It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge...
Are Rebel Moon and Army of the Dead Now the One True Snyderverse?
“Snyderverse.” Whether you know the word or not, odds are you’ve heard it. And, for several years, it very clearly referred to the series of DC...
News publisher files class action antitrust suit against Google, citing AI’s harms to their bottom line
A new class action lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. District Court in D.C. accuses Google and parent company Alphabet of anticompetitive behavior in violation...
Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot Copilot gives wrong election information
It appears that Microsoft’s AI chatbot is an election truther. According to a new study conducted by two nonprofit groups, AI Forensics and AlgorithmWatch, Microsoft’s AI...
It’s Been 2 Months. Why Can’t NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?
In September, fragments of a near-Earth asteroid were carefully dropped off in the Utah desert. The space rocks hold clues to the origin of the solar...
The Weirdest Medical Cases of 2023
It’s once again time to crane our heads sideways in bafflement at all the strange ways people got sick or hurt this year. Read more… Source...
Proper Extensions Are Finally Landing on Firefox for Android
One of the most-awaited additions to Firefox on Android is extension support. Not only will it help the browser stand out even further from the sea...
Twitch Reverses Policy on ‘Artistic Nudity’ After Just Two Days
That didn’t take long: just two days after livestreaming giant Twitch announced a more permissive approach to certain sexual content, including “artistic nudity,” the company has slammed...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for December 15, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell Get This Deal $2.99 An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by...
Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones
Apple silently fixed an exploit that let Flipper Zero devices mass-bombard nearby iPhones with popup notifications, so much so they would essentially disable users’ phones requiring...
