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Steve McMichael, a Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears with a theatrical personality and a ferocious intensity who helped anchor what might have been the most predatory defense in the history of the N.F.L. during the team’s 1985 Super Bowl-winning season, died on Wednesday in Joliet, Ill. He was 67.The Bears confirmed his death, in hospice care. The team said he had struggled for years with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the degenerative disease of the nervous system more commonly known as A.L.S. or Lou Gehrig’s disease.McMichael played 15 years in the N.F.L., 13 of them with Chicago and…

Hello WIRED subscribers! Thank you to everyone who attended our most recent AI Unlocked webinar. I really enjoyed our lively discussion about ChatGPT’s software features and wish I could have answered even more of your questions about using generative AI tools.I really enjoyed the questions about what ChatGPT can do beyond just chatting. Image search is a feature I use often, and here are my first impressions of the tool that I recorded back in September 2023 when it first dropped. I use ChatGPT’s image search tool nowadays by snapping a picture with my phone when I don’t recognize something.…

A little over two years ago, the actor Jeremy Renner was run over by a seven-ton snowplow. In a new memoir, he wrote that as he lay near death, he experienced something extraordinary.He could see his entire life at once, and felt an “exhilarating peace” and a connection to the world. He also saw family and friends arrayed before him, telling him not to let go.“What I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy,” Mr. Renner wrote. “There was no time, place or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from…

So you’re about to graduate from college. Congratulations. But now you have to think about finding a job and, sooner than you may prefer, starting to repay your student loans.It’s especially important to understand your options, experts on student borrowing say, because many aspects of the federal student loan system are in flux.The system, which has always been challenging to navigate, is only now creaking back into full operation after years of Covid-era pauses on payments and collections. And court challenges to a low-cost repayment option, along with program changes floated by the Trump administration and House Republicans, have created…

British counterterrorism officers have arrested eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, in connection with two separate investigations, London’s Metropolitan Police said on Sunday.In one of the cases, four Iranians and another man whose nationality has yet to be determined were detained on Saturday on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act against a single site.“The investigation relates to a suspected plot to target a specific premises,” the police said in a statement issued early Sunday. The police added that the site was not being named “for operational reasons.”Dominic Murphy, the head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, said the investigation…

You’ve probably seen a cat or dog swing their ears toward a sound. We can’t move our fairly rigid ears this dramatically. But people still possess ancient ear-moving muscles. Some of us can even wiggle our ears on demand. And, it now turns out, they’re more active than anyone knew. Andreas Schröer is an ear-muscle expert. An ear wiggler himself, he’s also a neuroscientist at Saarland University. That’s in Saarbrücken, Germany. Schröer was part of a team that asked 20 people with normal hearing to listen to a recorded voice. Meanwhile, distracting podcasts played in the background. Electrodes around the…

The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro say they thwarted a planned bomb attack by a hate group targeting children, teens and the LGBTQ+ community at Lady Gaga‘s record-breaking concert held at Copacabana Beach last night, which drew over 2 million attendees. In a press release, the agency, in coordination with local officials, said it served 15 search and seizure warrants across nine cities in four states: Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, Duque de Caxias and Macaé, in the state of Rio de Janeiro; Cotia, São Vicente and Vargem Grande Paulista, in the state of São Paulo; São Sebastião do Caí…

Transgender women will be barred from playing for women’s soccer teams in England from June 1, the Football Association, the sport’s governing body in the country, said on Thursday.In a statement, the Football Association, known as the F.A., said that it had changed its policy as a result of a Supreme Court ruling last month, which said that Britain’s equality laws were based on “biological sex” and that trans women did not fall within the legal definition of women.The F.A. is the latest body to update its policies. All public and private groups in Britain must now incorporate the ruling…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Question: What product should use machine learning (ML)?Project manager answer: Yes. Jokes aside, the advent of generative AI has upended our understanding of what use cases lend themselves best to ML. Historically, we have always leveraged ML for repeatable, predictive patterns in customer experiences, but now, it’s possible to leverage a form of ML even without an entire training dataset. Nonetheless, the answer to the question “What customer needs requires an AI solution?” still isn’t always “yes.” Large language models (LLMs)…

Prime minister of Yemen’s internationally recognised government has resigned amid political turmoil.Israel has intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, the third such attack by Houthi forces in a 24-hour span, as the United States continues daily attacks on the country. The Israeli army confirmed on Saturday it had activated air raid sirens across parts of the country following the missile launch. No injuries or major damage were reported. Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it a response to Israeli operations in Gaza. The Houthis have increasingly targeted Israel and shipping routes in the Red Sea, stating…