California Man Fined $1,000 for Drawing Lines on Maps
The board stated that to depict the location of property lines and fixed features requires a license.
Scientists Discover Arctic Waters Are Rapidly Becoming Acidic in Dire Climate Warning
The western Arctic Ocean's high rate of acidification magnifies the impact of carbon dioxide on all of our oceans, which will likely face a similar fate.
AI Can Now Generate Videos From Text, Courtesy of Facebook
Make-A-Video is the first time we are seeing a text-to-video tool that will soon be available to the public.
AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out
In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen.
A Gen Z Coder Just Took a Conservative Group's Anti-Student Loan Relief Campaign Offline With Spam
The Job Creators Network is no longer asking the internet how "unfair" student loan relief is after coder Sean Wiggs unleashed his spam script.
ISIS Executions and Non-Consensual Porn Are Powering AI Art
AI is progressing at an astonishing speed, but we still don’t have a good understanding of the datasets that power AI, and little accountability for whatever abusive images they contain.
Amazon Driver Fired for Posting Photo of Customer’s Dildo to Reddit
“Didn't take em long to terminate the OP. Certainly not as long as that dildo.”
This Hacker Is Trying to Close the Gender Pay Gap in Cybersecurity
Katie Moussouris is trying to make working in cybersecurity more equitable for all.
Chinese Influencers Take Over IKEA By Posing as American Teens in Front of Their Lockers
The trend romanticizes a stereotypical American private school uniform, with influencers wearing pleated skirts, ties over white collared shirts, loafers, blazers, and looking straight out of something like Gossip Girl or Clueless.
'The Silence of My Critics Speaks for Itself:' Hans Niemann Says He Is Being Unfairly Attacked in Chess Scandal
Chess’s biggest cheating scandal has gotten more intense, with Chess.com banning Hans Niemann after his controversial match with Magnus Carlsen.
Was This Viral UFO Photo a Hoax Generated By an AI?
A Midjourney user claimed that they created the viral Valle Hermoso UFO hoax using AI, but that claim itself appears to be a hoax. What's the truth?
Do We All See Baby Mark Zuckerberg as Jesus in This 18th Century Sculpture?
“I think the biggest resemblance that got me was the haircut and even the ears."