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Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (646+ words) Published Jan 16, 2026 10:02 AM EST For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The goal of the project, called SETI@home, was to…...
Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
7+ hour, 44+ min ago (620+ words) Published Jan 16, 2026 9:03 AM EST For years now, AI companies, including Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, have insisted that their large language models aren't technically storing copyrighted works in their memory and instead "learn" from their training data like a human…...
After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
1+ day, 29+ min ago (393+ words) Published Jan 15, 2026 4:18 PM EST Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies include Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity,…...
Entire Space Station Down to Skeleton Crew After NASA Evacuation
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (608+ words) Published Jan 15, 2026 1:02 PM EST Last week, NASA announced that it had postponed a January 8 spacewalk after a crew member suffered a medical incident on board the International Space Station. The agency said at the time that the "matter involved a…...
A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1746+ words) Published Jan 15, 2026 12:15 PM EST Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK…...
Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its AI Products
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (342+ words) Published Jan 15, 2026 10:22 AM EST In 2026, Google's AI is embracing that oldest and noblest of internet traditions: sponsored content. Over the weekend, Google released a tiny memo on its Ad & Commerce Blog, announcing a new type of sponsored content marketers can…...
Antarctica's Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (419+ words) Published Jan 14, 2026 1:01 PM EST An enormous iceberg that split off from the Antarctic ice sheet decades ago has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid blue " an alarming indication that it's about to undergo complete disintegration before the much warmer…...
Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (401+ words) Published Jan 14, 2026 5:05 PM EST Back in December, Elon Musk's pet chatbot Grok made headlines for casually distributing the private addresses and phone numbers of everyday people, scraping data from public sources with unsettling ease while other AI models refused. Now,…...
AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow
2+ day, 40+ min ago (516+ words) Published Jan 14, 2026 4:07 PM EST Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to their coding questions " and resulting in a vast online repository of coding knowledge. But as Dev Class reports, the…...
Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of "Stranger Things"
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (394+ words) Published Jan 14, 2026 12:02 PM EST Rumors are running rampant online that Matt and Ross Duffer used OpenAI's ChatGPT when producing the last season of "Stranger Things" after fans zoomed on a still from a behind-the-scenes documentary that appears to show that…...