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Once seen as a groundbreaking leader in sustainability and a quirky futurist, Musk—recently crowned the world’s first trillionaire—is better known these days for his record-breaking donation to Trump’s 2024 campaign, being the brain behind DOGE, the dismantling of Twitter,...

OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers...

The scholars explore these topics in “How AI Sees the City: Urban Visual Intelligence,” published this month by Routledge. The authors are Duarte, a principal research scientist and associate director of the MIT Senseable City Lab; Mazzarello, a research...

More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert.Whatever happened to those barrels?Scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible to investigate...

Ofcom has launched an investigation into Pornhub owner, Aylo, over whether the site's new age checks are effectively stopping children from accessing adult content.The regulator said in May that Pornhub started using a new age verification process for some...

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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day vulnerability that gives locally...

Motion capture usually calls for specialized cameras, tracking markers, and a space built around the job. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a very different setup using just four iPhones.Called...

A regular digital camera isn’t the first thing you’d expect to use for this kind of solar-cell measurement. Researchers have now shown that much cheaper consumer camera hardware can handle part of a job normally done with carefully calibrated...

The US has criticised Australia's proposal to give users the ability to opt out of social media algorithms, saying it amounts to "censorship of protected speech".Under Australia's draft digital duty of care laws, tech firms risk hefty fines if...