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Researchers have warned that swarms of artificial intelligence (AI) agents could soon infiltrate social media platforms en masse, spreading false stories, harassing users, and undermining democracy.These “AI swarms” form part of a new frontier in information warfare, capable of mimicking human behavior and evading detection while creating the illusion of genuine online movement, according to a January 22 commentary published in the journal Science.Imagine discovering that the opinions of your favorite online community have hardened around a previously controversial position. Human instinct often follows the “wisdom” of the herd. But in this case, the swarm could be secretly controlled by…
A huge cloud of vaporized metal could be hiding a secret planet or a second alien sun in a nearby star system, new research has revealed.This mysterious cloud is up to 15,000 times wider than our planet, and during the nearly nine months this ghostly object oozed between it and Earth, its host star almost completely disappeared from telescope observations.Astronomers first noticed the existence of this mysterious cloud in September 2024, when they detected a surprising dimming phenomenon around the Sun-like main-sequence star J0705+0612 (also known as ASASSN-24fw), about 3,000 light-years from Earth. The star’s brightness suddenly dropped by a…
Generative AI apps that can create photos, videos, songs, and more are becoming increasingly popular. But with the release of Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro suite, which became generally available on Wednesday, the tech giant has approached adding AI as a tool to aid creators in their process, not to replace it. Instead, Apple is offering a vision that suggests its future productivity suite will focus on the needs of filmmakers, musicians, artists, or other creators caught up in some creative industry, and use AI to help them become more efficient. Bringing AI into the creative world can be difficult,…
According to TechCrunch, the San Francisco Police Department is investigating an accident in which a Zoox self-driving car crashed into the driver’s side door of a parked car. According to the department, officers responded to the crash near the intersection of 15th Avenue and Mission Street on January 17 at around 2 p.m. local time. According to Mission Local, which first reported the incident, the Zoox robot taxi was traveling down 15th Avenue when a street ambassador named Jamel Darden opened the driver’s side door of a 1977 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Darden reportedly suffered a severe hand injury during the…
NASA plans to simulate a test launch of its Artemis II giant moon rocket as early as Saturday (January 31), and engineers say they are on track or ahead of schedule.The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February 6, is intended to send humans around the moon in preparation for the next Artemis III mission, which will land astronauts on the moon’s surface. This will be the first time in more than 50 years that NASA has sent humans back to the moon, and the first time a woman will be on the crew.The Artemis mission aims…
If the last San Francisco Allbirds store closed its doors and no one was around to hear it close, did it make a sound? Allbirds, the shoe brand that was once an icon of mid-2010s San Francisco tech, will close nearly all of its physical stores by the end of February. Only two outlet stores in the U.S. and two full-price stores in London remain. “This is an important step for Allbirds as we aim for profitable growth based on our turnaround strategy,” Allbirds CEO Joe Bernacchio said in a statement. “We have opportunistically downsized our brick-and-mortar portfolio over the…
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 28, 2026Critical Infrastructure/Threat Intelligence A “coordinated” cyber attack targeting multiple sites across Poland’s electricity grid is believed with medium confidence to be the work of a Russian state-backed hacking group known as ELECTRUM. Operational technology (OT) cybersecurity firm Dragos said in a new intelligence brief released Tuesday that the late December 2025 activity was the first major cyber attack targeting distributed energy resources (DER). “This attack affected the communication and control systems of combined heat and power (CHP) facilities, as well as the systems that manage the transmission of electricity from wind and solar power plants to renewable…
One way to track the speed of the AI boom is by tracking the hardware supply chain. Nvidia is a prime example. As AI companies build out data centers, they’re snapping up billions of dollars in GPUs every month, turning Nvidia into the most valuable company on the planet. But Nvidia also has suppliers, and considering them can help you take a longer-term view of the market. That’s why we’re looking at ASML, a Dutch photolithography company that’s become an important cornerstone of the semiconductor industry. ASML is the sole supplier of the EUV equipment needed to manufacture cutting-edge chips,…
With the nuclear gold rush in full swing, fueled by AI companies’ desperate need for electricity, pick and shovel sellers are also starting to cash in. By the end of 2025, nuclear startups have raised $1.1 billion, all for small modular reactors. This deal flow is now expanding to key suppliers of the nuclear industry. And Standard Nuclear, which manufactures the nuclear fuel that supplies these reactors, is one of them. The company announced it has raised $140 million in a Series A round led by Decisive Point with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Chevron Technology Ventures, Crucible Capital, Fundomo, StepStone…
In a segment on NBC News Monday night, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern about “some of the things we’ve seen over the last few days,” citing violence by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. In both his NBC and X posts, Amodei focused on the importance of defending democracy at home, specifically calling out “the horrors we are seeing in Minnesota.” “We need to defend our democratic values at home,” he said on NBC, saying he believes in arming democracies to protect them from dictatorships. He added that Anthropic does not have a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).…