When GPS lies at sea: How electronic warfare is threatening ships and their crews

In addition to watching out for missile and drone attacks, mariners in conflict zones need to be on guard for GPS spoofing ...
Scientific American

Why ships in the Strait of Hormuz can’t trust their navigation screens

GPS spoofing is distorting vessel positions and deepening the risk in one of the world’s most important shipping lanes ...

AI doesn’t ‘see’ the way that you do, and that could be a problem when it categorizes objects and scenes

People and computers perceive the world differently, which can lead AI to make mistakes no human would. Researchers are working on how to bring human and AI vision into alignment.

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers

Viral student-run TikTok and Instagram accounts are using AI to make memes of school faculty comparing them to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Futurism

Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT

In a closed-door meeting with clergy from the Diocese of Rome late last week, Pope Leo XIV clobbered his priests with a distinctly 21st-century request: to resist the “temptation to prepare homilies ...
The Washington Post

Is Europe beginning to admit it has a problem?

European Union leaders gather for a family photo during their retreat at Alden Biesen castle in Belgium on Thursday. (Murad Sezer/Reuters) Europe’s most important leaders are increasingly, and ...
Ars Technica

NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Saturday the agency is looking at ways to prevent the fueling problems plaguing the Space Launch System rocket before the Artemis III mission. Artemis III is ...
Fast Company

AI is still both more and less amazing than we think, and that’s a problem

A February 9 blog post about AI, titled “Something Big Is Happening,” rocketed around the web this week in a way that reminded me of the golden age of the blogosphere. Everyone seemed to be talking ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Everybody Loses’ Review: The Problem With Parlays

You can tell a lot about a book by the people who want nothing to do with it. In Danny Funt’s “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling,” that includes the commissioners of the ...
Ars Technica

ULA’s Vulcan rocket suffers another booster problem on the way to orbit

Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...