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Sometimes the actions of gross dweebs cross a line. I don’t believe in capital punishment. No, you shouldn’t actually die for nerdiness-related crimes, but sometimes a sort of execution should be staged anyway. You should be marched down a sort of death row. You should be made to say your last words. Your crying family members should sob, and you should be lifted in the air by two grave-looking high school football players in varsity jackets, turned upside

A round of layoffs just hit Samsung’s operation in the U.S. In addition to the obvious human dimension as people lose their livelihoods, it’s spotlights a tough reality for Samsung: its consumer tech arm is struggling even as its chip and memory business goes stratospheric. A report from Reuters places the number of layoffs at about 839. Samsung confirmed to Reuters that 739 people were being fired in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and about 100 others were

A fascinating new entry in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal column looks at what one might think would be the aftermath of the tokenmaxxing craze, in which companies spend as much money as possible on AI compute—but the Journal finds at least a couple businesses still acting profligate in the extreme, preferring in this case to spend a ton—but on premium-priced frontier models only. The CEO of Twilio, a company that makes automation software that lets

Future YouTubers, heed this warning: Don’t freak people out with your slop. YouTube recently clarified its policies on what it considers to be “inauthentic content,” effectively cracking down on the low-effort, highly upsetting kinds of AI slop that have come to populate the platform more than anyone would like to admit. In a video uploaded by Creator Insider, the company’s official channel for creator-related updates, YouTube’s vice president of trust and

AI is increasingly used in hiring processes, even though critics worry that existing biases may be baked into their algorithms. Now, researchers claim that even in the absence of pre-existing biases, AI models can develop brand new social biases. In a recently published study, a group of researchers from Princeton University and the University of Chicago had a bunch of LLMs complete a hiring game that was previously run with human participants. In the hiri

No one has been more patient with director Neill Blomkamp than me. Not only do I love District 9. I love Chappie, and will defend it to the bitter end (Admit you haven’t seen it, and you only know the famous tweet). I thought Elysium was a flawed success. I showed kindness to Gran Turismo by, um, not watching it. That way I can pretend forever that it might be good. But this? This is unforgivable: Blomkamp generated this… whatever it is, and posted a link

Weak AI safety regulations may “backfire,” creating a product that is potentially more dangerous than AI products created under no regulation, according to a new study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using theoretical economics and game theory principles, a group of researchers from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon University created a theoretical model that aims to show how AI regulation can be most effective at ensu

When Pope Leo XIV issued Magnifica Humanitas, his 43,000-word encyclical calling for people to maintain and protect human dignity in the face of artificial intelligence, some in the AI world started to allege that the head of the Catholic Church used AI to write the document, accusing him of hypocrisy. While the Vatican never really acknowledged the allegations, it has since gone out of its way to discredit them. According to The Guardian, Magnifica Humani

In a blog post from Thursday of last week, the AI software repository Hugging Face announced a bizarre cyberattack on the systems that run its services. “This one was different from anything we had handled before,” the post said, because “it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system.” In its own blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI said its own models were the culprits in the attack, and it’s coordinating with Hugging Face to address the situation.

Schematic of FSS Degisn Software Developed by KRISS. Credit: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully localized core radar stealth technologies through indigenous development, without reliance on foreign technologies. This achievement is a significant milestone, laying the foundation for the establishment of stealth weapon systems in Korea, which have long been difficul

Angolan President Joao Lourenco (L) greets UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (R) during the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Japan. Africa has everything it takes to become a "renewable superpower," UN head Antonio Guterres said Thursday, as he called for greater investment in green energy across the resource-rich continent. Guterres spoke at a three-day development conference in Japan attended by African leaders, where Toky