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Signals Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots are not your friends

“These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So … what’s your In the Weights score?

Founders Funds outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

Messi, Mbappe, and other soccer stars employ these 5 psychological principles

Part of soccer’s beauty lies in its unpredictability. Already in World Cup 2026, we have seen Morocco tie with five-time champion Brazil and Australia overturn the odds by beating Turkey. But few surprises will top a Cabo Verde team ranked 67th at the start of the tournament holding Spain—many pundits’ pick for the title—to a 0-0 draw. But what goes into deciding whether a team wins, draws, or loses? Of course, the quality of the players and coaching staff matters. And recent advances in sports analytics, including real-time player geolocation metrics , have led to the adoption of data-driven …

Why most U.S. workers are checked out and bosses are the last to know

Michael Scott, the hapless regional manager at the center of the American version of “The Office” played by Steve Carell, believed he was the world’s best boss . He even had the mug to prove it. Meanwhile, for most of the show’s 2005-2013 run, his employees endured pointless meetings, cringed through his speeches and quietly counted the hours until they could leave. The joke worked because so many viewers recognized something universal: the gap between how bosses see themselves and how workers actually experience them. That gap is no longer just a sitcom premise. It may be the central reason A…

3 lies were telling ourselves about work

There’s a lot of confusion shaping the modern workplace. Recently, we spoke with a senior leader at a global company who told us, “Everything looks right on paper—our strategy is solid, we have good talent, our growth is scaling, but something still feels off.” That “off” feeling is becoming more common. And it’s not because leaders aren’t trying hard enough. It’s because many of the assumptions guiding those decisions no longer reflect reality. Over 35 years of working within organizations and with a dataset of more than 1.5 million workplace data points, we have watched this same pattern rep…

NASA is testing a rover that can drive faster and lift its wheels to climb obstacles

The space agency shared footage of tests with its Ernest prototype rover.

Epic is working on a ‘ground-up rebuild’ of its launcher that will be 5x faster

Launcher V2 will go through a private beta before a public release.

NASA’s Swift Boost mission will launch later this month to rescue a falling telescope

NASA mission to save a falling space telescope is ready to launch.

Rolands Mini Mixer Puts A Recording Studio In Anyones Pocket

Back in January, Roland announced the GO:Mixer Studio for modern content creators, mobile musicians and podcasters who want to work and record content anywhere.

Inside One Startups Race To Rescue NASAs Sinking Space Telescope

Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft will launch from an airplane in the Marshall Islands to boost NASA’s Swift Observatory, which is dangerously close to burning up.

Solution To The Curious Mystery Of Why AI Keeps Inventing The Same Fake Names Over And Over Again

Curious mystery exists of why popular AIs create fake names of a persistent nature. Turns out its about statistics. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over …

Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on Breath of the Wild and Swiss Army Knives

Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” Despite using “hard mode” production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and …

Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You’re going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you’re going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I’ve seen in years, even …

The Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone is an impressively inventive robot cleaner that mops very well, but struggles to sweep up the competition

The new Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone comes with some great innovations but it’s not the best sucker in town

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The companies that will not respond, will not align with those requirements, will have difficulties in the European market: Zscalers Casper Klynge on the question of European sovereignty, the transatl…

Zscaler’s Casper Klynge on the question of sovereignty, the US, and the future of AI

New Prinz Eugen ransomware prioritizes recent files for encryption

A new ransomware operation named ‘Prinz Eugen’ prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. […]

Microsoft links Mastra AI supply chain attack to North Korean hackers

Microsoft has attributed a recent Mastra AI supply chain attack that compromised more than 140 npm packages to the North Korean hacking group Sapphire Sleet, also known as BlueNoroff. […]

4 Common Problems With Inline-6 Engines

The inline-six engine offers some significant advantages against V-block engines, but these same engineering differences also come with some drawbacks.

5 Things To Stop Doing If You Use A Push Mower On Your Lawn

Are you unknowingly damaging your grass every weekend? Discover the five common landscaping habits that are secretly destroying your front yard.

4 Common Problems With Stihl Chainsaws

Are you constantly fighting with your Stihl Chainsaw? Discover the four most frequent mechanical failures that plague this top-tier gear.