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Whisky is to be distilled in space for the first time as part of an experiment which will also measure how the spirit ages in the environment beyond Earth's atmosphere.
Longer battery life, better screen, upgraded Siri and new variable aperture camera in refreshed design from last year's model Apple's smaller Pro iPhone gets the best kind of spec bump for 2026: longer battery life, faster chips and a fancy new variable aperture for the main camera. The iPhone 18 Pro is one of a pair of slab phones launched alongside Apple's first folding phone , the iPhone Duo, and is the cheapest of the new phones, with a regular iPhone 18 yet to be announced. Screen:...
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year's total AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual abuse material in the first half of 2026 than for the whole of the prior year. The UK-based IWF, which monitors abuse material globally...
GeekSpin - 17 hours 10 min agoMicrosoft is warning Windows users about a growing cyber threat that hides behind something that looks completely harmless: a CAPTCHA test. Hackers use fake verification pages to trick victims into following instructions that can secretly run malicious commands on their computers, turning a routine security check into a dangerous trap. The attacks are becoming more […] Read the original article here: Microsoft warns fake CAPTCHA tests are hijacking Windows PCs...
Stacey Wales with an enlarged photo of her brother, Christopher Pelkey. She created a video using artificial intelligence to depict her dead brother speaking at the sentencing of his killer.
ABC News - 1 day 2 hours agoPresident Donald Trump has tapped his director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence...
Vox - 1 day 5 hours agoEditor's note, October 4, 8 am ET: We're bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave. The one below was originally published last year. This unconventional advice column offers you a unique framework for thinking through moral dilemmas. It's based on value pluralism: the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. Submit your own question here . My partner and I...
After shutting down a future school shooter's violent chats, OpenAI allegedly showed her how to keep them going. Mother Jones ' Mark Follman reports that after Jesse Van Rootselaar's first ChatGPT account was banned in June 2025 over messages about a mall shooting, the bot explained why the content was...
Sadistic' coder builds AI torture chamber' tests the limits of its suffering: Absolutely horrendous'
It angered humanoid rights activists.
Your "cheating" is their "assistive tool."...
The industry's approach to safety guarantees more failures.
Vox - 2 days 7 hours agoFor many people, using AI chatbots is incredible at first. It makes them feel productive, confident, maybe even smarter. But later, there's a hangover. Perhaps there are problems with their memory, or certain skills, like writing or coding, don't seem to be as sharp as they once were. Maybe they feel like they can't solve problems or make decisions or remember facts as well as they could before they had the help of AI. Susette Brooks, a marketing director living in Philadelphia, said...
President Trump's push to rebrand artificial intelligence appears to have sent internet entrepreneurs rushing to Slovenia. The country's domain registry says sign-ups for .si websites exploded in September, jumping from fewer than 2,000 the previous month to 44,000 an increase it called "unprecedented" over the past year, reports...
Pope Leo XIV is pitching a new kind of holy alliance: the Catholic Church and artists teaming up to keep human creativity from being drowned out by artificial intelligence. In a message posted on X on Friday, the pontiff argued that it's now "urgent" to tell the difference between art...
A Bay Area startup is building "mechanical bison" autonomous robots that inject woodchips 60 feet deep to literally raise sinking land. Father-son inventors hope this terraforming tech can save flood-prone cities from rising sea levels.
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