3+ week, 6+ day ago   (56+ words) Honestly, this is a pretty good example of one fairly simple way that facts can change. That Pluto was a planet was a fact until we decided / learned / discovered that there were too many similar bodies in the solar system…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1239+ words) “I didn’t know that AI could hallucinate facts,” New Mexico defense lawyer says. The New Mexico Supreme Court held a ChatGPT-using lawyer in direct contempt of court for submitting a brief with “false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses,” including fake…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (476+ words) Judge tosses lawsuits, says plaintiffs didn’t allege any real privacy violation. “The federal court determined that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the LinkedIn users’ claims,” Howell told Ars today. “The court did not adjudicate whether LinkedIn’s surveillance practices were lawful....

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1034+ words) “Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.” Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings. Kreuzkamp founded a…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (683+ words) Apple’s first foldable can be yours next month. Apple ended today’s hardware event with one of its classic “One more thing” reveals. Some smartphone makers have been offering foldable phones for the better part of a decade, but Apple has…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (481+ words) “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” When a prominent researcher quits a job at a frontier AI lab these days, it’s often to pursue a new startup or protest a new business model. But AI researcher…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (339+ words) Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant. On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1631+ words) Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt. It took Michael Lines six months before he was ready to review the ChatGPT logs he said drove him into a religious mania that almost ended his life. In…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (369+ words) Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks. Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. Dustin Childs, a…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (384+ words) Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls’ Instagram pics. “If Meta’s ad approval process can’t detect and reject such obviously horrific content before it is shown to Facebook and Instagram users, then Meta’s whole ad review system…...