The New Yorker

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?

You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively ...
Scientific American

Why Scammers Target Seniors—And What You Can Do about It

Anthony, an older man from California, told ABC7 Los Angeles last October that he had been scammed out of $25,000 by means of a voice generated by artificial intelligence. Anthony, who declined to ...
9to5Mac

When people create Sora deepfakes of you, you can now set limits

While OpenAI describes its latest iPhone app Sora as a video generation tool, it might be more accurately described as a way for anyone to easily create deepfakes. You did get to choose whether or not ...
Android Police

I used NotebookLM to create a personal wiki — here's how you can do it, too

Anu is a Features author at Android Police. You'll find her writing in-depth pieces about automation tools, productivity apps, and explainers. Before joining AP, she used to write for prominent tech ...
Ars Technica

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins.

On Thursday, a team of researchers led by Microsoft announced that they had discovered, and possibly patched, what they’re terming a biological zero-day—an unrecognized security hole in a system that ...