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One Chat GPT User Generated Nearly 28000 Fanfiction Chats and It Gets Even More Bizarre From There
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (601+ words) AI is turning fiction into an endless, private, personalized loop. Somewhere on the internet, one anonymous person spent months asking Chat GPT to thousands of variations of the same fanfiction. Normally, we'd chalk this up to the "weird corners of…...
Your Old Phones Are Probably Sitting in a Drawer and Researchers Say That Is a Bigger Problem Than You Rhink
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (257+ words) People don't usually plan to hold onto their old devices, but that's what many end up doing. Better information about recycling and reselling options could change that....
People Who Used Instagram for Years Were More Likely to Be Fooled a Stranger's Face Was Their Own in Bizarre VR Experiment
2+ week, 2+ day ago (279+ words) A new study suggests Instagram may shape not just how people judge their looks but how their brains decide what counts as their own face...
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Explains Where He Sees Wikipedia Between AI Chatbots and a Dead Internet
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1863+ words) Home " Other " Interviews In an age of AI hallucinations and collapsing trust, Jimmy Wales argues that Wikipedia's human transparency may be exactly what makes it worth trusting. For much of its 25-year life, Wikipedia has lived with a big question…...
A $200 Chat GPT Plan Would Cost Them $14, 000 If You Used It To the Max
3+ week, 2+ day ago (196+ words) AI subscriptions have a massive money problem....
Wi-Fi Routers Can Identify People with Stunning Precision (Even When Their Phones Are Off)
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (421+ words) A by-product of modern Wi-Fi could soon be used to identify you....
A Student With Radio Gear Halted Taiwan's Bullet Trains and Exposed a Huge Security Gap
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (637+ words) His defense is hilarious. A university student in Taiwan allegedly used a homemade radio setup to send a fake emergency alarm into the country's high-speed rail system, briefly disrupting train service and exposing a security problem that had been sitting…...
Your Phone Really Does Get Heavier When You It's Full (But You Can't Feel It)
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (102+ words) Digital files have weight, but your hand will never notice....
Fiber Deployment in the US Could Unlock Trillions in Wealth and Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (448+ words) Home " Research " Technology Internet in the US is lagging far behind. It's time to do something about it. The internet has become a fundamental infrastructure in almost every country on the planet. It's almost a basic human right at this…...
Inside the Creepy Cold War Radio Broadcast Sending Secret Codes into Iran
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (918+ words) It begins with a scratchy burst of static, followed by a man's voice cutting through the air. "Tavajoh! Tavajoh! Tavajoh!" he commands in Persian. Attention. Then, slowly and rhythmically, he recites a string of seemingly random numbers. The broadcast repeats…...