Enlarge / One of the medical clinics suspended by the Mexican health authorities on May 19, 2023 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Three more people in… Read More »Death toll rises to 7 in fungal meningitis outbreak; cases at 34, 161 at risk
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Whether on TikTok or Twitter, AI-generated content is already flooding the web.… Read More »Does AI Poison Itself?, Billionaire Cage Fight and Cooking with ChatGPT
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Enlarge / Man hand holding a mobile phone with QR code. Getty Images Phishing merchants have released a deluge of image-based junk emails that embed… Read More »Image-based phishing email torrents are more difficult to detect and more convincing
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen’s usually very active Facebook account was found to have been deleted Friday, a day after the board of trustees of… Read More »Hun Sen’s Facebook page goes dark after feuding with Meta
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The scenes on social media are horrifying. A body dangles from the trunk of a sedan, dripping purple goo. Another is draped over a basketball… Read More »On TikTok, McDonald’s grimace milkshakes inspire horror scenes
The Motorola hotspot. It connects to the satellite network and has Bluetooth. That is it. The device is dead simple, with no screen and just… Read More »Motorola’s “Satellite Link” hotspot allows you to send messages through space
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared in federal court on Wednesday to pledge his support for open platforms and consumer choice. “If it were up to… Read More »Chiefs of Microsoft and Activision testify that merger will benefit consumers
Can you tell which of these seemingly identical bits of Steam iconography were generated using AI (trick question, it’s none of them). Aurich Lawson Valve… Read More »Steam mods reportedly block games that use AI-generated artwork
When Elon Musk announced last month that he had hired Linda Yaccarino as CEO of Twitter, he said said he was “excited” to bring on… Read More »Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino relaxes the hot seat
Enlarge / The East Coast has had a chance to experience something that has become disturbingly familiar to the West. After rejoining the Paris Agreement… Read More »The American public wants climate change addressed, but dislikes the options
A series of eerie videos shows what generative AI and advertising have in common: they chew on the cultural subconscious and spit it back at… Read More »AI and TV advertising are made for each other
Enlarge / Clinical specimen bags labeled with Sanford Health. A medical waste management company in Fargo, North Dakota, has filed a damning lawsuit against the… Read More »Medical waste company sues health system over hidden human torso
