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Someone Has Apparently Hacked the University of Arizona’s Website

Oopsie. Slot Me Up It appears that hackers have compromised the University of Arizona’s website — and posted a bunch of stuff about what seems to be a Southeast Asian online casino. On what used to be the catalog site for the UofA’s Academic Program Requirements Reports, there is now a bunch of Indonesian-language text… Continue reading Someone Has Apparently Hacked the University of Arizona’s Website

World Chess Champion Loses $30,000 Prize By Clicking Wrong Square

Well, that’s embarrassing. Master Class The world’s top chess grandmaster apparently made a fat finger error for the ages when he accidentally lost a game by dropping his queen on the wrong square — and it apparently wasn’t the first time, either. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen lost a tie-breaking online… Continue reading World Chess Champion Loses $30,000 Prize By Clicking Wrong Square

The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under

The company is burning through cash at an alarming rate. Burning Cash Stability AI, a startup that’s made a huge name for itself by helping develop the incredibly popular open-source image generator called Stable Diffusion, is in serious trouble, Semafor reports, burning through cash at an alarming rate without a clear path to profitability. The… Continue reading The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under

Economist Warns That Capitalism May Be Ending

“The end of Greedflation must surely come. Otherwise, we may be looking at the end of capitalism.” Closing Time The world is changing, and it’s getting more expensive — while wages, as most working people have witnessed in their own lives, have failed to keep up with the rising cost of pretty much everything. According… Continue reading Economist Warns That Capitalism May Be Ending

Record Label Forces Takedown of AI-Generated Eminem Rapping About Kitty Cats

“Eminem loves cats until the very end, they may drive us crazy, with their constant meows.” Copyright Takedown Record label behemoth Universal Music Group has issued a copyright takedown notice against a YouTuber, Vice reports, who created an AI-generated song about kittens using the voice of world-renowned rapper Marshall “Eminem” Mathers. The copyright strike, which… Continue reading Record Label Forces Takedown of AI-Generated Eminem Rapping About Kitty Cats

Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — and that’s rapidly becoming a very real problem for the journalism industry. Reporters at The Guardian noticed that the AI chatbot had made up entire articles and bylines that it never actually published, a worrying side effect of democratizing tech that… Continue reading Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published

New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague

Image by Getty / Futurism Doctors experimenting with AI tools to help diagnose patients is nothing new. But getting them to trust the AIs they’re using is another matter entirely. To establish that trust, researchers at Cornell University attempted to create a more transparent AI system that works by counseling doctors in the same way… Continue reading New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague

Cursed Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Food

We’ll take one 3D-printed Plasticburger to go, please. Plasticburger Researchers at a startup called Beehex are working on a way to transform plastic waste into edible biomass — all with the help of a lab-engineered, plastic-eating bacteria. “What you see over here is a shipping container… we have completely changed that,” founder Anjan Contractor said… Continue reading Cursed Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Food

Tesla Employees Have Secretly Been Sharing “Intimate” Car Camera Videos

“We could see inside people’s garages and their private properties.” Passing Around Videos Employees at Tesla have secretly been watching and passing around “intimate” videos recorded by Tesla car cameras, Reuters reports, despite the company claiming that the cameras are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” According to the report, employees privately… Continue reading Tesla Employees Have Secretly Been Sharing “Intimate” Car Camera Videos