A programmer has re-created the original “digital rain” from The Matrix as well as the variations from the sequels and put it on GitHub. | Continue reading
In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen. | Continue reading
A water-based drone we’ve never seen before just showed up near Sevastopol. Authorities say they destroyed it. | Continue reading
Chess's cheating saga continues: “This is unprecedented. Magnus is refusing to play against Hans!" | Continue reading
“Housing? Surely there must be other ways to deal with the unhoused.” | Continue reading
Several groups are coming together to study the little understood phenomenon. | Continue reading
“Frankly, they’re in a pretty good spot. So long as we don’t have World War III,” an analyst says. | Continue reading
Staff and students received phishing emails disguised as invitations to academic events and scientific review. | Continue reading
among the interviewees, two NASA astronauts, an astrophysicist, and a former Greek Minister of Finance # | Continue reading
Amazon is not happy with how hard regulators are going at the company and its founder during a probe into its business practices. | Continue reading
Motherboard identified multiple schools that have adopted e-HallPass to track students' movements. | Continue reading
Organizers said OAN journalists violated the conference’s privacy policy. | Continue reading
In 2008, Enric Duran stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from European banks to start a progressive hacktivist commune. Nathan Schneider traveled to Catalonia to meet the man, who is still on the run from the authorities. | Continue reading
Kim Stanley Robertson wrote an optimistic trilogy about humans living on Mars, but in 2022 Earth is way too messed up. | Continue reading
“So why wait? Dare, and take what is yours,” the ad says. | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept attack with a device that can send electromagnetic pulses to a touchscreen, simulating a finger’s tap. | Continue reading
Amazon's newest effort to normalize its surveillance network will feature footage from Ring surveillance cameras and commentary from comedian Wanda Sykes. | Continue reading
The popular apps used by millions of users all run the same software, called Electron. | Continue reading
Texas’ strained electric grid failed during a winter storm that resulted in hundreds of deaths. Cruz says Bitcoin is the solution. | Continue reading
A recent "gigantic jet" of lighting shot up 50 miles into space, a phenomenon that scientists are just beginning to understand. | Continue reading
Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager’s private chats about her abortion. Cops then used those chats to seize her phone and computer. | Continue reading
Music supervisors are the reason why songs on shows like “Stranger Things” go viral. They told VICE how they decide what makes the cut. | Continue reading
The submachine gun–firing robot dog can be remotely shut down with an AI dolphin branded hacker’s tool. | Continue reading
A relic, a fossil, and a halo are among the bizarre features that defy existing theories, according to a new study. | Continue reading
The corporate giant has purchased a company that uses robots to map the interior of people’s homes. Also, it vacuums. | Continue reading
Étienne Klein’s tweet was liked and retweeted thousands of times before he revealed he was trolling and the photo showed a slice of sausage, not Proxima Centauri. | Continue reading
A new study from Columbia finds that low wages in middle age can accelerate cognitive decline in older age. | Continue reading
Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God. | Continue reading
The wholesome Canadian chain caused a scandal when its privacy violation was revealed, and now it's proposing a free coffee and a baked good as restitution. | Continue reading
A review confirming what has long been known is being used to make misleading claims about antidepressants—and shows the gap between scientific knowledge and public understanding. | Continue reading
Instagram will also be pushing more video content from creators you don't follow onto your Feed. | Continue reading
The pandemic has provided a huge new opportunity for hackers, scammers, and criminals to target frightened and vulnerable people. | Continue reading
European orbiter captures Mars’ epic Valles Marineris, which is roughly the diameter of the continental US. | Continue reading
An AI deterrence regime would necessitate an AI Hiroshima. | Continue reading
An anarchist biohacker collective has developed a DIY kit to make and discreetly mail abortion medication at home. | Continue reading
Banning private jet flights like the one Kylie Jenner took over the weekend is a massively popular idea with little to no political movement behind it. One man says that needs to change. | Continue reading
"HOW LONG MUST I FEAR", wrote one citizen beset by robocalls. | Continue reading
But it's all good: Bravo is planning to make great content out of it. | Continue reading
Google researchers said the app was designed to figure out who may want to use this kind of app. | Continue reading
A vibrant community of BMW “coders” has modified the luxury vehicles for years. Now they’re ready to unlock BMW’s controversial heated seat subscription. | Continue reading
An already beleaguered workforce confronts a legion of impersonators and a platform they say isn’t doing enough to stop them. | Continue reading
Co-founder Aaron Davis says in his first joint interview with Dan Finlay that "it feels too little too late, but putting your money in cryptocurrencies is gambling." | Continue reading
We’ve entered a ‘crypto winter’ the NFT marketplace CEO told employees. | Continue reading
She “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia,” says a Wikipedian. | Continue reading
Thousands of imprisoned and abused workers are propping up Southeast Asia’s ‘pig butchering’ industry, an online fraud emptying bank accounts across the world. | Continue reading
A new subvariant is all the rage, but where did the name come from? | Continue reading
The billionaires want more people on Earth, but are intent on building a horrible world for those people. | Continue reading
The Jan. 6 committee obtained the encrypted chat, named F.O.S. or “Friends of Stone,” which included leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. | Continue reading