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Updated 25 Oct, 04:30
15 articles
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An Ancient Virus Explains Why the Human Brain Is Special
Scientists have discovered a family of retroviruses that invaded the genomes of chimps and other primates, silencing genes involved with brain development, while humans were left unaffected.
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Podcast: ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the Next Wave of AI Slop
How people are removing surveillance ads from their TVs; a big AI shakeup at Accenture; and the Character.ai bankruptcy.
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Behind the Blog: Brute Forces
This week, we discuss reverse engineering and some wild court docs.
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Portal Texas Used to ‘Rubber Stamp’ Data Centers Down After 404 Media Reporting
Commissioners in Texas said they’re making sure ‘all applications are reviewed by agency staff to determine if they are related to data centers.’
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This Woman's Living a CashApp Scam Nightmare
A CashApp scam mess, Airbnb hosts crashing out, and much more.
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AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next
'Black October:' The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next.
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AI Is Already 'Amplifying the Destruction' of War
The people who write the Laws of Armed Conflict want to put guardrails on AI weapons systems. Will the world listen?
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Cops Warned to Look for ‘Suspicious Behavior’ From People Opposing Flock at City Council Meetings
A surveillance document tells cops to expect "emotional confrontations" at Flock city council meetings.
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Someone Opened a CashApp In Her Name. She Faces Years in Prison
Amanda Smith is charged with computer fraud due to a scam CashApp account being in her name. But in a Kafkaesque situation, CashApp won't provide her any information because she can't prove she is the owner.
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Chestnuts Roasting on a Data Center
An endangered American chestnut grove faces a new threat: A massive data center.
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The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight
A small grove of historic American chestnut trees has become the site of resistance against an AI data center in West Virginia.
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DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied
Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.”
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People Are Using 'AI Decompiling' to Hack Their Things
A gang of hackers targets Staples, but not to buy things from Staples.
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‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI
Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything.
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Scientists Discover A Strange Particle Explains the Origin of Reality
Why is the universe the way it is? A long-overlooked particle might have given matter an edge over antimatter in the split-seconds after the Big Bang, which researchers say “could transform our understanding of cosmic evolution and the…