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Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto
Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars.
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2 years, 4 months ago
Generative AI Doesn’t Make Hardware Less Hard
Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with…
2 years, 4 months ago
Elon Musk's Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design
Neuralink experienced a mechanical issue with its first human brain-computer interface implant. Its novel design may make it more prone to failure.
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2 years, 4 months ago
How Not to Get Brain-Eating Worms and Mercury Poisoning
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had both a brain parasite and mercury poisoning at the same time. Just how rare is each con…
2 years, 4 months ago
OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn
OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ ge…
2 years, 4 months ago
OpenAI Offers an Olive Branch to Artists Wary of Feeding AI Algorithms
ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. M…
2 years, 4 months ago
No One Knows How Far Bird Flu Has Spread
With little incentive for US farmers to test their cattle, and many undocumented laborers on dairy farms, the full scale of the outbreak is unclear.
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2 years, 5 months ago
The US Government Is Asking Big Tech to Promise Better Cybersecurity
The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default p…
2 years, 5 months ago
The White House Has a New Master Plan to Stop Worst-Case Scenarios
President Joe Biden will update the directives to protect US critical infrastructure against major threats, from cyberattacks to terrorism to climate…
2 years, 5 months ago
Net Neutrality Returns to a Very Different Internet
The FCC voted 3-2 to restore net neutrality rules that had disappeared during the Trump administration.
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2 years, 5 months ago