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New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 04:04:59

A new poll by the Pew Research Center has found that Americans are getting extremely fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives. A whopping 53 percent of just over 5,000 US adults polled in June think that AI will "worsen people’s ability to think creatively." Fifty percent say AI will deteriorate our ability to form meaningful relationships, while only five percent believe the reverse. While 29 percent of respondents said they believe AI will make people better problem-solvers,

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Wildfire smoke is an insidious and growing public health threat

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-09-20 12:00:45

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Wildfire smoke is the air quality nightmare of our generation, eating away at previous gains made by cracking down on industrial emissions and tailpipe pollution. Constant exposure to smoke is becoming a chronic threat even in places that historically haven’t had many wildfire

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James Cameron on AI: it’s ‘just as creative’ as people, but with no ‘unique lived experience’

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-09-20 12:30:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In December, Meta announced a multiyear partnership with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision to bring 3D entertainment to Meta’s Quest headsets. This week, Cameron joined Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on stage during the company’s Meta Connect conference to share a first result of that partnership: Quest owners are able to watch an exclusive preview clip for Cameron’s upcoming Avatar 3 movie via the headset’s new H

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Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’ Movie Adds an Intriguing New Star

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-20 16:00:00

Dave Bautista and Vincent D’Onofrio want in on the DCU. Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc drops a hot new poster. Plus, go behind the scenes on the return of Netflix’s One Piece in a new featurette. Spoilers get! Resident Evil Deadline reports Paul Walter Hauser has joined the cast of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil in a currently undisclosed role (start your Barry Burton speculation now). The DCU Dave Bautista confirmed he’s still eager to join James Gunn’s DCU in a new interview with Screen Ra

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You Had No Taste Before AI

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Sanabria 2025-09-21 00:00:44

There’s been an influx of people telling others to develop taste to use AI. Designers. Marketers. Developers. All of them touting the same message. It’s ironic, though. These are the same people who never questioned why their designs all look identical, never iterated beyond the first draft, and never asked if their work actually solved the problem at hand. They’re not alone. The loudest voices preaching about taste and AI are often the ones who never demonstrated taste before AI. What is Tast

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Can Your GrimDark Beat the Germans (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Illuminati Ganga Agent 2025-09-17 15:30:09

Press enter or click to view image in full size When Germans want to make a show that is ‘Dark’ they are really good at picking names. This is an article with a title written in the form of a question but ending with an exclamation point because the obvious answer is of course No, it fucking can’t. Your GrimDark cannot beat the Germans! First of all the Germans are unbeatable on this front because their national park is called the Black Forest and their children’s literature is all about littl

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Scientists Intrigued by Cream Designed to Make Old Scars Disappear

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 15:08:26

Image by Getty / Futurism Treatments People spend a bundle on hiding or removing old scars, from heavy makeup to laser skin-resurfacing treatments that cost thousands of dollars. They can use topical creams, too, but many products available over the counter don't do anything to lessen bumpy scars like keloids. Intriguingly, though, a team of Australian scientists has found early evidence that a new skin cream could possibly heal those raised scars. In a new paper published in the journal Scie

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American Sweatshop depicts content moderation as the hell it is

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-09-22 11:00:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. In American Sweatshop, German director Uta Briesewitz’s new psychological drama, every character working at a content moderation firm understands that ingesting horrific images is part of the job. They have all seen the disturbing footage uploaded to social media, and they know how important it is that someone is always there to deter

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Slow social media

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 06:57:58

Slow social media 16 Sep, 2025 People often assume that I hate social media. And they'd be forgiven for believing that, since I am overtly critical of current social media platforms and the effects they have on individuals and society; and deleted all of my social media accounts back in 2019. However, the underlying concept of social media is something I resonate with: Stay connected with the people you care about. It's just that the current form of social media is bastardised, and not socia

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Inside Trumpworld’s Reality Distortion Field

wired.com Jake Lahut 2025-09-22 20:04:52

Before a suspect was even in custody, Trumpworld was on a wartime footing. Charlie Kirk had been fatally shot. Graphic video of the assassination hit terminal velocity online. Several sources of mine were close friends of Kirk, and when I spoke to them last week, it was clear this incident had changed the level of aggression with which they were willing to pursue a crackdown on their boss’s perceived enemies. “I think we want to confront violent left wing rhetoric. We want PEACE, and unity,” o

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OpenAI releases first-of-kind study revealing how people are using ChatGPT for everyday tasks

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Shreya Ghosal 2025-09-23 15:56:34

Illustration of the ChatGPT App on the iOS App Store displayed on a phone screen. Despite rapid adoption of large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, few comprehensive studies have delved into exactly how the technology is being used in everyday life — that is, until now. On Tuesday, researchers, including those from OpenAI, released a first-of-its-kind study that examines who was using ChatGPT and for what purposes based on internal messages sent to ChatGPT on consumer plans. Amongst the

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Should we drain the Everglades?

news.ycombinator.com Rabbit Cavern 2025-09-23 06:33:35

Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida, has an average depth of only nine feet (2.7 meters). Oh, and it has 30,000 alligators, but try not to think about that. Dough4872 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons I can’t explain why this bothers me so much, but something about it being so big and yet so shallow just creeps me out. I find it unsettling, okay? Mentally, it makes me feel like noodles, if that makes sense. It’s the eighth-largest (freshwater) lake in the country but I’ve swam i

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Slow Social Media

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 17:57:58

Slow social media 16 Sep, 2025 People often assume that I hate social media. And they'd be forgiven for believing that, since I am overtly critical of current social media platforms and the effects they have on individuals and society; and deleted all of my social media accounts back in 2019. However, the underlying concept of social media is something I resonate with: Stay connected with the people you care about. It's just that the current form of social media is bastardised, and not socia

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Should We Drain the Everglades?

news.ycombinator.com Rabbit Cavern 2025-09-24 07:33:35

Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida, has an average depth of only nine feet (2.7 meters). Oh, and it has 30,000 alligators, but try not to think about that. Dough4872 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons I can’t explain why this bothers me so much, but something about it being so big and yet so shallow just creeps me out. I find it unsettling, okay? Mentally, it makes me feel like noodles, if that makes sense. It’s the eighth-largest (freshwater) lake in the country but I’ve swam i

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The Download: regulators are coming for AI companions, and meet our Innovator of 2025

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-09-24 05:10:00

As long as there has been AI, there have been people sounding alarms about what it might do to us: rogue superintelligence, mass unemployment, or environmental ruin. But another threat entirely—that of kids forming unhealthy bonds with AI—is pulling AI safety out of the academic fringe and into regulators’ crosshairs. This has been bubbling for a while. Two high-profile lawsuits filed in the last year, against Character.AI and OpenAI, allege that their models contributed to the suicides of two

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Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 16:22:22

It was the turn of the millenium when I got my first computer fresh at university. Windows seemed uninteresting, it was impossible to work out how it worked or write programs for it. SuSE Linux 6.2 was much more interesting to try and opened a world of understanding how computers worked and wanting to code on them. These were the days of the .com boom and I went to big expos in London where they showered you with freebies and IBM competed with SuSE and Red Hat for the biggest stall. IBM said tha

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Google rolls out new Windows desktop app with Spotlight-like search tool

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-24 16:24:22

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new experimental app for Windows that’s designed to help people find what they need faster. The app will allow people to use an Alt + Space shortcut to instantly search for information from their computer files, installed apps, Google Drive files, and the web. The search bar works similar to Mac’s Spotlight search, which lets users quickly find anything on their device and on the web. The new app is available via Search Labs, Google’s experimen

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Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-26 01:15:32

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that tens of millions of people are confessing secrets to AI chatbots trained on religious texts, with apps like Bible Chat reaching over 30 million downloads and Catholic app Hallow briefly topping Netflix, Instagram, and TikTok in Apple's App Store. In China, people are using DeepSeek to try to decode their fortunes. In her report, Lauren Jackson examined "faith tech" apps that cost users up to $70 annually, with some platforms claiming to channel divine

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Some People Are Definitely Losing Their Jobs Because of AI (the Ones Building it)

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-26 12:00:55

AI might be coming for our jobs, but capitalist pressures appear to be coming for the people responsible for developing AI. Wired reported over 200 people working on Google’s AI products, including its chatbot Gemini and the AI Overviews it displays in search results, were recently laid off—joining the ranks of unfortunate former employees of xAI and Meta, who have also been victims of “restructuring” as companies that poured billions of dollars into AI development are trying to figure out how t

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WIRED Roundup: How Charlie Kirk Changed Conservative Media

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-09-26 16:26:01

Zoë Schiffer: So where does that leave traditional right-wing media, like Fox News, for example? Is this a replacement of that or is it working in tandem? Jake Lahut: I think it's more in tandem. Fox's programming was dominated by Kirk's assassination last night. I think that for a lot of the mainstay Fox personalities, people like Charlie Kirk, and I guess in the Turning Point USA broader cinematic universe, these younger figures are really important, actually, for I think a lot of the more es

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Being Underweight Might Be Deadlier Than Being Overweight

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-27 12:20:38

If asked whether one would prefer to be too skinny or fat, chances are most people would reply that they’d rather be too skinny. Distorted standards of beauty and their propagation on social media are certainly to blame for this, in addition to the knowledge that being overweight typically brings along a host of health risks. A new study, however, suggests that being too thin can actually be deadlier. Researchers used health data to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and

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Why is Sam Altman losing sleep? OpenAI CEO addresses controversies in sweeping interview

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-09-28 07:40:31

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, testify during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled "Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation," in Hart building on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images In a sweeping interview last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed a plethora of moral and ethical questions regarding his company and the popular ChatGPT AI model.

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My thoughts on renting versus buying

news.ycombinator.com Miles Barr 2025-09-28 04:36:14

I’ve read numerous articles about renting versus buying and most dive into financial projections while completely missing the bigger picture. In my view, behavioral and emotional factors have a far larger impact on the financial outcomes of renting versus buying than the math. The math can always be made to “work” if you’re willing to adjust what or where you rent or buy. But the real differences aren’t captured in spreadsheets. They come from how people actually make decisions, and how those d

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High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Quinn Jacobson 2025-09-28 02:29:35

Living at high altitude reduces risk of dying from heart disease: Low oxygen may spur genes to create blood vessels. Summary: Researchers have found that people living at higher altitudes have a lower chance of dying from heart disease and live longer. Jeanne and I live at 8,400 feet (2.560 meters). We were talking about visitors coming (for workshops, friends, etc.) and if you are coming from a low elevation what you need to be aware of. There is a thing called Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS). I

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Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 22:47:38

Japan sets record of nearly 100,000 people aged over 100 1 day ago Share Save Jessica Rawnsley and Stephanie Hogarty Population correspondent Share Save Getty Images People in Japan tend to have healthier diets, lower prevalence of common diseases, and a culture of group exercise The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced. Setting a new record for the 55th year in a row, the number of centenarians in Japan was 99,

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Elon Musk Appears to Now Be Firing the People Behind Grok

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-27 23:41:30

After vowing to create a "maximum truth-seeking" AI, Elon Musk appears to now be sacking the people who built it for him. Slack screenshots leaked to Business Insider show that the accounts of at least nine high-level employees with the data annotation team at xAI, Musk's OpenAI competitor, were deactivated over the weekend, in what seems like a major culling at the lab that built the social network's infamous chatbot, Grok. Those people, who weren't named by BI, previously worked on the human

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North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 16:09:18

North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds 12 hours ago Share Save Jean Mackenzie Seoul correspondent Share Save KCNA via EPA Life under Kim Jong Un's rule has become tougher and people are more afraid, the report claims The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found. The dictatorship, which remains largely cut off from the w

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Instagram fixed an issue that caused posting multiple Stories to tank your reach

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 00:47:14

Instagram fixed a bug that caused the reach of some users' Stories to shrink when they posted more than one Story a day, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared on Friday. The fix addresses a common complaint shared by creators in the last year that they were disincentivized to use Stories because of how regularly using the feature impacted the number of people who actually saw their posts. "People were complaining about getting less reach with their Stories if they posted lots of Stories in the sam

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The effects of algorithms on the public discourse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 08:39:47

We traded blogs for black boxes, now we're paying for it 09/09/2025 Come listen to the "old man yelling at clouds" in me for a bit. tl;dr: The internet is changing for the worse (or getting 'enshittified'). In this post, I write about the effects of algorithms on the public discourse to illustrate a greater point on the enshittification of the internet. Then, I offer my personal notes and curated resources to guide you on your personal internet deshittification journey. I miss the old intern

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Uber sued by DOJ for alleged discrimination against disabled riders

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-01 08:36:47

A man holds up a smartphone with the Uber app visible on screen, as taxis queue in the background on June 4, 2019. The Department of Justice sued Uber on Thursday, alleging the ride-hailing giant discriminated against riders with disabilities, according to a filing. "Despite the importance of its services to people with disabilities, Uber denies people with disabilities full and equal enjoyment of its services in several critical ways," the complaint, filed in a federal court in San Francisco,

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