2025-02-12
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s latest is not easily summarized, but is well-worth a...
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s latest is not easily summarized, but is well-worth a read: Look Past Elon Musk’s Chaos. There’s Something More Sinister at Work.
If You Ask AI Who You're Married To, You May Spit Out Your Coffee
Almost purely by chance, Futurism has discovered a hilarious bug within multiple chatbots that causes it to spit out insane answers when asked about writers' spouses — including multiple fanfiction-style...
Podcast: AI Is Breaking Our Brains
This week we discuss a new Microsoft study that finds using generative AI is "atrophying" people's cognition and critical thinking skills, the right's war on Wikipedia, and, in the subscriber's...
AI Slop of Musk and Trump on TikTok Racks Up 700 Million Views
Motivational videos on TikTok using AI-generated voices of Trump, Musk, and other celebrities are racking up millions of views.
Even the Most Advanced AI Has a Problem: If It Doesn’t Know the Answer, It Makes One Up
As artificial intelligence becomes integrated into our daily lives, researchers are working to tackle its most glaring issue: that AI "hallucinates," or boldly spits out lies, when it doesn't know...
State Department Insider on Elon Musk Accessing Nuclear Weapons: “If You Make Something Idiot-Proof, the World Will Build a Better Idiot”
DOGE With a Bone Elon Musk's government takeover is obviously freaking everyone out — but there's no need to worry about him accessing the nuclear arsenal just yet. In an...
Crossing a line
Borders between one kind of life and another
PINTU Reports 150% YoY Growth in Trading Volume, Driven by AI and Meme Token Surge
PINTU announced a 150% year-on-year (YoY) surge in trading volume, fueled by the explosive growth of AI and meme tokens in 2024. The most traded tokens on PINTU were AI...
TikTok Shopping Is Opening the Floodgates to Scams
TikTok Shop is generally safe to buy from, but it’s important to be careful when purchasing from the online marketplace.
Product Unplugged – Episode 3 with Pierce Healy
Product Unplugged is a virtual video interview series that goes behind the scenes of product innovation. Each episode features an in-depth case study of a product or feature launch, told...
The TechBeat: Hackers Are Becoming a Rarer Breed (2/12/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
What are common product diseases? And how can you overcome them?
In this week’s conversation on The Product Experience podcast, we speak with Radhika Dutt about various product diseases that can hinder effective management and the need for organizations to adopt...
AI Meets Bitcoin: How Rootstock Powers the Future of Trustless AI
Rootstock is the best place to build AI-driven blockchain applications. It brings together Bitcoin’s security and smart contract flexibility. Rootstock offers the security of Bitcoin, the flexibility of Ethereum, and...
The Murky Ad-Tech World Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel
A Florida data broker told a US senator it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, which denies involvement—revealing the opaque nature of online...
Regulatory Clarity Will Define Crypto Wallets in 2025
Web3 wallets are at the core of the Web3 ecosystem. Top wallet providers like MetaMask found success with 100M users by perfecting browser-based DeFi interactions. Europe's Markets in Crypto Assets...
The Trump administration barred an AP reporter from an event because the...
The Trump administration barred an AP reporter from an event because the AP won’t refer to the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”. Something something free speech something something...
An Outline of the Dark Matter Thesis
To explain DM, we introduce a few simple WIMP models that can bypass present constraints and have observable signatures in the future.
Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government...
Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.” And: “This is beyond politics...
What Are the Most Popular Methods of Dark Matter Detection?
In this section, we describe the most popular methods to detect DM.
iTools, Apple’s Original ‘Internet Strategy’, From January 2000
From the Apple Newsroom archive, dateline “Macworld Expo, San Francisco — January 5, 2000”: Apple today took the wraps off its highly anticipated Internet strategy, introducing a new category of...
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