Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Welcome back to Kernel Panic! If you haven’t been paying attention to Meta’s newest experiment, here’s the short version: the company has launched an AI assistant called Muse, and it…

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How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27

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If you happened to miss the awe-inspiring total solar eclipse that swept across a narrow band of the earth earlier…

The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable

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In a courtroom in Northern California, the fluorescent lights hummed over a scene that had been years in the making.…

How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood

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In the rarefied air of the high Himalayas, where the stark border between Nepal and Tibet dissolves into a jagged…

Democrats Just Might Win the Senate

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The year is 2026, and the midterm elections have already begun to cast their long, unhurried shadow. For Democrats, there…

OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers

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Paragraph 1: The Stunning Revelation and the Unanswered Questions In a move that has sent shockwaves through the artificial intelligence…

There Are No Trans Women in the WNBA, so Right-Wingers Are Making Some Up

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In the sprawling, chaotic digital arena of X, formerly known as Twitter, where outrage is the prevailing currency and nuance…

Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety

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Under the vast, indifferent Nebraska sky, the air inside the high school gymnasium was thick with the heat of a…

Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All

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The courtroom atmosphere was electric—the kind of charged energy that precedes a long-awaited clash between a Goliath and the collective…

PeopleFinders’ New Website Runs Background Checks on Your Dates

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We’ve all been there. You’re swiping through a dating app, and suddenly a profile catches your eye. The photos are…