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Elon Musk said Wednesday that he was “not aware of any images of naked minors generated by Grok,” hours before California’s attorney general launched an investigation into xAI’s chatbot for “spreading non-consensual sexually explicit content.” Musk’s denial comes amid mounting pressure from governments around the world, from the UK and Europe to Malaysia and Indonesia, after X users began asking Grok to transform photos of real women and even children into sexualized images without their consent. Copyleaks, an AI detection and content governance platform, estimated that approximately one image is posted every minute on X. Another sample collected from January…

Neel Somani, a software engineer, former quantitative researcher, and startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new models last weekend when he made an unexpected discovery. After pasting the problem into ChatGPT and letting it think for 15 minutes, I came back with a complete solution. He evaluated the proof and formalized it using a tool called Harmonic, and everything went well. “I was interested in establishing a baseline for when LLMs can effectively solve unsolved math problems compared to when they are struggling,” Somani said. What surprised me was that Frontier started to move forward little by…

Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs team announced that it had been null-routing traffic to more than 550 command and control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart Kimwolf have recently emerged as one of the largest botnets, capable of forcing enslaved devices to participate in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and relaying malicious traffic for residential proxy services. Details about Kimwolf were revealed last month when QiAnXin XLab published a thorough analysis of the malware. The malware turns compromised devices (mostly unauthorized Android TV streaming devices) into residential proxies by…

restart Digg, an early Internet online community that was once a rival to Redditmoving forward. The company is now back under the ownership of original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and will begin an open beta for the public on Wednesday. Similar to Reddit, the new Digg offers a website and mobile app where you can browse a feed featuring posts from your chosen community and join other communities that match your interests. There you can post, comment, and upvote (or “dig”) content on the site. Digg was originally a Web 2.0-era news aggregation site that was…

Music distribution platform Bandcamp announced in a post on Reddit on Tuesday that it would ban AI-generated music and audio. “We want musicians to keep making music, and we want fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp is made by humans,” the company said in a statement. Bandcamp’s new guidelines state that music and audio generated “wholly or in large part by AI” is not allowed, and that using AI tools to imitate other artists or styles is not allowed. I mean, if Drake had released “Taylor Made Freestyle” on Bandcamp, he would have been in…

Scientists may have finally determined the nature of some of the most mysterious objects in the night sky.In a new study, researchers investigated what the “little red dots” are. These mysterious objects from the early Universe have characteristics of both galaxies and supermassive black holes, but they don’t quite fit either description.A new study has found that these mysterious dots may be, after all, young supermassive black holes trapped in dense clouds of gas that obscure any obvious signs of their true nature. The researchers published their findings in the academic journal Nature on Wednesday (January 14). you may like…

Scientists analyzed the genome of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros found in the stomach of an ancient wolf pup. The results give experts insight into the rapid extinction of the woolly rhinoceros, likely due to climate change.Tissue from the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was found inside the mummified remains of a wolf cub, which was first discovered in Siberian permafrost in 2011. A subsequent autopsy of the puppy revealed that it had last eaten. It turns out it was eating one of the last woolly rhinos on Earth. But now scientists have discovered a way to sequence an animal’s complete genome…

Stunned astronomers discovered a zombie star relatively close to Earth. The zombie star inexplicably emits a persistent rainbow-like shockwave as it speeds through the Milky Way. The remains of this undead star are currently consuming its companion star, leaving researchers puzzled.All the stars in the Milky Way are constantly rotating around a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy. Most of these stars, including the Sun, experience bow shocks that push material around the star, similar to the waves that occur around the bow of a ship as it moves through water. These bow shocks…

Many of the world’s largest deltas, including the Nile, Amazon and Ganges rivers, are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising, a new study has found.This means that land subsidence is becoming a major cause of land loss, coastal flooding and salt water intrusion in deltas, exceeding the effects of sea level rise due to climate change. The researchers also found that groundwater extraction is the biggest cause of subsidence in deltas around the world, with urban expansion and reduced river sediment loads contributing to the overall subsidence trend.Delta regions face a “double burden” of rising sea levels and…

Over the past year, security researchers have been urging the global shipping industry to strengthen its cyber defenses after a spate of cargo thefts by hackers. Researchers say they witnessed an elaborate hack that targeted a logistics company to hijack a large number of customers’ products and redirect them into the hands of criminals, marking an alarming collusion between hackers and real-life organized crime groups. There’s a stolen e-cig delivery truck here, and there’s a suspected lobster robbery. One of the lesser-known but important US maritime technology companies has spent the past few months patching its systems after a number…