‘It’s a cult’: Inside effective accelerationism, the pro-AI movement taking over Silicon Valley — They have “e/acc” on their X handles and sun god memes in their social feeds::“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, Y Combinator president Garry Tan and Notion co-founder Chris Prucha looked up at the cartoon of a shirtless...
Lasers Could Soon Power U.S. Military Bases—And Not Even Jamming Could Stop It::We spoke to the project manager for DARPA’s POWER program, who explains how the wireless energy transfer technology will work.
Apple threatens Colombian mobile phone repairman with jail time::While many people are keeping an eye on Apple’s launches and the arrival of the iPhone 15 in September, a mobile phone and technology repairer has become the centre of attenti
DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks::“To whoever it is at Apple who decided to not make this available to technicians, ‘Fuck you, we win.’”
The people going ‘monk mode’ to limit social media use::A growing number of individuals are using apps to block access to social media and the internet.
Title is somewhat misleading. It’s not for anything video-related. It’s for using a (probably free) photo of actress Cuca Escribano without permission.
Man Jailed In UK’s First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot::Jaswant Singh Chail was sentenced to prison for 9 years for attempting to assassinate the Queen after discussing the plan with an AI companion.
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.
“In total the researchers confirmed eight devices with backdoors installed—seven TV boxes, the T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS, and MXQ Pro 5G, and a tablet J5-W. (Some of these have also been identified by other security researchers looking into the issue in recent months).”...
