Rob Brooks

1 day ago | flipboard.com | Rachael Brown |Rob Brooks

8 hours agoPlus, AT&T responds. If you are one of the more than 100 million people who use AT&T, you might want to take stock of your data. Hackers said they accessed and leaked millions of AT&T customers' private information after the ShinyHunters group allegedly stole the data in April 2024, according to a …

1 day ago | theconversation.com | Rachael Brown |Rob Brooks

Los piojos, las pulgas y las tenias han sido compañeras de la humanidad a lo largo de nuestra historia evolutiva. Sin embargo, el mayor parásito de la era moderna no es ningún invertebrado chupasangre. Es elegante, tiene una pantalla de cristal y es adictivo por diseño. ¿Su huésped? Todos los seres humanos de la Tierra con señal wifi.

6 days ago | theconversation.com | Rachael Brown |Rob Brooks

Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Far from being benign tools, smartphones parasitise our time, our attention and our personal information, all in the interests of technology companies and their advertisers.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Rachael Brown |Rob Brooks

21 hours agoExpensive planes, tanks, and ships can be destroyed on the cheap. Relying on its own resources, Ukraine has just carried out what might be the most complex, elaborately planned, and cost-effective military operation of its current war with Russia. Yesterday, the Ukrainians used drones to attack, …

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Gemma Ware |Rob Brooks

Some of the leading brains behind generative AI have warned about the risk of artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity, if left unchecked. But what if the influence of AI on humans is much more mundane, influencing our evolution over thousands of years through natural selection? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast we talk to evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks about what AI could do to the evolution of humanity, from smaller brains to fewer friends.