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Magnus Carlsen: Hans Niemann ‘Has Cheated More—and More Recently—Than He Has Publicly Admitted’
Chess’s World Champion officially accuses Hans Niemann of cheating, but still hasn’t offered any proof. -
Chaotic Genius Plays ‘Trombone Champ’ Using a Fleshlight as a Controller
Programmer Kyle Machulis combined the viral song "Cbat" from a Reddit post with a trombone simulator and a Fleshlight-style toy, and the result is hilarious. -
Ultra-Rare Diamond Reveals Secrets of Oceans of Water Deep Inside the Earth, Scientists Say
More water than all of Earth's oceans is thought to reside deep inside the mantle, and a newly-discovered gem just shed more light on the mystery. -
Watch the First Asteroid Defense Test in History Happen Live in Space Tonight
NASA's DART test will slam a small probe into an asteroid in the first-ever planetary defense test that will seek to knock the rock off course. -
Jeremy Corbyn Plays ‘Doom’ Mod About Killing Margaret Thatcher
The independent MP digitally slaughtered the former PM at a charity event over the weekend. -
Mysterious Sea Drone Surfaces in Crimea
A water-based drone we’ve never seen before just showed up near Sevastopol. Authorities say they destroyed it. -
AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out
In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen. -
Alex Jones Isn’t Testifying in Court, He’s Making Video Clips
Everything Jones has done in his Connecticut case is in the service of making more content. -
AI Art is Powered by ISIS Executions and Non-Consenual Porn
To create the powerful AI art generators, engineers are training programs to soak up as much data as possible without questioning where it’s coming from. -
Signal Is Asking People Around the World to Help Iranians Access the Encrypted App
The encrypted chat app published “easy” detailed instructions to help anyone set up a proxy server to help Iranians.
