by Matthew Gault on (#67RMS)
"Blacks are more stupid than whites," Nick Bostrom wrote in an email sent to a transhumanism listserv in the 1990s that he apologized for in a letter.
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by Matthew Gault on (#67Q3X)
On this episode of Cyber, we’re talking about digital license plates, criminal phone empires, and deepfaked customer service conversations.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#67NVQ)
“We pulled the feature anyway and I wanted to unravel the concern as a thought piece, to help reign in enthusiasm about gpt3 replacing therapists."
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by Matthew Gault on (#67NVP)
The agreement between the tractor maker and a lobbying group has some big caveats.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#67MKQ)
This follows he recent wave of major retailers, which, along with Walgreens, have been voicing their concerns about retail theft.
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by Matthew Gault on (#67MKP)
Researchers built a dataset without permission and left the data exposed in a public dropbox link.
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by Matthew Gault on (#67J5V)
City officials have found around a dozen of the antennas and no one is sure what they're for.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#67J5W)
“Human writing can be so beautiful. There is beauty in the human prose that computers can never and should never co-opt."
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by Matthew Gault on (#67GYC)
Putin says a new ship carrying hypersonic missiles patrolling the Atlantic is Russia's trump card against the West, but the reality is likely different.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#67GPY)
OpenAI’s chatbot could help automate the murky business of corporate political influence, but that wouldn't necessarily be a good thing.
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by Matthew Gault on (#67GFN)
A surgery center in the U.K. accidentally texted its patients two days before Christmas letting them know they had aggressive lung cancer.
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by Matthew Gault on (#67FFA)
According to a report from police, SeaDrone CEO Eduardo Moreno has been arrested on robbery and peeping charges.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#67FCW)
Neuro-sama has quickly become a rising star of the V-tuber phenomenon.
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by Matthew Gault on (#67EEE)
After waiting for months, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a stripped down and much changed version of the Digital Fair Repair Act.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66XNT)
An F-35B crashed in Fort Worth, Texas. This happens more often than you’d think.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66XEK)
New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan sent Valve a letter decrying the vast amount of white supremacist imagery in its user generated content and community spaces.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66XEM)
The experts who use public information to document war crimes and help criminal investigations say Musk's bans will limit the public's knowledge.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66W9V)
Apple’s new tech is a boon for finding lost luggage and tracking your estranged family members.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#66W9W)
Artists are fed up with AI art on the portfolio platform, which is owned by Epic Games, but the company isn't backing down.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66V1B)
Musk said, “My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane,” after taking over Twitter.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66TWJ)
Properly stored ammunition can last a lifetime but Russia has a bad track record of improper storage that leads to massive explosions and death.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66RR3)
At Twitter HQ, everything must go.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66RR4)
AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent, it’s powered by underpaid workers in foreign countries.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66RR5)
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Wilmington scraped videos of trans people from YouTube without permission to create a dataset aimed at stopping hypothetical terrorists.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66RR6)
The kid who interrupted the the Game Awards has a history of pulling pranks, talking about Hong Kong, and appearing on Infowars.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#66NYY)
Wordle fans who don't want to cross a picket line can still get their fix thanks to a strike-themed version called Strikle.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66NYZ)
The almost $69 billion purchase would be the largest in video game history but only if the federal government lets it proceed.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66NZ0)
The original author’s story is one of love, universal accord, and magic mushrooms.
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by Nicolette Accardi on (#66KZS)
Whether you're on a ramen-every-night budget or are a high roller, you've got *options* from Insignia, TCL, and Samsung.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66KND)
Asteroid Launcher lets you throw a space rock at any place on the planet and chart the ensuing chaos.
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by Nathaniel Janowitz on (#66KJE)
Colombian artist Camilo Restrepo placed digital images of cocaine in little baggies around the world famous art festival.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66KG0)
How conspiracy theories are born through livestreams and sometimes lead to real world violence.
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by Koh Ewe on (#66K5Y)
“Security cameras using AI technology are everywhere. They pervade our lives... Our privacy is exposed,” a researcher told VICE World News.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66JBH)
The new Starlink system wants to watch Earth, transfer data, and provide communications for world governments.
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by Maxwell Strachan on (#66J68)
The Asian-American former CEO and co-founder of Iterable alleges in a new lawsuit that the board used a single microdosing incident to mask over the real reason they wanted him gone: He didn’t look the part.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#66J3K)
How AI innovation is powered by underpaid workers in foreign countries.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66H3B)
The Air Force and Northrop Grumman have unveiled the B-21, a bomber the military claims can do it all—including remotely drop nuclear weapons.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66GW1)
The /r/Kanye subreddit is full of Taylor Swift memes and posts educating people about the horrors of the holocaust.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66GT4)
The White House stopped a railroad strike this week and the San Francisco Police Department now has the power to kill people with robots.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66D8J)
A photo of her face on a Kremlin recruitment billboard is just another post from the anonymous depths of the internet.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66BFZ)
Mysterious companies with huge bank accounts are outsourcing landlording to algorithms and buying up America’s cheap houses.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66AMP)
Videos from ‘Arma 3’ have gone viral several times recently as real war footage from Ukraine.
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by Mary Frances "Francky" Knapp on (#66AMQ)
Curious about trying the wünderkind of earphone brands? Nura’s Cyber Monday sale has landed with up to 50% off its high-tech devices.
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by Matthew Gault on (#66AMR)
The futuristic looking revolver is a replica of a .357 from the game ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’
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by Matthew Gault on (#66AMS)
The FSB claimed a symbol from a video game was a flag denoting the groups allegiance to terrorism.
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by Matthew Gault on (#664Z2)
The pictures from state TV are a look inside one of the world's largest deployed nuclear weapons.
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by Matthew Gault on (#664W0)
The billionaire seems like he’s posting through a meltdown on Twitter, but he’s still got an incredible amount of power.
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by Gregory Babcock on (#663QZ)
Who knew there were 69 muscles in the face and neck that needed massaging?
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by Matthew Gault on (#663R0)
A fake digital Sam Bankman-Fried used a Twitter blue account to trick followers into enrolling in a fake crypto giveaway.
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by Chloe Xiang on (#66007)
Either they choose to buckle up and embrace Twitter’s unsure future, or give up their jobs and leave the United States.
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