Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s audacious eyeball-scanning crypto startup, has started the global rollout of its services to help build a reliable solution for “distinguishing humans from AI online,” enable “global democratic processes” and “drastically increase economic opportunity.” The startup, which has raised about $250 million altogether and counts Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Read more…
Twelve Norwegian government ministries have been hit by a cyber attack, the Norwegian government said on Monday, the latest attack to hit the public sector of Europe’s largest gas supplier and NATO’s northernmost member. “We identified a weakness in the platform of one of our suppliers. That weakness has now Read more…
Tuesday North America’s largest lithium mining operation cleared its last legal hurdle in federal appeals court, giving a green light to the mining of 6,000 acres in an 18,000-acre project site near Nevada’s northern border. But meanwhile, in Southern Nevada… Federal land managers have formally withdrawn their authorization of a Read more…
Forbes’ senior writer on cybersecurity writes on the “warrantless monitoring of citizens en masse” in the United States. Here’s how county police armed with a “powerful new AI tool” identified the suspicious driving pattern of a grey Chevy owned by David Zayas: Searching through a database of 1.6 billion license Read more…
Editor/publisher Neil Clarke “said he recently had to temporarily shutter the online submission form for his science fiction and fantasy magazine, Clarkesworld,” reports CNN, “after his team was inundated with a deluge of ‘consistently bad’ AI-generated submissions.” “They’re some of the worst stories we’ve seen, actually,” Clarke said of the Read more…
Sam Bankman-Fried’s younger brother, who was a top lobbyist for failed crypto exchange FTX, considered purchasing the island nation of Nauru in the Pacific to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state, a lawsuit filed in Delaware bankruptcy court shows. Gabe Bankman-Fried was looking at buying Nauru in the “event where Read more…
The government’s green energy plans faced a setback as the Norfolk Boreas offshore windfarm project by Vattenfall was halted due to soaring supply chain costs and rising interest rates. Vattenfall’s chief executive Anna Borg said: “It’s important to understand that our suppliers are being squeezed. They have problems in their Read more…