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How An Angry Facebook Post Led To Saudi Death Penalty For Sri Lankan Man– www.ndtv.com News Source EXCERPT: Anojan Sivarasa, 24-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker is facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia over a Facebook comment in which he allegedly insulted Islam and Prophet Muhammad. His family is now seeking mercy to save his […]
Continue ReadingHer AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried ‘Undue Emotional Weight’– www.404media.co News Source EXCERPT: A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. An appellate court […]
Continue ReadingSomeone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet– www.404media.co News Source EXCERPT: One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally […]
Continue Reading‘Call it Genghis Khan’s final victory’: Why the tomb of the ‘Disturber of the Universe’ remains hidden after 800 years– www.livescience.com News Source EXCERPT: History is rife with lost treasures, from Aztec gold hidden during the Spanish conquest to the Ark of the Covenant, which vanished during the destruction of Jerusalem over 2,500 years ago. […]
Continue ReadingCIA Accused Of Using 23andMe And Ancestry To Hunt For ‘Alien’ DNA Bloodlines– wltreport.com News Source EXCERPT: A newly resurfaced report is making an extraordinary allegation about the CIA, consumer DNA databases and the search for bloodlines that may not be entirely human. The claim is not that intelligence officials are merely studying family trees. […]
Continue ReadingTexas daycare accused of operating toddler ‘fight club’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com News Source EXCERPT: “Their trust was violated when the safe environment they were promised turned into a child fight club.” A daycare in Fort Worth, Texas, is facing a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million after a substitute teacher allegedly encouraged two […]
Continue ReadingScientists Grow Human Brain Tissue Inside Engineered Mice– www.techexplorist.com News Source EXCERPT: For years, neuroscientists have faced a paradox: the human brain is the most complicated organ known, yet also the most difficult to study directly. It is almost impossible to access living tissue, and even the most sophisticated lab-grown models cannot replicate the full […]
Continue ReadingKids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why– www.technologyreview.com News Source EXCERPT: “It’s just totally miraculous,” says Frank. “If you train GPT-2 on 30 million words, you get a nonsense generator; you don’t get a kid.” Exactly how babies pull this off is a mystery. Researchers know a lot about what kids learn and how […]
Continue ReadingUS school suspends launch of humanoid robot teacher due to developer’s ties to sex doll manufacturer – dev.ua News Source
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The growing human male infertility rate could be offset by growing human sperm in a laboratory’s mini-testes. A group of scientists published a report in the peer-reviewed journal “Cell Stem Cell” claiming to show they are close to growing human sperm in a lab. Researchers are hoping to convert stem cells to sperm cells by […]
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