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Coca-Cola will be adding cane sugar to its ingredients list after all.“We’re going to be bringing a Coke sweetened with US cane sugar into the market this fall, and I think that will be an enduring option for consumers,” Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said on a second-quarter call with investors and analysts on July 22.The company initially declined to comment on its intentions to use cane sugar after President Donald Trump claimed it would do so in July.“I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,”…
The Florida Department of Health is warning about the risks of drinking raw, unpasteurized milk after 21 people, including six children under the age of 10, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk from the same farm. Seven people have been hospitalized, and two have developed severe complications.”Sanitation practices in this farm are of particular concern due to the number of cases,” the department said in a news release. Officials did not identify the farm, but indicated its products were available in Northeast and Central Florida. CBS News has reached out to the health department…
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to stop enabling its users’ unhealthy behaviors.Starting Monday, the popular chatbot app will prompt users to take breaks from lengthy conversations. The tool will also soon shy away from giving direct advice about personal challenges, instead aiming to help users decide for themselves by asking questions or weighing pros and cons.“There have been instances where our 4o model fell short in recognizing signs of delusion or emotional dependency,” OpenAI wrote in an announcement. “While rare, we’re continuing to improve our models and are developing tools to better detect signs of mental or emotional distress so ChatGPT can…
To tease its new phone, Google dunked on Apple — and soundtracked it to Snoop Dogg.In a new advertisement for the coming Pixel 10 smartphone, Google took a shot at Apple’s delayed launch of its AI features. Apple announced an overhauled, “more personalized” Siri powered by Apple Intelligence at the Worldwide Developers Conference in 2024, but has yet to roll the feature out.”If you buy a new phone because of a feature that’s ‘coming soon,’ but it’s been ‘coming soon’ for a full year, you could change your definition of ‘soon’ — or you could just change your phone,” the ad’s…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers activated Max Muncy from the injured list and put fellow infielder Tommy Edman on the list Monday.Muncy has been out since July 2, missing nearly five weeks with a bone bruise in his knee after a collision on a tag play during a game against the Chicago White Sox. The veteran slugger had been on a monthlong roll at the time of his injury, boosting his OPS to .832 with 13 homers and 55 RBIs.Muncy returned more quickly than the initial six-week projection for his recovery. He was batting fifth and playing…
Apple’s mission to put a camera in everyone’s hand may have backfired.The Apple community is buzzing about a photo posted on social media recently that purportedly shows an unreleased iPhone 17 being tested in the wild.In the photos, shared by X user @Skyfops, a person wearing sunglasses and a hat holds up two phones while walking down the street. One of them clearly looks like an iPhone with its Apple logo covered by a piece of black tape — the other device looks a bit different.The second device, which appears to be in a case, has a camera lens placement…
Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities. Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software. Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company’s AI department DeepMind as well as its elite team of hackers Project Zero, reported its first-ever vulnerabilities, mostly in open source software such as audio and video library FFmpeg and image-editing suite ImageMagick. Given that the vulnerabilities are not fixed yet, we don’t have details of their impact or…
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Aaron Judge could be back in the New York Yankees’ lineup as early as Tuesday, when their captain is eligible to come off the 10-day injured list after being sidelined because of a flexor strain in his right elbow. Judge hit off Yankees minor league pitchers at the team’s complex in Tampa for the second day in a row Monday before flying to Texas, where he was seen in the dugout during the opener of a three-game series. Manager Aaron Boone said the two-time AL MVP could be available Tuesday. “I don’t want to say definitely…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is set to execute an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, as uncertainty lingers about whether the device will shock his heart when a lethal drug takes effect.Barring a late reprieve requested from the governor, Byron Black’s execution will go forward after a legal back-and-forth over whether the state would need to turn off his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD. The nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center said it’s unaware of any other cases in which an inmate was making similar claims to Black’s about ICDs or pacemakers. Black’s attorneys said they haven’t found a comparable…
In an unambiguous message to the global developer community, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke warned that software engineers should either embrace AI or leave the profession.His candid statement, part of a blog post titled “Developers, Reinvented,” underscores the dramatic transformation underway in software development, a shift not just in how code is written, but in the very nature of what it means to be a developer.The blog drew from interviews with 22 developers already deeply integrating AI into their workflows. Their experiences paint a clear picture: AI isn’t a distant future, it’s a present necessity.”Either you have to embrace the Al,…