MIT Brain Scans Suggest That Using Generative AI Tools Reduces Cognitive Activity

It turns out that if you have something do all of the creative work for you, you’re not going to be very good at doing creative work. Gosh no, shocking, really?

1.6 Billion Passwords Leaked 2025 From Apple, Facebook, Google Change Your Password Now

I already changed mine. I made it 1-2-3-4-5, just like the combination on my luggage

More Stories Below, but first some new content in the News Sidequest Podcast Universe…

Auditory Anthology

SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD

When a paleontologist on an asteroid expedition encounters the last of an alien race, he faces an impossible request and a startling discovery that could change the future of two species.

Zen by Jerome Bixby Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Golf Talk, Grit, and $4.3 Million Putts with John Dempsey

AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL

JJ Spaun shocks the field at Oakmont with a dramatic U.S. Open win, and John Howell and John Dempsey are here to break it all down

Golf Talk, Grit, and $4.3 Million Putts with John Dempsey Big John Howell Episode

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Heaven Is a Playground—The Book, the Movie, and the Memories

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER

John Howell and Rick Telander along with John Dempsey take a deep dive into Telander's iconic book Heaven Is a Playground—from its origins in a 1973 Sports Illustrated article to its 1991 film adaptation.

Heaven Is a Playground—The Book, the Movie, and the Memories John Howell / Rick Telander Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• Former US fighter pilot claims he nearly collided with UFO in ‘wildest experience’ he’s ever had - That seems somewhat problematic

• Scientists issue stark warning after harmful creatures breed to form hybrid species: 'We have confirmed the presence of hybrid swarms' - Well there’s another thing I didn’t know we had to be worried about

• Loudoun Co. schools plan to use AI to boost campus security - Who had “RoboCop” on their bingo card for June?

• Scientists reconstruct 10,500-year-old woman’s face using DNA - Finally, a headline that actually makes me feel young

• Marijuana Use Dramatically Increases Risk of Dying From Heart Attacks and Stroke, Large Study Finds - That’s less than ideal

• Confused chicken crosses to the wrong side of road, ends up at a Buffalo Wild Wings - It finally happened and had a super dark ending

• Florida man broke into random house, ran bath, cooked dinner to avoid going home to angry wife - I’m sure she’s thrilled now

• Minnesota’s Hormel sues Wisconsin’s Johnsonville alleging stolen sausage secrets - Begun, the Sausage Wars have

• Diaper-wearing spider monkey found wandering loose in Texas - Poor monkey lost his primary method of communication

• North Korea launches more than a dozen rockets, South Korea says - Must have been angry someone else was getting attention

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