HGNC Renamed 27 Human Genes to Stop Excel Date Conversions
Twenty-seven human genes were renamed in 2019 because Excel kept auto-converting symbols such as MARCH1 and SEPT2 into dates, corrupting…
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Humans Have Pumped About 1.5 Trillion Barrels of Oil
Humanity has extracted roughly 1.1 to 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, depending on whether the source counts crude oil alone…
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Stuxnet Explains How Malware Turns Software Into Machine Damage
Most Stuxnet coverage teaches the wrong lesson. It gets filed as the origin story of cyber war, dramatic, state-backed, historically…
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Medical LLMs Fell for Prompt Injection in 94.4% of Clinical Tests
Medical LLMs are highly vulnerable to prompt injection, with a controlled study finding 94.4% attack success across 216 patient-LLM dialogues…
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Builder.AI Mixed AI Software With Human Engineering, Then Collapsed Amid Fraud Allegations
Builder.ai did not simply “fake AI with 700 engineers in India”; it appears to have had both a real software…
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Builder.ai Exposed Services Economics Sold as Software
A weird detail in the Builder.ai story is that two opposite headlines both feel true at first glance. One says…
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AI Dependence Becomes the Default Before Thinking Starts
A $20-a-month product is suddenly free during finals, premium models are getting pushed across campuses, and AI dependence is being…
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AI Wrapper Startups Are Renting a Feature Gap
More than 4,000 startups applied to Google and Accel’s Atoms program in March 2026. TechCrunch reported that around 70% of…
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Shanidar 1 Shows Injured Neanderthals Could Survive With Group Support
Shanidar 1 is best understood as evidence that a badly injured Neanderthal survived for years with group support, not as…
