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New Christian Phone Service Blocks Porn, Satanism, LGBTQ, Info Health for a 'Jesus-Centric' Filtering

Radiant Mobile, a Christian network, uses network-level filters to block content like pornography and LGBTQ topics, aiming to create a 'Jesus-centric' environment. It plans expansion beyond the US.

International Business Times UK

New 'Jesus-Centric' Phone Plan Blocks Porn, LGBTQ Content, and TikTok at the Network Level for $30

Radiant Mobile launched as the first US cell plan to permanently block pornography at the network level. A default filter also blocks LGBTQ content, with one man deciding what gets banned.

International Business Times UK

Radiant Mobile Launches Christian 5G Network With Permanent Carrier-Level Blocks on Pornography and Gender Content

Radiant Mobile, a Christian-focused network, launches in the US with unremovable pornography filters, sparking debate on internet censorship and content categorization.

International Business Times UK

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Sam Altman Among 25 People on Waitlist for 'Fatal' Brain Preservation That Will Keep Them Digitally Immortal

Sam Altman is among those linked to a startup exploring brain preservation that could one day enable digital consciousness, a process described as '100 percent fatal.'

International Business Times UK

Fact check: Are Pokémon GO players unwittingly helping to train AI?

The hit mobile game Pokémon GO has come under scrutiny following claims that images captured within the app may have been used to train AI systems developed by its creator, without players' consent. However, these images were not collected entirely without users’ awareness.

Euronews

NVIDIA Just Announced NemoClaw to Make OpenClaw Safer as ‘Lobster’ AI Agent Craze Raises Security Alarms

NVIDIA's new security stack addresses privacy concerns for the "fastest-growing open source project in history" as Chinese users spawn a cottage industry around AI assistant installation.

Barchart

Bill Gates-Backed Quidnet Energy Just Stored Power Underground for Six Months—Aiming to Turn Earth Into a Giant Battery

Quidnet Energy, backed by Breakthrough Energy Ventures led by Bill Gates, recently demonstrated long-duration energy storage by storing electricity underground under pressure for six consecutive months with virtually no self-discharge.

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China has spent billions of dollars building far too many data centers for AI and compute - could it lead to a huge market crash?

China built hundreds of AI data centers, but supply now far exceeds demand, and DeepSeek is one of the reasons why.

TechRadar

China's AI data center boom goes bust: Rush leaves billions of dollars in idle infrastructure

China's rush to build AI data centers in 2023–2024 has collapsed into underused infrastructure, falling profits, and outdated facilities.

Tom’s Hardware

China's Manus AI 'agent' could be our 1st glimpse at artificial general intelligence

Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has unveiled what it claims is the first general AI agent capable of acting autonomously.

LiveScience

AI can now clone your personality in only two hours – and that's a dream for deepfake scammers

A new study shows that AI can now convincingly clone a person's personality in only two hours.

TechRadar

This Company Is Deepfaking Your Whole Body to Make Super Realistic AI Avatars

Synthesia showed off its 2.0 model that will soon feature a way to generate full-body AI avatars that can make realistic gestures.

Inverse

The AI revolution "won't require a new piece of hardware," claims OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — but if it does, he says "you'll be happy to have a new device"

While visiting Cambridge for a series of events hosted by Harvard and the venture capital firm Xfund, OpenAI CEO Altman told MIT Technology Review that users might not need new devices to prepare for a future with AI.

Windows Central

'Planet killer' asteroids pose no threat to Earth for at least 1,000 years — but smaller rocks could still be a problem

The risk of a kilometer-scale asteroid hitting Earth in the next millennium is really low. Phew.

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'Godfather of AI' leaves Google, warns of tech's dangers

Geoffrey Hinton, the man widely considered as the “godfather” of artificial intelligence, has left Google — with a message sharing his concerns about potential dangers stemming from the same technology he helped build

Fortune

The tech mogul who gave the world ChatGPT is investing $180 million into a life extension startup

At startup incubator Y Combinator, Sam Altman got interested in aging research after an experiment with old and young mice, MIT Tech Review reported.

InsideEVs

Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Offers Insight On Battery Recycling

In a recent interview for MIT Technology Review, JB offers some new insights into the massive challenge of building a circular economy, and why we can’t wait.

Fortune

A new use case for the older VR user: Dealing with death

Two virtual groups hosted by EvolVR, Death Q&A and Saying Goodbye, have helped attract older people to the metaverse.

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Evening Standard

Image of a woman on the toilet taken by a robot vacuum cleaner shared on Facebook

A total of 15 screenshots from sensitive video recordings captured by robot cleaners used by testers appeared on private Facebook and Discord groups

Kiplinger

Heat Pumps vs Solar Panels: Which Saves You More on Energy Bills?

Debating heat pumps vs solar panels? Whichever one you choose, it just got easier to save on energy bills.

Pedestrian.tv

Twitter Might’ve Lost 1M Users Since Musk Took Over Surely It’s A Sign To Re-Embrace Tumblr

Research estimates more than a million accounts have been suspended or deactivated.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Arabia Advances 10 Places in Green Future Index 2022

Environmental initiatives and programs, including the Green Saudi Arabia and the Green Middle East initiatives, as well as the carbon circular economy and energy transformations, have contributed to advancing Saudi Arabia’s ranking in the Green Future Index for 2022. Issued by the MIT Technology Review of the Massachusetts Institute of…

Reason

Authors Locked Out of Files Because of Their Ideological Content?

Today's post by Prof. Victor Mair (Language Log) also led me to this story, which is covered in the Wall Street Journal (Wenxin Fan) (paywalled) and also at Gizmodo (Passant Rabie) (unpaywalled) and MIT Technology Review (Zeyi Yang); I quite from Gizmodo: A Chinese software developer is facing backlash after…

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Facebook ads are targeting cancer patients with risky treatments

A report from 'MIT Technology Review' sheds light on Meta's struggle to prevent ads promoting pseudoscience.

Input

They did surgery on a locust's brain for cancer research

Cyborg locusts, developed by a team of scientists from Michigan State University, can detect cancerous cells through scent.

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