Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose essential…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary At a talk uploaded to YouTube, 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and long-time C advocate — described his…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The Register argues that modern AI web crawlers are vastly more aggressive than traditional bots and are…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large contemporary trial (REBOOT) and supporting analyses challenge the long-standing practice of…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary A group made up largely of former climate.gov staff are attempting to relaunch the government climate information site as a…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Freelancers and creatives are increasingly being hired to clean up and refine AI-generated work that clients used to…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI has confirmed — in the middle of a blog post about mental-health risks — that it scans…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered at Forest City to attend Network School, an initiative by Balaji Srinivasan inspired by…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37-year-old Brit described as an “AI music creator,” has reportedly signed…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline built by two Israeli researchers (Nahman Khayet and Efi Weiss) used prompts to a large language model…
