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From the Archives: What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds? Jun 07, 2024

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Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.

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Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid Jun 07, 2024

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Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.

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From the Archives: A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis Jun 06, 2024

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We're bringing an extra episode from our show Science, Spoken.

Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true.

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An American Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs Jun 06, 2024

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Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure.

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AI Is Your Coworker Now. Can You Trust It? Jun 05, 2024

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Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot are becoming part of everyday business life. But they come with privacy and security considerations you should know about.

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The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning Jun 04, 2024

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Data breaches at Ticketmaster and financial services company Santander have been linked to attacks against cloud provider Snowflake. Researchers fear more breaches will soon be uncovered.

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Google's AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That's How AI Works Jun 03, 2024

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Google rushed out fixes after its AI search feature made errors that went viral. Fundamental limitations of generative AI mean that it will still screw up sometimes.

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What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement? Jun 02, 2024

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We're bringing an extra episode from our show Business, Spoken.

Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic.

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DART Showed How to Smash an Asteroid. So Where Did the Space Shrapnel Go? May 31, 2024

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2022’s NASA mission proved it was possible to knock an incoming near-Earth object off course. But that creates debris—which might also be a threat.

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'Largest Botnet Ever’ Tied to Billions in Stolen Covid-19 Relief Funds May 31, 2024

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The US says a Chinese national operated the “911 S5” botnet, which included computers worldwide and was used to file hundreds of thousands of fraudulent Covid claims and distribute CSAM, among other crimes.

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