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 S61Adobe launches new symbol to tag AI-generated content--but will anyone use it?   On Tuesday, Adobe announced a new symbol designed to indicate when content has been generated or altered using AI tools, reports The Verge, as well as verifying the provenance of non-AI media. The symbol, created in collaboration with other industry players as part of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), aims to bring transparency to media creation and reduce the impact of misinformation or deepfakes online. Whether it will actually do so in practice is uncertain.
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S69Nikki Haley Is the New Ron DeSantis  Not her moment to become the Republican presidential front-runner. (Don’t be silly.) Not even her moment to nip at Donald Trump’s heels. But it could be her chance to consolidate the anti-Trump support in the GOP, and to make a solid play for the silver medal and maybe a good speaking slot at the RNC in Milwaukee next summer.The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador has risen, slightly, in recent polls, and is now third in RealClearPolitics’ average of national polls, after Trump and Ron DeSantis. She is consistently coming in second in polling in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, having pulled ahead of DeSantis there. This week, she picked up the endorsement of former Representative Will Hurd when he dropped out of the Republican race. She’s appearing at two major donor conferences this month. Her boomlet is a long way from the big candidate bubbles of the 2012 and 2016 GOP primaries, but it’s the most notable surge in the race right now.
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S56We are told not to fear terrorism. But there are 3 reasons why we should  We are all much more scared of terrorism than we used to be. In the U.S., about one in three people are worried about being the victim of a terrorist attack. In Europe, terrorism consistently makes it onto lists of people’s biggest concerns, and it was Europeans’ #1 concern in 2016 and 2017. Even if people aren’t in “terror,” they are anxious about it, and their behaviors have adapted to this anxiety. Most people believe life has permanently changed since 9/11. For Israelis, life may have permanently changed following the events of October 7, 2023.How justified is this fear of terrorism? One line of argument is that it’s not justified at all.
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S45The Best Prime Day Espresso Machine Deals (and Coffee Gear)  As the prophecy foretold, even death could not stop Prime Day. Like Dracula (the Claes Bang version), these Prime Day espresso machine deals are killer, but unspeakably alluring—especially if you're in the market for a new coffee machine, or just want to up your home barista game with some coffee accessories. After all, who doesn't love a freshly pulled shot of human blood espresso? We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically throughout the sale event.
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S52The #1 cause of burnout is not what you think  We normally associate burnout with being overworked, but that’s not actually the cause. Studies show that when you’re working on something you feel passionate about — when you feel impact — you’re often able to go on much longer and be more productive than when you’re simply going through the motions.
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S46The Best October Prime Day Deals Under $50  Prime Day is here again with deals on everything at every price point, from $10,000 backyard sheds you could literally live in, to deals under $50.Correction: Amazon's second coming of Prime Day is actually called Prime Big Deal Days—a bold choice, to say the least. We'll still be calling it Amazon Prime Day, and you hereby have permission from this humble WIRED writer to do the same. If you're hunting for the best cheap deals, well, you're in luck. We've rounded up the best Prime Day deals under $50— nothing feels more like a deal than when it's affordable, but it can be hard to find what's a good cheap deal and what isn't. We did the work for you (you're welcome!).
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S60S19New Technologies Arrive in Clusters. What Does That Mean for AI?  Historically, technology arrives in clusters. With electrification came dynamos, generators, switch gears and power distribution system. With the printing press came the technologies to make large quantities of cheap paper and ink. Looking at these past clusters can help us understand the moment we’re in now, and what the future of AI — especially GenAI — might really look like. For now, leaders should assess the state of their data quality and work to build organizational muscle to complete data projects. They should also look for proprietary data that they own, which can give them a competitive advantage, and beef up their change management capabilities.
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S55"Eucatastrophe": Tolkien on the secret to a good fairy tale  There are at least two versions of the story of Pandora’s box. In the classic version from the Greek poet Hesiod, when Pandora’s curiosity got the better of her, she unleashed into the world all sorts of evils: sickness, famine, death, and people who ask questions at the end of a meeting. When Pandora finally closed the jar, she left only one “evil” inside: hope. For Hesiod, there’s nothing so cruel as hope. Hope is what forces us to carry on building, fixing, and loving when the world offers only destruction, chaos, and heartbreak. It’s what gets us off the ground only to be punched back down. Hope is the naivety of a fool. As Friedrich Nietzsche put it, “Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”Another variation of the Pandora’s box story is a Greek fable called “Zeus and the Jar of Good Things.” In this account, everything is inverted. The jar does not contain misery but good things. When “mankind” (there’s no Pandora in this version) opened the jar, they let out and lost all these good things: the things that would have made life a paradise. When the lid was closed, there was only one divine blessing left: “Hope alone is still found among the people.”
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S28The Milky Way May Be Missing a Trillion Suns' Worth of Mass  Slow-moving stars at the Milky Way’s outskirts suggest our galaxy may be far lighter than previously believed, with profound implications for dark matterThere’s something strange going on with the Milky Way. Recent measurements suggest that stars at the outskirts of our galaxy are misbehaving. They’re traveling far slower than similarly situated stars in other galaxies. One possible explanation for the Milky Way’s stellar slowpokes is that our galaxy is extraordinarily deficient in dark matter, the invisible substance thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures. Another is that our core conceptions about dark matter—such as how much of it exists in the universe—are somehow deeply flawed.
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S30S63Planet collision explains star's brightening, then dimming  Planet formation is thought to be a messy process, as lots of growing planets end up in unstable orbits, resulting in large collisions like the one that resulted in the Moon's formation. The messiness may not end there, as many exosolar systems have indications that their planets migrated after their formation, creating the potential for further collisions. Again, there are indications that a similar thing happened in our own Solar System, as Jupiter and Saturn seem to have moved around before reaching their present orbits.
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S6425 of the most popular Amazon Prime Day deals with Ars Technica readers  Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days are coming to a close, but there's still time to grab something before the oddly named sale ends. As we look toward wrapping things up, we're sharing some of the products that have been most popular with Ars Technica readers these past couple of days, both on Amazon and elsewhere. From obvious picks like the AirPods Pro to unexpected ones like a hydroponic garden kit and a DeWalt circular saw, here are some of the cool, weird, and wonderful things Ars readers bought during Amazon's big October sales event.
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S53Ammonium chloride tastes like nothing else. It may be the sixth basic taste  Scientists have just caught up with something that Scandinavians have suspected strongly for over a century: Ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) may be a basic taste, joining sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. Denizens of Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands gobble up the compound in “salmiak,” a salt licorice candy. But don’t be fooled by the “candy” label. As Andrew Richdale wrote for Saveur back in 2017, salmiak tastes nothing like any other candy you have ever tried.
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S58Build your dream desktop with these Prime Day PC components deals  If you're building a new PC, there's no time like Amazon's big Prime Day sale to grab a deal on PC parts. Components like fans, motherboards, CPUs, and GPUs are all on sale. Whether you're starting from scratch on building your own powerful gaming rig or workstation, or you're upgrading an existing build, we have some options.
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S43A Graphic Hamas Video Donald Trump Jr. Shared on X Is Actually Real, Research Confirms  Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump Jr. posted a graphic video to X (formerly Twitter) that purported to show Hamas fighters murdering Israeli citizens during the attack last Saturday morning. “You don’t negotiate with this,” Trump Jr. wrote. “There’s only one way to handle this.” The son of former US president Donald Trump added that the video had come from a “source within Israel.”Then X’s user-generated fact-checking system, Community Notes, appended a message to the tweet, stating: “This is an old video and is not from Israel,” accompanied by a link to the original video. The note suggested that Trump Jr. was contributing to what has been a flood of disinformation on X since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Saturday, supercharged by verified users and accompanied by other conspiracy theories pushed by the company’s owner, Elon Musk.
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S51What happened to the dream of the Pan-American highway?  The highway began a century ago as a dream of unfettered motor-vehicle travel between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. It was born of a can-do optimism and good neighbor policies, not to mention US businesses eager to increase their automobile, tire, and road construction sales in South American markets.“The highway was to be a shared American public space,” writes scholar Shawn W. Miller of boosters’ notions in the 1920–1940s, “an international corridor, and tourism would bind the Americas in a common, popular fellowship.” Behind the talk of fellowship and cooperation, though, it was all very much about building the infrastructure to sell more US-made cars. Cars which were, incidentally, transported by ship.
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S66The New AI Panic  Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.For decades, the Department of Commerce has maintained a little-known list of technologies that, on grounds of national security, are prohibited from being sold freely to foreign countries. Any company that wants to sell such a technology overseas must apply for permission, giving the department oversight and control over what is being exported and to whom.
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S67The Mississippi Is Losing Its Fight With the Ocean  A combination of drought and sea-level rise has sent a wedge of salt water moving up the river.The mouth of the Mississippi River is the arena for a kind of wrestling match. In one corner of the ring is the salt water of the Gulf of Mexico, and in the other, the river’s fresh water. The two shove against each other, and usually, the Mississippi flows with enough force to keep the salt water out. But this year’s drought, currently affecting 40 percent of the continental United States, sapped the Mississippi of water pressure, and a wedge of salt water began muscling its way upstream along the riverbed this summer. It’s already corrupted the drinking water in several towns in southeast Louisiana, and could reach New Orleans around late November. The ocean is winning.
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S40Fitbit's Latest Flagship Tracker Tightens Its Integrations With Your Google Apps  If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDTo test the music features on Fitbit’s latest flagship fitness tracker, I started a YouTube Music Premium subscription. This is less arduous than it sounds, since YouTube Music Premium offers a free 1-month trial. It's also probably not a coincidence, since Google owns both Fitbit and YouTube, so the company is motivated to get you to use both platforms.
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S22Did Australia's boomerangs pave the way for flight?  The aircraft is one of the most significant developments of modern society, enabling people, goods and ideas to fly around the world far more efficiently than ever before. The first successful piloted flight took off in 1903 in North Carolina, but a 10,000-year-old hunting tool likely developed by Aboriginal Australians may have held the key to its lift-off. As early aviators discovered, the secret to flight is balancing the flow of air. Therefore, an aircraft's wings, tail or propeller blades are often shaped in a specially designed, curved manner called an aerofoil that lifts the plane up and allows it to drag or turn to the side as it moves through the air.
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S68The Journalist and the Fallen Billionaire  Michael Lewis was captivated by Sam Bankman-Fried from their very first meeting—and on the evidence of Lewis’s new book, Going Infinite, his affection has not wavered in the two years since. Which is surprising, because Bankman-Fried is no longer a lauded cryptocurrency billionaire but an alleged con man, on trial for seven counts of fraud and money laundering. (He has pleaded not guilty.)Lewis was introduced to Bankman-Fried by an unnamed friend, who was poised to invest in the latter’s crypto exchange, FTX. The deal “would bind their fates, through an exchange of shares in each other’s companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars,” and so, naturally, the friend wanted Lewis to check out this scatterbrained prodigy who had gotten rich from trading virtual money.
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S59CD-indexing cue files are the core of a serious Linux remote code exploit  It has been a very long time since the average computer user thought about .cue files, or cue sheets, the metadata bits that describe the tracks of an optical disc, like a CD or DVD. But cue sheets are getting attention again, for all the wrong reasons. They're at the heart of a one-click exploit that could give an attacker code execution on Linux systems with GNOME desktops.
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S18Is Your Team Caught in the Solution Fixation Trap?  In the face of escalating complexities, organizations are increasingly relying on teams to tackle these intricate issues and drive pivotal organizational decisions. To extract maximum value from team dynamics, leaders must remain mindful of potential biases that may impact team dynamics and to actively steer and fine-tune team processes. Specifically, the authors urge leaders to address a decision-making bias they call the solution fixation trap, which emerges when a team rushes into discussing possible solutions before fully understanding the problem at hand. The authors discuss the study that helped them uncover this bias, explain what the solution fixation trap looks like, and discuss what leaders can do to protect their teams from it.
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S10S4S32Key Biden Climate Pollution Metric Is Safe - For Now  Supreme Court justices declined to decide whether the Biden administration is placing too high a value on the cost to society of spewing carbon and other planet-warming gasesCLIMATEWIRE | The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a fight by Republican-led states over the federal government's method of estimating the costs of climate change, in a win for President Joe Biden's push to address rising emissions.
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S11S3Stop Over-Apologizing at Work  There are a variety of reasons we may feel the need to say sorry at work, even when it’s not necessary. It could be because we want to be liked, are reeling under a false sense of guilt, or are fighting our perfectionism. While holding yourself accountable for your behavior in the workplace is important, over-apologizing can negatively impact both you and your team. Of course, there are moments when apologizing is necessary. Here are a few examples of when saying sorry is absolutely critical.
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S65S47What's Lost When Data Systems Don't Communicate  Imagine a scenario. Kelly, a dedicated employee in a large hospital network, readied herself for another day of handling upset customers. As a member of the consumer relations team, she addressed escalated calls from patients who had been redirected multiple times. Her challenge for the day involved a potential Alzheimer’s patient seeking a second opinion from a different hospital network. Unfortunately, this patient was informed that Kelly’s network was unable to transmit medical records electronically, and instead may have to undertake a 90-minute trip to collect the records on a CD.Amid the stress of the call, Kelly identified a synchronization problem within their internal systems as the root cause. She took the initiative, navigating across various systems, including electronic health record systems, archives, health exchanges, and health information service provider systems. Kelly manually resolved the sync issue and ensured the records were sent over, earning the patient’s gratitude. This act of service, particularly meaningful because she herself had ageing parents, brought Kelly immense joy.
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S20Taupo: The super volcano under New Zealand's largest lake  Located in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, the town of Taupo sits sublimely in the shadow of the snow-capped peaks of Tongariro National Park. Fittingly, this 40,000-person lakeside town has recently become one of New Zealand's most popular tourist destinations, as hikers, trout fishers, water sports enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies have started descending upon it.The namesake of this tidy town is the Singapore-sized lake that kisses its western border. Stretching 623sq km wide and 160m deep with several magma chambers submerged at its base, Lake Taupo isn't only New Zealand's largest lake; it's also an incredibly active geothermal hotspot. Every summer, tourists flock to bathe in its bubbling hot springs and sail through its emerald-green waters. Yet, the lake is the crater of a giant super volcano, and within its depths lies the unsettling history of this picturesque marvel.
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S50JWST finds free-floating planets in the Orion Nebula?  If there’s one thing that’s almost always true in the science of astronomy, it’s this: whenever you have a new instrument, telescope, or observatory — one that’s more powerful and with new capabilities that surpass all others previously — you’re bound to uncover new details wherever you look, even if it’s peering at an object you’ve viewed thousands of times before. Since mid-2022, when JWST finished its commissioning operations and began observing various aspects of the Universe, it’s revolutionized our views of planets, stars, nebulae, galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the deepest, darkest recesses of the distant Universe.Recently, however, it turned its attention to the Orion Nebula: the closest large star-forming region to Earth. Located just 1300 light-years away and containing ~2000 times the mass of the Sun, it spans more than a full square degree in the sky, while the densest star cluster within it, the Trapezium Cluster, contains approximately 2800 stars located within 20 light-years of one another.
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S13S41The Best October Prime Day TV Deals  Black Friday is almost synonymous with great deals on TVs. But increasingly Amazon Prime Day TV deals compete with the original American shopping holiday, which has featured bargain televisions going back to the days of big-screen sets that weighed as much as a refrigerator. In July, Prime Day deals on TVs were plentiful, including screaming sales on sets from LG, Samsung, and Vizio. We expect similar sales this Prime Big Deals Days.Maybe it's the start of the NFL season and fall TV schedule, but some of the current TV deals are actually on par with what we've seen before. Here are the best Prime Day TV deals in October, tracking prices closely on top WIRED-recommended TVs, soundbars, and 4K streaming devices.
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S48The Absolute Best October Prime Day Deals  Amazon Prime Day Part II is here, and that means a fresh batch of Prime Day deals. Technically Amazon calls this Prime Big Deal Days, but like most people, we think of it as Prime Day Deux. As usual, most of these Prime Day deals require a Prime membership, but you can snag a 30-day free trial to make the most of the event. We've been combing Amazon's website to bring you the best discounts on laptops, tablets, kitchen and home gear, headphones, and plenty more.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide regularly throughout Prime Day by adding fresh deals and removing dead deals.
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S34Your Brain Finds It Easy to Size Up Four Objects But Not Five - Here's Why  Neuron activity shows that the brain uses different systems for counting up to four, and for five or moreFor more than a century, researchers have known that people are generally very good at eyeballing quantities of four or fewer items. But performance at sizing up numbers drops markedly — becoming slower and more prone to error — in the face of larger numbers.
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