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3 weeks 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 …
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
gizmodo.com | Rachael Brown |Rob Brooks |UNSW Sydney |Rhett Jones
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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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, …
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2 months 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.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Rob Brooks
GLP Policy & Performance Review, Fall 2024 The GLP is committed to full transparency. Download the report.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
psypost.org | Rob Brooks
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter lives – often for better, sometimes for worse. They have conjured dramatic scenarios, like AI-driven extinction of humans (and many other species), or our assimilation into human-AI cyborgs. The predictions are generally grim, pitting the fate of all humans against a unitary (or unified) AI opponent.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Rob Brooks
6 hours ago Brian Walshe, charged with killing his wife, in court Monday: Watch live at 2 p.m. Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife, Ana, and dismembering her body in 2023, is scheduled to appear in court for a … 6 hours ago Ted Bundy lawyer reveals what 'totally fascinates' him about Bryan Kohberger case A former defense attorney for Ted Bundy has described a "fascinating" parallel between the infamous serial killer's last act and the charges against University of...
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
knowridge.com | Rob Brooks
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter lives—often for better, sometimes for worse. They have conjured dramatic scenarios, like AI-driven extinction of humans (and many other species), or our assimilation into human-AI cyborgs. The predictions are generally grim, pitting the fate of all humans against a unitary (or unified) AI opponent.
