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Microsoft is accusing three individuals of running a “hacking-as-a-service” scheme that was designed to allow the creation of harmful and illicit content using the company’s platform for AI-generated content. The foreign-based defendants developed tools specifically designed to bypass safety guardrails…
Global temperatures were the hottest on record in 2024; it was the first year where the average temperature topped 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times.
A study published in Sexual Health has found a connection between involvement in sex work and symptoms of muscle dysmorphia among adolescents and young adults in Canada. Researchers found that individuals with a history of sex work reported higher levels…
The enormous near-Earth asteroid (887) Alinda has made its closest approach to our planet in decades, and it’s about to peak in brightness in a rare once-in-a-decade event. Here’s how to watch it live this weekend.
Meta has reportedly ended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that influenced staff hiring and training, as well as vendor decisions, effective immediately. According to an internal memo viewed by Axios and verified by Ars, Meta’s vice president of human…
The US health department on Friday declared a public health emergency for California in response to devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area that have so far killed 10 people and destroyed more than 10,000 structures. As of Friday morning,…
Self-reports are superior to implicit measures for assessing psychological constructs, argue Olivier Corneille and Bertram Gawronski in their perspective piece published in Nature Reviews Psychology. For decades, psychology has increasingly relied on implicit measures, such as the Implicit Association Test…
Welcome to Edition 7.26 of the Rocket Report! Let’s pause and reflect on how far the rocket business has come in the last 10 years. On this date in 2015, SpaceX made the first attempt to land a Falcon 9…
The Consumer Electronics Show is a reliable source of announcements about iterative updates to PCs and PC components. A few of those announcements are significant enough in some way that they break through all that noise—Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs and…
Hookworms that cause deadly dog infection and ‘creeping eruption’ in humans are growing resistant to drugs.
