How Sugar and Sedentary Lifestyle Affects Men
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Simple lifestyle changes that will help reduce stress
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Behind the Blog: New Music and a Crash Out
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss developers’ AI woes, how the magic happens, and the Beach Boys. JOSEPH: Earlier in the week we published ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on…
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work. Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X: “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading…
Mayo Clinic is Using AI to Listen to Emergency Room Visits
Mayo Clinic, the massive U.S. hospital network, is using what it describes as “Ambient Listening” to record patient interactions with nurses, including in emergency rooms, then using AI to process that collected data. The recording is opt-out, rather than opt-in, and at least some patients are likely not aware the recording is happening. The recording…
DOGE Cuts Unleashed a Deadly Wave of Violence Across Africa, Study Finds
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. The sudden shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by DOGE in 2025 is associated with a rise in violent conflicts across Africa, according to a study published…
Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users’ Poops
A few weeks ago, I came across a wild post on Reddit’s r/DHExchange, a subreddit for trading large datasets: “I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what’s [sic] you expect…150k stools images.” The post, made by a user called Ill_Car_7351, was advertising exactly what it sounds like: A database of poop images,…
May’s Patch Tuesday hauls out 132 CVEs
With advisories, this month’s count approaches 300 – though many are already in place Categories: Threat Research, X-ops Tags: Patch Tuesday, MICROSOFT PATCH TUESDAY
Why AMOS matters: The macOS malware stealing data at scale
Sophos X-Ops looks at the Atomic macOS Stealer and its capabilities Categories: Threat Research Tags: MacOS, AMOS, infostealer
At Least We Know the Washington Post Isn’t Buying Views
An eon ago, in the year 2012, an editor at my first job at U.S. News and World Report had the idea that we should have a YouTube channel. It wasn’t a pivot to video, exactly, but it would be a bet on an emerging platform where some creators were beginning to go viral with…
War and Data Centers Are Driving Up the Cost of Fiber Optic Cable
Fiber-optic cable has become a staple of drone war. From Ukraine to the Sahel, combatants are fielding quadcopters piloted via kilometer-long lengths of cable that allows operators to control them across vast distances while insulating the drone from being knocked from the sky. This technique was once a cheap way for militaries to beat their…
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
Tech company executives are confident that AI will completely transform the economy and point to the changes they see in-house to prove that this change is coming fast. At Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, leadership says that AI generates a growing share of the overall code, which makes it cheaper and faster to produce. The…