A research team at Ohio State University has taken a surprisingly ordinary ingredient—store‑bought shiitake mushrooms—and connected it to electrodes to see whether the fungus can behave like a memristor. A memristor (short for “memory resistor”) is an electronic component that both processes signals and stores data, promising faster, more energy‑efficient computing […]
To stay in the game, rather than try to outlearn every new release, learn how to use AI to strengthen your finances and build a buffer against industry disruption, says Naja. AI is infiltrating every layer of society, finance included. What began as asking ChatGPT about your deepest money worries […]
The European Union is quietly constructing what may become one of the most sweeping digital identity systems ever attempted. Under new legislation, every EU member state must provide citizens with a government-approved “European Digital Identity Wallet” by 2026. This system will allow people to store official documents, verify identity, access government […]
Awide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenomenon to Au10tix, the software X requires users (even anonymous ones) to use in order to […]
It looks like AI can now unmask any anonymous account on the internet. That’s according to a new study by Simon Lermen (MATS), Daniel Paleka (ETH Zurich), Joshua Swanson (ETH Zurich), Michael Aerni (ETH Zurich), Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic), and Florian Tramèr (ETH Zurich), published on arXiv. In the paper, “Large-Scale […]
This is a stunning revelation into the mind of Donald Trump. Just before the inauguration, Trump’s crypto company, World Liberty Financial, struck a secret deal with the head of security in the UAE for a 49% stake for $500 million. The quid pro quo was for Nvidia’s AI computer chips. […]
“The opportunity is not to build something entirely new, but to connect what already exists into a system that works” as “fraud becomes more sophisticated and AI-driven agents begin to initiate payments on behalf of users.” The World Bank is worried about getting non-banked people into the system; any new […]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has now alleged that officials inside her own department secretly installed spyware on her government phone and computer, claiming the software was used to record meetings and monitor internal communications. She stated that outside technical specialists examined departmental devices and identified suspicious software downloads that […]
Move follows weeks of tension between Pentagon and Anthropic over AI guardrails. The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Ends Federal Use of Anthropic’s AI as Pentagon Labels It Security Risk The federal government will stop working with Anthropic and designate the artificial intelligence company a supply-chain risk, a dramatic escalation of […]
After missing the deadline for the Epstein Transparency Act, the Department of Justice has released an additional 3M pages of Epstein’s emails and documents, many heavily redacted. They are also holding onto an additional 2.5M documents that will remain unreleased, supposedly to protect the victims. Watch on Substack The entire […]