How Sugar and Sedentary Lifestyle Affects Men
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Simple lifestyle changes that will help reduce stress
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This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Watching people outsource their critical thinking, emotions, and sanity to glitchy “AI” chatbots has been one of the most uniquely terrifying aspects of being a human being in recent years. While wealthy tech evangelists like Sam Altman continue to make wild proclamations about how large language models (LLMs) are destined to do our jobs and…
An Adrenaline Junkie Millionaire’s Quest to Become a Cocaine Kingpin
The British de Havilland DH-112 Venom is one of the most iconic combat jets of the Cold War, with a distinctive two-pronged tail design that stretched out far behind the main body of the aircraft and a striking red and black paint job. It also gained a reputation for handling issues at high speeds. And…
Ridicule as Praxis (with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna)
This week, Sam talks to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna about the marketing ploys of “artificial intelligence,” why ridicule works to keep big tech’s claims in check, and what makes them hopeful for the future. They’re the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. Dr….
NICKEL ALLEY strategy: Fake it ‘til you make it
Victimizing software developers via fake companies, jobs, and code repositories to steal cryptocurrency Categories: Threat Research Tags: NICKEL ALLEY, Contagious Interview, North Korea, clickfix
Scientists Narrow Down the Hunt for Aliens to 45 Planets
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that visited strange new worlds, broke the adorability scale, pigged out, and took in an alien light show. First, scientists sift through thousands of planets to find the best possible sites for life. Then: meet a Cretaceous cutie, check out some python blood, and…
Behind the Blog: Marathon and the Metaverse
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 getting stories from Twitter, the metaverse, and the new game Marathon. EMANUEL: I think I’m addicted to Twitter again. We haven’t written a ton about the war…
Tiny City Fears Iran Drone Strikes Because of New Nuclear Weapons Datacenter
The tiny city of Ypsilanti, Michigan, is worried about being a target for drone strikes thanks to a planned datacenter that the University of Michigan is building to support nuclear weapons research According to Douglas Winters, the city’s attorney, the University and Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) “have put a big bulls eye target on…
Android devices ship with firmware-level malware
Keenadu malware gives an attacker control over a device but appears to be used primarily to facilitate ad fraud Categories: Threat Research Tags: Android, Keenadu
RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted
A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what they’re doing2) lol 3) lmao, even…
Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll
Tinder plans to let machine vision algorithms loose on your camera roll. Instead of building a profile on their own, AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos—everything from gym selfies to pictures of their family, sensitive documents and dick pics—to help construct profiles by determining what users’ interests and values are. Dating apps are the go-to…