Noor Al-Sibai

While it might not be regularly considered a high-risk lifestyle factor, the so-called loneliness epidemic may be harder on one's health than most people realize. In a press release about new research, the Regenstrief Institute data informatics firm said that its study, conducted alongside the Indiana University School of Medicine, suggests that a majority of […]

When invited to hack into a Las Vegas hotel's infrastructure, a group of digital good Samaritans discovered a glaring security issue with its lock system — and more than 18 months later, the company still hasn't fully fixed the problem. As Wired reports, hackers Ian Carroll and Lennert Wouters discovered the insecurities with RFID-enabled doors made […]

Mind Over Matter A groundbreaking theory claims that everything in existence possesses some form of mind or consciousness — including, as one biologist suggests, the Sun itself. In a fascinating dive into this worldview, which adherents call "panpsychism," Popular Mechanics reports that this out-there concept has, in fact, existed for thousands of years, and in its […]

Tennessee's governor has signed into law some of the country's first protections against AI fakes — but it's unclear how effective, or even how legal, the new legislation is. In a Nashville honky tonk, TN's Gov. Bill Lee enacted the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act, or ELVIS Act for short, that the state […]

After months of speculation, Princess Catherine of Wales — otherwise known as Kate Middleton, the wife of Prince William, the heir to the British throne — has revealed that she has cancer. In a new video posted on X-formerly-Twitter, Middleton addressed the camera directly even as she glossed over rumors about her seeming disappearance from […]

On the morning of March 15, workers at The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk arrived to find that one of the facility's endangered siamang gibbons had given birth — and soon, the musical primates were heard literally singing the baby's praises. In a Facebook post about the new addition, the zoo announced that mother Malana and […]

CEO Eyes Only OpenAI has apparently been demonstrating GPT-5, the next generation of its notorious large language model (LLM), to prospective buyers — and they're very impressed with the merchandise. "It's really good, like materially better," one CEO told Business Insider of the LLM. That same CEO added that in the demo he previewed, OpenAI tailored […]

As next-generation weight-loss treatments like Wegovy and Zepbound continue to fly off the shelves, scientists are busy working on a medicine that may mimic the effects of exercise. As explained in an American Chemical Society press release about the potential pill, trials thus far on SLU-PP-332, the potentially groundbreaking compound in question, show that it […]

The team behind a promising new menopause treatment says they want to empower women to choose when — or even if — they go through menopause. As the Daily Mail reports, fitness model/molecular biologist Daisy Robinton waxed prolific about the forthcoming drug she and her company, Oviva Therapeutics, are creating to change menopause as we know […]

Therefore AI Am If you give an AI an inner monologue, it apparently starts teaching itself to be smarter. In an academic paper that not yet been peer-reviewed and was published to arXiv, an open-source database, researchers from Stanford and a group calling itself "Notbad AI" have teamed up to create an AI model that […]