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The western Arctic Ocean's high rate of acidification magnifies the impact of carbon dioxide on all of our oceans, which will likely face a similar fate.

“Any deliberate attack against Allies’ critical infrastructure would be met with a united and determined response.”

Everything you ever wanted to know about the scandal that’s captivated the world of professional chess.

The regulators appear to have taken offense at modifying an electric vehicle to run on gas.

ButtFish is a program that, hypothetically, would let someone communicate to an AI chess program using a butt plug.

The Israeli military said the turret won’t fire live rounds.

The independent MP digitally slaughtered the former PM at a charity event over the weekend.

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.

A water-based drone we’ve never seen before just showed up near Sevastopol. Authorities say they destroyed it.

To create the powerful AI art generators, engineers are training programs to soak up as much data as possible without questioning where it’s coming from.

In 1962, Vasily Arkhipov made a fateful decision that averted a nuclear war. Now his story will be sung.

Augury is so thorough one expert told us, “It’s everything. There’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity.”

AI is progressing at an astonishing speed, but we still don’t have a good understanding of the datasets that power AI, and little accountability for whatever abusive images they contain.

russiangas1 spent the past few days burning gas and bragging about it. Now they're banned from Twitch.

While Europe faces the possibility of a winter without Russian gas, one troll is running a stovetop 24/7 live on Twitch.

The new iPhone has been completely redesigned on the inside and it’ll be much easier and cheaper to fix than previous models.

Footage of the upcoming “Grand Theft VI” hit the internet over the weekend and Rockstar Games has struggled to pull it down.

The Uber hack is another warning about using your phone for 2FA.

“Didn't take em long to terminate the OP. Certainly not as long as that dildo.”

Several groups are coming together to study the little understood phenomenon.

The Pentagon’s favorite think tank found that lack of access to abortion will deepen the U.S. mililtary’s recruiting crisis.

The Navy has more UFO videos it won’t show you and a cheating scandal is rocking the world of chess.

“Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” proves anime is the perfect venue for CDPR’s world, but the story is a little too similar to the game.

The U.S. left behind a wealth of military equipment when it left Afghanistan. That doesn’t mean the Taliban knows how to use it.

The U.S. Army is training its troops to fight against a modern threat: swarms of coordinated commercial drones.

Ukraine has used equipment in Kyiv to study the skies. The results are bizarre.

The court will allow a restraining order filed a year ago to proceed with some small changes.

Unionised Apple workers in Australia told VICE World News that they plan to protest poor pay by refusing to sell certain products or to work at all.

In “Survival of the Richest,” Douglas Rushkoff explains why tech billionaires seem desperate to buy their way out of civilizational collapse.

Frogwares is celebrating its successful Sherlock Holmes Kickstarter campaign by giving fans a chance to write a message on an artillery shell.

Jason Allen's AI-generated work "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" took first place in the digital category at the Colorado State Fair.

Listen to “Hypercane,” another story from Motherboard’s first ever short story collection.

Goats and Glory is looking for gamers and the State Department wants to send gamers to Saudi Arabia.

Say hello to the Super Bonker 9000.

The defense manufacturer has partnered with the STEM oriented nonprofit to provide leadership and technical training to college students.

The lost nuke has never been found—only the pilot's helmet was recovered, and the government kept it secret for years.

Listen to this roundtable discussion about startling new research about how even a small nuclear war would kill billions.

“It’s almost like everyday you wake up and you’re punched in the stomach," the billionaire CEO told Rogan.

Listen to ‘Drones to Ploughshares,’ another story from Motherboard’s first ever short story collection.

Like many prequels to a beloved franchise, ‘House of the Dragon’ is a pale imitation of something you once loved.

Apple is selling people more tools that will let them fix their MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros.

Listen to ‘The Counselor,’ another story from Motherboard’s first ever short story collection.

“I think the biggest resemblance that got me was the haircut and even the ears."

A new study on the effect of nuclear winter makes a dire prediction about the aftermath of a major nuclear war.

A new Mozilla report found that most pregnancy and period-tracking apps could be doing a whole lot more to protect users’ privacy.

Keller ISD has pulled all versions of the Bible from school shelves in a recent purge to remove LGBTQ books and other ‘controversial’ titles.

I think it’s fair to say that fans of Tesla and CEO Elon Musk trust him with their children’s lives.

An interview with David Weekly, the man who sued a spam texter for $1,200 and won.

When it comes to nuclear weapons, basically everything is classified.

In ‘Flyover Country,’ we see a world where U.S. factories churn out iPhones using prison labor.