A quantum internet is no longer just theory after scientists successfully teleported the polarisation state of a photon between two completely different quantum dots located in separate buildings

What are scam centres – explained in 30 seconds

Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for the multibillion dollar scam industry, which has proliferated in the region in recent years

"The internet is being increasingly polluted by AI generated text, images and video," argues the site for a new browser extension called Slop Evader. It promises to use Google's search API "to only return content published before Nov 30th, 2022" — the day ChatGPT launched — "so you can be sure that it was written or produced by the human hand."

We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies

The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health

In an essay published in The Verge, Benjamin Riley argues that today's AI boom is built on a fundamental misunderstanding: language modeling is not the same as intelligence

Teheran muss WAS BITTE??

The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.

This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of today’s platforms.

To some, the hyperlink is dangerous and must be controlled

Researchers are turning to drones to help them discover the health and habits of large marine mammals and other wildlife

Most discourse on AI is low-quality. Most discourse on consciousness is super-abysmal-double-low quality. Multiply these - or maybe raise one to the exponent of the other, or something - and you get the quality of discourse on AI consciousness. It’s not great

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another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history"

The Aptera is an electric autocycle with a drag coefficient of 0.13, modern supercars are between 0.30 to 0.39. The carbon fiber body is made in Modena, Italy, at the facility of C.P.C. Group that makes parts for several brands, including Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Maserati. Assembly takes place in Carlsbad, CA. The Aptera has a 400 mile range. Solar panels add 40 miles of range per day to the vehicle, allowing free charging on days you drive less than 40 miles. The three wheeler is a two seater hatchback with plenty of cargo space for your needs. The launch edition target price is $40,000 and goes in to production early 2026

Valve enters the console wars

Valve is rebooting its failed Steam Machine initiative — and this time, it’s building the living room console itself

Valve is ready to rejoin the VR hardware race with the Steam Frame, a lightweight standalone SteamOS headset

At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors

Bayer considers exiting the glyphosate market

The company even went so far as to partner with music library services and production companies under a program called Perfect Fit Content, or PFC. This saw the creation of fake or "ghost" artists that flooded Spotify with songs that were specifically designed to be pleasant and ignorable. It's music as content, not art. [...] Artists, especially new ones trying to break through, actually started changing how they composed to play better in the algorithmically driven streaming era. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened

Meta is retiring Facebook's external Like and Share buttons for third-party websites on February 10, 2026, officially closing the book on a once-dominant traffic driver as usage declines and Facebook's role within Meta continues to shrink

Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans' personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation

Hobart woman Renee Woodleigh is selling a 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.

She says it is a first edition, which a rare book specialist says could "absolutely" be true