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Dog Days An at-home DNA testing kit for dogs claimed that human saliva returned various dog breed results — and when pressed, the firm held firm. As Boston's WBZ-TV reports, the Toronto-based DNA My Dog company told not one but two humans who sent cheek swabs in that their results contained Alaskan Malamute genes, calling into question […]

Be careful what you tell AI chatbots, because apparently, it's easy for hackers to figure out. "Currently, anybody can read private chats sent from ChatGPT and other services," Yisroel Mirsky, the head of the Offensive AI Research Lab at Israel's Ben-Gurion University, told Ars Technica in an email. "This includes malicious actors on the same Wi-Fi […]

Forgetting words is a common experience — but when your speech starts slowing, it could signal something worse. As dementia researchers explain in The Conversation, a new study had found that slowed-down speech may be a greater early indicator of dementia than "lethologica," the medical term for forgetting words. Conducted by researchers out of the […]

Not As I Do One of the world's most famous YouTubers is begging wannabe influencers not to follow in his footsteps. "It’s painful to see people quit their job/drop out of school to make content full time before they’re ready," MrBeast posted on X-formerly-Twitter. "For every person like me that makes it, thousands don’t." "Keep […]

Strong Resemblance Employees at a wildlife center in Richmond have taken to wearing a supersized fox mask to help feed a baby fox — and folks online are pointing out that it looks a lot like, well, a fursuit. The story started off extremely wholesome, as it were: employees began wearing the fursuit-looking full-head mask, […]

Curious Causes As Boeing continues being in the news for its repeatedly malfunctioning planes, the fallout from one ex-employee's death continues — and new reports complicate the coroner's initial suicide ruling. In an interview with Charleston, South Carolina's ABC4 News, a friend of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, whose body was found dead in a car parked […]

Four on the Floor In a new bill, Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing for a 32-hour work week that wouldn't result in a pay markdown. As Sanders announced in a statement, the bill is geared towards helping ensure that "workers share in the massive increase in productivity driven by artificial intelligence, automation, and new technology." […]

Resistance is Futile This year's South by Southwest (SXSW) is full of fraught ideologies, and its audiences have had enough. As tweets from the annual festival show, folks were mighty unhappy when a sizzle reel promising that artificial intelligence is the best thing since sliced bread was screened before an unrelated rom-com. "The incredibly pro-AI […]

The constitutionally enshrined freedom of expression apparently doesn't extend to transgender space camp employees in Alabama. That's the resounding message, per The Birmingham News, as Republican elected officials and reactionary influencers alike melt down over one parent's claim that a trans person is working at Huntsville, Alabama's US Space and Rocket Center. In an interview […]

Anyone There? One of NASA's latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity's message out to the stars — and this one's searching for life outside of our pale blue dot. As Gizmodo reports, the space agency has recruited a nonprofit specializing in research and design for future interstellar messaging to assist in […]