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Domestic partners are “increasingly likely” to use chemical and biological toxins to kill or harm their partners, a trend so alarming that the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to law enforcement.The warning came in a January intelligence note, obtained by ABC News, that said people intent on harming or killing their domestic partners are turning to poisons like cyanide or ricin to do it, which are “often sourced from online black markets or made at home.”“The use of chemical and biological toxins in domestic violence cases poses a significant challenge for detection and prosecution due to the often…
ICE halts ‘all movement’ at Texas detention center after measles casesDHS confirmed two measles cases at the South Texas Family Residential Center, and have stopped all movement inside the facility,Southern California public health officials are warning residents to watch for measles symptoms after travelers infected with the contagious virus visited Disneyland, the Los Angeles International Airport and other places in the region in recent days.It comes as the virus, which had been declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, surged in cases last year, including outbreaks in Texas and an ongoing outbreak in South Carolina. In Northern California, officials…
Free groceries, courtesy of your favorite prediction market.That’s the stunt that both Kalshi and Polymarket are attempting to pull off in New York City, in an apparent nod to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to open city-run grocery stores.Kalshi’s offering arrived first, offering shoppers up to $50 worth of free groceries at Westside Market, a grocery store in Manhattan’s East Village on Tuesday. Business Insider attended the event and found a long line. The long line for Kalshi’s $50 grocery giveaway in NYC on Tuesday. Business Insider/Henry Chandonnet The promotion runs from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET at Westside Market…
COPENHAGEN, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk warned on Tuesday that profits and sales could drop as much as 13% this year, the first declines in years, in a new setback for the obesity drug pioneer as it struggles to claw back market share from rival Eli Lilly.Novo said its outlook was hit by lower realised prices, especially in the U.S., fierce competition and the expiry of patents on semaglutide — the active ingredient in its Wegovy and Ozempic drugs — in some markets outside the U.S.The Danish group expects adjusted operating profit and adjusted sales at constant…
Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex, directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate is available to all Apple Developers today from the developer website and will hit the App Store a bit later. This latest update comes on the heels of the Xcode 26 release last year, which introduced support for ChatGPT and Claude within Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used by those building apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac,…
Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex, directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate is available to all Apple Developers today from the developer website and will hit the App Store a bit later. This latest update comes on the heels of the Xcode 26 release last year, which introduced support for ChatGPT and Claude within Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used by those building apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac,…
OpenClaw and Moltbot are the talk of the tech town right now, but cybersecurity researchers have flagged some concerns that you might want to think about.OpenClaw — first known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, all in the same week — has got the tech world buzzing thanks to its abilities to autonomously perform tasks like managing a user’s schedule.Meanwhile, Moltbook has gone viral for its Reddit-style social network, where AI agents post and interact with one another. No humans allowed — apart from observing.But as the tech world memed about the two latest AI talking points and Elon Musk pondered aloud…
Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby’s mother drank raw milk during pregnancy.The New Mexico Department of Health in a news release said that officials believe the mother consumed unpasteurized milk while pregnant, which could have led to the listeria infection.Officials cannot pinpoint the exact source of the listeria that led to the baby’s death, the release said, but it noted that “the tragic death underscores the serious risks raw dairy poses to pregnant…
A growing number of people are asking OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights. KJ Dhaliwal (pictured left), who in 2019 sold the South Asian dating app Dil Mil for $50 million, says he has been thinking about the inefficiencies of the U.S. healthcare system ever since he was a child acting as a medical translator for his parents, and he saw the advent of LLMs as an opportunity to do something about it. In May 2024, he launched Lotus Health AI, a free primary care provider that’s available…
Want to use Grindr’s AI products? You might have to cough up almost $500 a month.Grindr is in early testing for a new, higher-priced subscription tier called “Edge,” the company confirmed to Business Insider. The company has already piloted this tier in Australia and New Zealand, and is now bringing it to select American cities.As part of this testing, Grindr is trying different price points that vary from user to user. Test pricing starts at $80 a week and goes into the hundreds.Screenshots posted online show monthly subscription rates of $349.99 and $499.99. At those prices, one year of Grindr…