Technology
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How A Kenyan Jobseeker And ChatGPT Ended Up Inside Myanmar’s Cyber-Slavery Machine
TLDR: A Kenyan graduate lured by a fake “customer service” job in Thailand ends up trafficked into a Myanmar scam compound, where he’s forced to use free ChatGPT to pose as a rich American crypto investor and defraud U.S. real estate agents—showing how everyday AI now supercharges global fraud from brutal “cyber slavery” hubs along read more
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Orion: The AI People Keep Calling “Conscious” – But What Does That Even Mean?
TLDR: Orion isn’t a waking robot—it’s a powerful illusion that feels human enough to confuse us. OpenAI’s “Orion” is just GPT-4.5, a short-lived, ultra-expensive model great at emotional-sounding responses, and “Orion Nova” is a ChatGPT-based art persona in a Brazilian museum; neither shows any scientific sign of consciousness. Experts stress that current AI has no read more
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The Robot That Outwalked The Hype: Inside AgiBot A2’s 106 km Urban Trek
TLDR: China’s AgiBot A2 just walked 106 km from Suzhou to Shanghai without ever powering down—a Guinness World Record that matters less as sci-fi spectacle and more as a proof that humanoid robots are leaving the lab and entering real work. Unlike flashy backflip demos, this was a three-day endurance test through real streets, traffic, read more
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The inbox trust trap: how “thread hijacking” turns real email conversations into scams
TLDR: Attackers exploit email's design and protocols—threading that confers context-based trust and DKIM/DMARC that verify delivery, not identity—to slip payment changes and "quick favors" into real conversations. 2025 data shows thread hijacking in Vendor Email Compromise (VEC) attacks drives high engagement and big losses, amplified by AI-crafted, link-free emails that sail past filters (Darktrace, Aug read more
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Built on water to walk on water
TLDR: Engineers at the University of Virginia figured out how to build tiny, soft robots directly on the surface of water, so they can walk on it right after being made. The real breakthrough isn't the water-walking demo—it's skipping the fragile transfer step that used to destroy these delicate films. This new "HydroSpread" method means read more
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When the Answer Eats the Internet: How AI Search Summaries Starve the Open Web
TLDR: Google's AI Overviews deliver instant answers at the top of your search results—but this convenience quietly starves the open web. When these AI summaries appear, only 8% of users click through to source websites, compared to 15% without them (Pew Research Center, 2025). Publishers report traffic drops as high as 47% on affected queries read more
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AI “invented” a material labs actually made — so why isn’t the hard part the AI?
TLDR: Microsoft's MatterGen generated a plausible crystal, and the team reports they made it in the lab with a measured property within about 20% of the AI's target—a useful proof of concept, not a finished product. The real work begins after generation: property predictors wobble when they encounter truly novel structures, the AI doesn't hand read more