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Chat GPT reaches 1 billion monthly users faster than any app before it
6+ hour ago (724+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search More than a billion people now open Chat GPT in a typical month, according to estimates from the market-intelligence firm Sensor Tower. No consumer application has ever assembled an audience that large that…...
Geoffrey Hinton says the AI on your phone is already conscious
19+ hour, 5+ min ago (758+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search Geoffrey Hinton was asked on live television whether consciousness had already arrived inside artificial intelligence. He answered without hedging. Yes. Not in some future model, not after the next breakthrough, but now, inside…...
Meta's AI Reset Instagram Passwords for Hackers Who Just Asked
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (361+ words) What sets this apart from an ordinary hack is that nothing was actually broken into. There was no malware, no leaked database of credentials, no phishing page dressed up to look like a login screen. The platform's own support tool…...
Malicious code hid inside Red Hat's npm packages and spread to steal cloud keys
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (737+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search Some of the software building blocks shipped under Red Hat's name spent a stretch of time quietly working against the people who installed them. Hidden inside more than 30 packages in the company's public…...
A third ancestor was hiding in Japanese DNA, breaking the two-origin story
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (470+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search The people of Japan do not descend from two ancestral groups, as the textbooks have it, but from three. A study that read the complete genomes of 3, 256 people across the country found a…...
Under anesthesia, the brain kept decoding speech and predicting the next word
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (452+ words) That cuts against a basic assumption of anesthesia. The drugs are meant to erase awareness, and the working picture has been that they quiet the higher brain along with it. If neurons are still following sentences, the line between an…...
James Webb found methane on a giant planet that is neither scorching nor frozen
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (417+ words) A planet the size of Saturn is sitting at a temperature mild enough to seem almost familiar, around 175 degrees Fahrenheit. The James Webb Space Telescope has now pulled apart the light filtering through its atmosphere and found methane, with fainter…...
Supply chain attacks hide malicious code inside the software you trust
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (222+ words) The industry's answer is taking shape around provenance: cryptographic proof of where a piece of code came from and how it was built, checked automatically before anything is installed. It is the same idea that secured web traffic a generation…...
A Google AI cracked math problems open for 56 years " for a few hundred dollars each
1+ week, 1+ day ago (225+ words) That distinction is the whole story. The system, called Alpha Proof Nexus, writes its arguments in Lean, a formal language whose compiler rejects any step it cannot confirm. A proof either passes or it does not, with no room for…...
Only Fans denies a 340-million-record breach, and so does the hacker selling it
1+ week, 2+ day ago (737+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search A dataset advertised as the personal records of 340 million Only Fans users is being offered for sale on a well-known leak forum, priced at a fraction of a single Bitcoin. The listing promises…...