes. But an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered that Andy Ogles' personal life story is filled with exaggerations, a story that's often too good to be true.

On Saturday night in Hanover’s main opera house, Marco Goecke, a renowned German choreographer, smeared dog feces from his aging dachshund, Gustav, on the face of a dance critic. Now, five days later, Mr. Goecke, 50, has lost his job as ballet director there. On Thursday at a news conference in Hanover, Laura Berman, the opera house’s artistic director, announced that Mr. Goecke was leaving his post “by mutual agreement.”

When COVID-19 was at its worst, many doctors wanted to go where they were most needed. Their bosses said no. Since the Federal Trade Commission opened the public comment period for its proposed ban on non-compete agreements in early January, the agency has received an outpouring of responses from medical workers, particularly physicians. An overwhelming majority of those public comments have supported the ban. They detail how these restrictive contracts impose a burden on medical staffers and impaired hospitals' response during the heights of the pandemic. Noncompetes both contributed to the early retirement or burnout of doctors and then dissuaded many out of work physicians from re-entering health services to help at hospitals in need during the pandemic. Across the economy, companies force workers to sign employment agreements that block them from leaving their jobs for competitor firms. First used for executive-level positions, these clauses spread down the economic ladder and have become especially ubiquitous in healthcare. A 2018 study looked at noncompetes in medical centers across five states and estimated that almost half of physicians were bound by these contracts. The FTC will hold a public forum on Thursday for employees bound by non-compete agreements and other affected parties to discuss the proposed ban. The forum will feature at least one physician on the panel to speak to the direct impact of these employment restrictions on the medical workers.

Dropping protections such as free tests and Medicaid continuous coverage will leave many uninsured and undocumented people without access to care for COVID-19.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul suffered a big political defeat Wednesday as the state Senate rejected her pick to lead New York's highest court.

The official decision to not charge the Florida congressman reportedly came Wednesday, months after investigators recommended against filing charges. Isabelle Kirshner, one of two attorneys representing Gaetz, told The Daily Beast in a statement that the Justice Department informed them of the decision on Wednesday. “We have just spoken with the DOJ and have been informed that they have concluded their investigation into Congressman Gaetz and allegations related to sex trafficking and obstruction of justice and they have determined not to bring any charges against him,” Kirshner wrote in the statement. The breadth and scope of the evidence makes it all the more frustrating that the feds won’t pursue the case, Greeberg’s lawyer said on Wednesday. “You’ve got multiple witnesses. You’ve got Venmos. You’ve got Uber receipts. You’ve got flight receipts and text messages,” Fritz fumed.

The Bing bot said it was "disappointed and frustrated" in one user, according to screenshots. "You have wasted my time and resources," it said.

The rail catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio, is a case study in disaster capitalism.

A ruling citing the state’s parentage act could have substantial implications for marriage equality and LGBTQ+ parental rights nationwide, legal experts warn.

Deep inside the Earth, something strange is happening that scientists are trying to explain.