People Are Overconfident They Can Spot AI-Generated Faces
AI-generated faces are now so realistic that even people with exceptional face-recognition skills struggle to tell them apart from real…
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What Is the Famous Photo of a Single Atom and How Was It Taken?
A photograph of a single atom is really a long-exposure image of light emitted by that atom while it is…
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Why the Milky Way Smells Like Raspberries and Rum
Space does not literally taste or smell like raspberries and rum to human noses, but astronomers have found a molecule…
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What Is Gardening in Cryptography and How Does It Work?
In cryptography, gardening is the practice of deliberately causing an opponent to send messages that contain a specific, known piece…
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Batesian Mimicry Hawk Moth Caterpillar Works Best When Large
Hawk moth caterpillars use Batesian mimicry by briefly turning themselves into a fake snake display: they inflate the front of…
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What Is Recombinant Human Insulin
Recombinant human insulin is insulin made by inserting the human insulin gene into microorganisms such as E. coli or yeast,…
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Silicon Valley Developers and the Pressure to Ship Harm
A number that should make you pause: 74% of Silicon Valley developers in the preprint A New Digital Divide? Coder…
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Bots Surpassed Humans in 2024: The 51% Traffic Trap
A weird thing about the claim that bots surpassed humans is that most people hear it as a story about…
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Ralph Wiggum Technique Turns Claude Code Into a Test Loop
A lot of people encountering the Ralph Wiggum technique ask the wrong question. They want to know whether it’s a…
