Month: July 2025

Stop Using Q-Tips to Clean Your Ears. Seriously.

Keeping your ears clean and getting rid of excess wax buildup is essential for good hygiene and ear health — but there are right ...

LLMs Will Sacrifice Their Goals to Avoid Discomfort: Experimental Evidence — LessWrong

Introduction What if the very training designed to protect us leads to unsafe behaviors? Through a deceptively simple experiment, I aim to show that ...

Aurora’s autonomous trucks are now driving at night. Its next big challenge is rain.

Over the next year, Aurora Innovation CEO Chris Urmson wants to “unlock” the Sunbelt of the United States, a southern route where its self-driving ...

Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is focused on building AI models that can self-improve—meaning they can ...

What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening To, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’

From JD Vance’s dinnertime Bieber to Sam Altman’s Shazaming of incredibly popular hit songs, a website claiming to have published the Spotify listening habits ...

Premier League Summer Series: Stream Man United vs. Bournemouth From Anywhere

See at Peacock Watch the Summer Series in the US from $11 a month Peacock 61% off with 2yr plan (+4 free months) See ...

In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network

“One of the most unusual elements of this case was the attacker’s use of physical access to install a Raspberry Pi device,” Group-IB Senior ...

Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs Trump announced in the ...

Senate confirms CDC director as top FDA official resigns under political pressure

As of yesterday, Susan Monarez is in and Vinay Prasad is out among top federal health officials. In a 51–47 vote along party lines, ...

St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

Hacking attacks—many using ransomware—now hit US cities every few days. They are expensive to mitigate and extremely disruptive. Abilene, Texas, for instance, had 477 ...