Frank Landymore

Are generative AI models mass plagiarism machines? Many people would argue yes. For creating products that regurgitate other people's content, AI companies get billions of dollars in investments, while the creators whose works were purloined by the machines get nada. That's the way Bill Gross, a tech entrepreneur, sees it anyway, and he says he […]

Digging Deep A team of researchers have recovered the deepest sample ever taken of the Earth's mantle from a section of seafloor in the Atlantic Ocean. At more than three quarters of a mile in continuous length, the cylindrical sample is also the largest of its kind. The drilling was carried out last year, but […]

Total Snitch A security researcher has demonstrated that Microsoft's Copilot AI can easily be manipulated into pulling an organization's sensitive data, including emails and bank transactions. On top of that, Wired reports, it can also be weaponized into a powerful phishing machine that requires little of the effort usually needed to carry out these kinds […]

Need a Lift? How ancient Egyptians managed to build their astonishingly large but precisely engineered pyramids is something that scientists are still trying to piece together. It's no secret that they were fairly technologically sophisticated for their day, but new research suggests that at least one pyramid was built using a technology altogether more ingenious: […]

It's the setup to a meeting of the minds for the ages. Wildly popular podcaster Joe Rogan has just announced his support for presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr — and we couldn't name a more potent matchup of two credulous meatheads, one of whom says he has brain worms, while the other at least […]

Have the Bots You know, most social media sites try to purge bots from their platforms. But Meta-owned Instagram says hey, why not let people create their own bots, using — wait for it — AI? This is the push behind Meta's newly released AI Studio, which allows US-based Instagram accounts to create an AI […]

Homegrown Greenhouse Mars may be the most Earth-like of the other planets in our Solar System, but it is still an inhospitably cold desert world with little atmosphere to speak of. If humans are ever going to have a sizable foothold on the Red Planet, then we would have to terraform it, many argue. Until […]

All Systems Go Robert Zubrin, president and founder of Mars Society, is arguing — as always — that humanity shouldn't settle for just the Moon. Instead, NASA should be gunning to bring astronauts to the Red Planet now, he said in an interview with Forbes last week, and believes that SpaceX's massive Starship will play […]

Boom or Bust? It's been a rough week for the tech industry. If the AI bubble hasn't already burst, it's certainly poised to, now that investors are waking up to the idea that what they've poured their money into may be, in fact, a bubble. Which is sort of what makes bubbles burst in the […]