2025-07-19
Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users
Without even looking at medical data, it's pretty clear that "artificial intelligence," the suite of large language model (LLM) chatbots which seem to be taking over the world, can have...
Peeling Back The Remoteness of Sources
Published on July 19, 2025 5:41 PM GMTWhen you think about it, most of what we know comes at a remove — many removes often.Most of what we know in...
The Catholic Church Reportedly Called in an Exorcist to Deal With "Yeti Cult" Running Bizarre Blood Rituals at Archdiocese of Denver
What started as a routine weekend getaway for seminarians from the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in 2024 took a hard left into the surreal. The Archdiocese of Denver confirmed...
Jake the Rizzbot Moves to California, Comes Out as Gay
The Bot Closet In the few weeks since being unveiled, Jake, a slang-spewing "rizzbot," has moved to West Hollywood and come out as queer. As NBC4 Los Angeles reports, Jake...
10 years ago, Obsidian made the only D&D-style Monk I've ever really loved—all it took was grounding him in harsh asceticism, mortification of the flesh, Aztec history, and stoner comedies
Monks are often really lame in RPGs, but Zahua is not.
OpenAI's gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad
OpenAI's gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad This feels notable to me. OpenAI research scientist Alexander Wei: I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM...
Myke Hurley Interviews Yours Truly for the Cortex ‘State of the Workflow’ Series
Myke Hurley: For this episode, I took a slightly different approach for the main section, following step-by-step how John writes and publishes an article. I think this is a template...
Puck: ‘Was Colbert’s Cancellation Really “Economic” for CBS?’
Matthew Belloni, writing at Puck (paywall-busting gift link) regarding the claim from anonymous CBS sources that The Late Show lost $40 million last year: Nobody can know for sure. All...
A DIY mad scientist from Poland built his own CPU out of dozens of ancient memory chips
This is the DIY project to end all DIY projects.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Outsmarting Akamais Bot Detection with JA3Proxy (7/19/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 19, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The SS Great...
AI Data Centers Accused of Creating Major Problems for Local Water Systems
After Meta started building an enormous data center less than 400 yards away from their house, a couple living in Newton County, Georgia, says their water started to dry up....
CVE-2024-43402: What You Need to Know
On April 9th, 2024, the Rust Security Response WG disclosed CVE-2024-24576, where std::process::Command incorrectly escaped arguments when invoking batch files on Windows.
Sequential Coherence: A Bottleneck in Automation
Published on July 19, 2025 3:27 PM GMTIntroductionWhy hasn't AI automated away more professions? One way of investigating this question is to compare the skills that real jobs require with...
Doctors Say Ozempic Is Wildly Effective at Helping Addicts Beat Cravings
With their lengthening laundry list of health benefits, drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are showing promise outside of weight loss and diabetes treatments. One of the most exciting off-label uses...
Popular Sugar Substitute Marketed to Diabetics Linked to Stroke, Heart Attack, Brain Cell Damage
A widely-used sugar substitute found in products marketed to people with diabetes might contain more risks than rewards. In a new study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers...
The Sims 4's rampant pregnancy bug was apparently caused by 'performance optimizations' and has now been fixed
"Any Sim pregnancy related mods should return to their pre-update functionality."
Godot 4.4 Beta 2: The Highlights and Changelog
For an overview of what’s new overall in Godot 4.4, have a look at the highlights for 4.4 beta 1, which cover a lot of the changes.
For-Profit Hospital Chain Reportedly Left Patient Lying in Pool of His Own Blood
tk The US post-acute care industry, which deals with rehab and long-term care facilities, was worth an estimated $483 billion in 2024, and is expected to grow to over $785...
Can you identify these games from their bland-faced, generic-looking protagonists?
The most forgettable heroes in the business.
How Misaligned AI Personas Lead to Human Extinction – Step by Step
Published on July 19, 2025 1:59 PM GMTIn this video, we walk you through a plausible scenario in which AI could lead to humanity’s extinction. There are many alternative possibilities,...
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