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Crypto Scams on X (formerly Twitter) Elon Musk’s Twitter targeted: Beware of the $25 Million Crypto Scam 10 months after his rule, crypto scams on X (formerly Twitter) are still thriving. One of the most popular was a fake “GBTC” token giveaway. The post pretended to be from Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, the world’s largest Bitcoin…

Solana (BTCBSC) Ethereum may be struggling to hold on to its leadership position, but other cryptocurrencies such as Solana are gaining popularity among investors. A new altcoin called Bitcoin on BSC has also gained popularity due to its fast processing and low fees, making it a more appealing alternative to Ethereum. Many investors wonder whether…

Marmalade: How to Train a Robot Marmalade, a woman in her forties, is training an artificial intelligence model owned by a Finnish startup called Metroc. She works in a Finnish prison to help it find new building projects. Using prisoners to train AI creates uneasy parallels with the kind of low-paid and sometimes exploitive labor…

The Big Interview by Sundar Pichai The Big Interview Read more deep, weird, smart conversations with the most important people in our world. Sundar Pichai is struggling to write a letter to Alphabet’s 180,000 employees celebrating 25 years of Google. The stock market value is around $1.7 trillion, its cloud-computing operation has made its first…

ChatGPT, Bard, Midjourney The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department have banned their employees from using ChatGPT for the rest of the year out of concern for cybersecurity. The cities of San Jose, California and Seattle, Utah and the state of Washington, both warn staff that any information entered into a generative…

Avatar Legs for Quest Version 57 With the latest update to its Quest headsets, Meta is adding more customization options to its avatar. Its avatars seem like they’re about to get a lot better. From a screenshot and a blog post, we can see that the update will add a lot of much-needed improvements to…

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay A group of authors is suing OpenAI over claims that the company illegally used their works to train its AI ChatGPT chatbot. According to Reuters, the lawsuit seeks class-action status and alleges that OpenAI benefits and profits from the unauthorized and illegal use of their copyrighted works. The…

The Baader-Meinhof Effect In this chapter, Dr. Barlow explores the frequency illusion, also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, and other similar illusions. The term frequency illusion comes from a term coined by American writer Terry Mullen . In 1994, he wrote a letter to a Minnesotan newspaper explaining that he had been talking about the…

Nasty Nasty Nasty Nasty Have you ever sprayed perfume on yourself, only to find that you can’t smell yourself? Or your family member comments on how strong the scent is, but you can’t even get a whiff of it? What is this nose blindness, and why can’t we smell ourselves as other people can? According…

Necrophilia: The Crow Funeral According to folklore, crows have rituals when a bird dies. People think of these rituals as being a murder of crows , but the truth is that crows hold their own kind of funerals. They gather around other crows that have died, which is why people think of them as crows-murdering…