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  • Victims of Deepfakes Are Fighting Back

    Victims of Deepfakes Are Fighting Back

    Anyone who’s spent a moment observing U.S. political chatter in recent months has probably encountered the following prediction: 2024 will yield the world’s first deepfake election. Rapidly evolving AI video and audio generators powered by large language models have already been used by both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaigns to smear each other…


  • Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

    Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

    For years, Marc Andreessen has had so much money he’s barely known what to do with himself. After striking it rich with the founding of Netscape during the ‘90s, he built himself into a mega-investor in a pantheon of Silicon Valley success stories, becoming a kingmaker in the upper echelons of tech. Now, after years…


  • DARPA’s a Bit Concerned About Tactical-Puking Attacks

    DARPA’s a Bit Concerned About Tactical-Puking Attacks

    In a scene seemingly pulled directly out of Cyberpunk 2077, DARPA, the army’s top research and development arm, is reportedly exploring ways to defend Army soldiers against “cognitive attacks” that could result in them puking under their HoloLens mixed reality headsets. Future wars, it seems, will be fought with guts in more ways than one.…