Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center

UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’

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Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman showed a consistent pattern of lying

"In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime"

Examining DNA from 15,836 ancient human remains, scientists found 479 genetic variants that appeared to have been favored by natural selection in just the past 10,000 years

Film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye). This montage work portrays a momentous American epoch that is yet to be named, and comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history - focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism

Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder

German court ruled that TCL misled consumers by marketing certain TVs as "QLED" when they "do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs." It has ordered the company to stop advertising or selling those models in Germany

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job

The rise and fall of the player piano indicates a robust demand for human labor that machines cannot replace

Binance is hoping that suing (PDF) The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups

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Facebook is absolutely cooked

And I don't just mean that nobody uses it anymore

Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error

This article by a former NASA engineer and Google veteran argues that building datacenters in space is a terrible idea due to challenges with power, thermal regulation, radiation tolerance, and communication

This article from IEEE Spectrum discusses the CRASH Clock, a warning system that predicts the time before a catastrophic satellite collision in low Earth orbit

Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. A recent analysis by Buzzstream shows that 79% of the top 100 news websites are blocking at least one crawler used for AI training, such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot

article argues that Elon Musk's social media platform X must be banned due to its enabling of AI-generated explicit images, including child pornography, and its promotion of far-right content. It criticizes the lack of swift action by regulators and politicians, despite the clear harm being caused to women and children

12 Real-Life Inventions That Were Inspired By Science Fiction

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