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Dr. John Clauser: The IPCC is one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation

Dr John Clauser, the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, was a speaker at Quantum Korea 2023, an event where he addressed an audience of scientists and government officials, describing the proliferation of the perception of truth and pseu

Starmer issues ultimatum to technology companies to implement client-side scanning; this is the end of online privacy

Starmer has issued a three-month ultimatum for major technology firms to implement client-side scanning; so that all content on all digital devices sold or used in the UK can be scanned using a dystopian combination of age verification and

From the day we are born, our health is determined by our gut

Your immune system and gut microbiome share a symbiotic relationship and your immune function is largely dependent on the state of your gut. More than 99% of your genes come from microbes, not your chromosomes. The best predictor of future

Bot and AI overtake human-generated web traffic for the first time; we are in the age of the “Dead Internet”

According to data from Cloudflare, automated bot and AI agent traffic has surpassed human-generated web traffic for the first time in history, with 57.4 per cent of requests to websites it hosts being automated bot requests, while only 42.6

Mobile phones are addictive; why do we get such a kick out of using our phones?

A 72-hour break from cell phones (aka mobile phones) triggered increased cravings in study participants; brain scans showed heightened activity in reward centres when shown phone images. Cell phones stimulate your brain’s pleasure centre si

AI Is Learning to Fly Planes: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Artificial intelligence is moving from the airport terminal to the cockpit, with aviation companies exploring systems that can automate pilot tasks now, and support fully autonomous flight later. Apparently, AI could make flying safer, more

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Is Claude AI a Child of God? Anthropic Consults Christian Leaders to Help Its “Moral and Spiritual Development”

Anthropic, one of the most influential AI companies, has reportedly been asking Christian leaders how its chatbot Claude should respond to grief, self-harm, morality and even its own shutdown. According to The Washington Post, the company i

Digital IDs are insecure and can be hacked

Professor Norman Fenton recently had his Twitter account taken over by hackers who sent out thousands of spam posts and messages. This serves as a warning for those who adopt digital identities (“IDs”). I predict now that in every country

Nigerian military contracts private company backed by US investors to develop weaponised AI-guided drones

Backed by US investors, a Nigerian company has won a contract with the Nigerian military to supply weaponised drones to defend the country from terrorist attacks. The company had previously stopped supplying the Nigerian military for geopol

Wuhan Institute of Virology is developing edible vaccines and vaccines for mosquitoes to turn them into “flying vaccines”

Researchers are trying to stop bats from spreading disease by inoculating them using vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. These flying vaccinators or flying syringes are being developed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Let’s not lose t

AI expert: We don’t know how AI works

In an interview last year, AI expert Professor Stuart Russell exposed the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how artificial general intelligence (“AGI”) could replace humans by 2030 and why only a nuclear-level AI cata