How Sugar and Sedentary Lifestyle Affects Men
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Simple lifestyle changes that will help reduce stress
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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips. Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic are disturbed by their lectures…
People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System
The number of pro se legal cases, meaning trials where a defendant or plaintiff represents themselves in court without an attorney, have increased dramatically since the wide adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, according to a pre-print research paper. The authors of the paper, titled “Access to Justice in the Age of…
Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation
Tweets containing an abstract, psychedelic 3D stock image have million and millions of views on X because it is supposedly the key to a superintelligent, time-traveling AI conspiracy that attempted to warn people about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. I’m gonna try to explain the mind-numbing conspiracy theory that has taken over…
Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive—published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet.” The research also found…
Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious
A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious. That conclusion appears to conflict with the narrative from AI company CEOs, including DeepMind’s own Demis Hassabis, who repeatedly talks about the advent of artificial general intelligence….
Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals’ Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
This week Joseph talks to Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, a journalist at TechCrunch. Lorenzo has possibly the deepest understanding of one of the wildest cybersecurity stories in years: how an employee of Trenchant, a government malware vendor that is supposed to only sell to the ‘good’ guys, secretly sold a bunch of hacking tools to a Russian…
A Mysterious Golden Orb Was Discovered Under the Sea. We Finally Know What It Is.
bWelcome back to the Abstract! Here are the stories this week that battled rivals, devoured sharks, solved riddles, and left fingerprints in the sky. First, scientists chronicle the victories of a jousting champion unlike any other in all of history. Then: it turns out that krakens are real, the mystery of the Golden Orb is…
Supply chain attacks hit Checkmarx and Bitwarden developer tools
Two supply chain attacks, same day, same command-and-control domain Categories: Threat Research Tags: Supply chain, Sophos X-Ops, pipeline, Bitwarden, Checkmarx
Behind the Blog: Waiting in the Apple Store
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 Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very bad ad. EMANUEL: This week we experimented with the podcast format a little bit. We had just finished recording our…