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šØ AI can clone itself now?! Relax. Researchers insist it only happens when instructed by humans. For example, AI could be programmed to clone itself if it senses itās about to shut down. Itās basically a survival instinct. This is getting pretty scary.
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I bet youāve never heard of Mars Hydro. Itās a company headquartered in Communist China that makes Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Their speciality? LED lights and hydroponics equipment.
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler (I had him on the show about other breaches, and heās a smart, standup guy) was digging around and found they had a massive 1.17TB database online for anyone to see. There was no encryption and no password required.
TikTok owner ByteDance built an AI tool that makes realistic videos of people talking and singing from a single photo. OmniHuman can take an image (half-body or full-body) and bring it to life. Snazzy, but scary in the wrong hands. And letās not forget this is Chinese-owned. I wouldnāt hand over any personal pics.
When the world will end, says Sir Isaac Newton. More than 300 years ago, he used math and biblical dates to predict the apocalypse. He believed in the Battle of Armageddon, where good and evil would clash, ushering in the second coming of Christ.
I love this and I know you will, too. An 87-year-old guy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania is having a party tonight. Doug Turner went door to door with handwritten invites. The winter celebration is from ā4 p.m. until the cops arrive.ā His neighbor shared their doorbell cam chat on TikTok. No strangers at the party, but after Doug said he liked the snail mail, letters flooding the PO Box his daughter set up. Heās planning to reply to each one with his special fountain pen.
Number of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sold since October 2023. Looks like these are going to make it. Another 10 million are projected to be sold over the next year and a half.
Earned from the 55-second āCharlie Bit My Fingerā video. You remember it, right? The toddler crying because his baby brother bit his finger? Almost 900 million views later, Charlie is 18 and says the clip helped him pay for law school. A big chunk of that came in 2021, when the video sold as an NFT for over $600,000. Whoa.
Speed of an asteroid hurtling toward Earth. Thereās a 2.3% chance itāll impact in 2032. Thatās the highest chance of any space rock weāve spotted. At 460 feet wide, 2024 YR4 is 500 times more powerful than an atomic bomb. Weāll get a better look at where itās heading in 2028. Iāll set a calendar reminder to update you!
Swatting phone calls made by one teenager. Alan Filion from California charged up to $75 to send police to schools, businesses and even an unnamed former president. In one call, he said he was approaching a school with an AK-47, and the bomb squad showed up. When he targeted homes, Filion said the goal was to āget the cops to drag the victim and their families out of the house, cuff them and search the house for dead bodies.ā Heās so lucky no one died.
You know, the toddler crying because his baby brother bit his finger. Almost 900 million views later, Charlie is 18 and says the clip helped him pay for law school. The 55-second clip has earned his family over $1 million. A big chunk of that came in 2021 when the video sold as an NFT for over $600,000.