Collaborate Disseminate
In episode 24 of The AI Fix, Mark makes an unforgivable error about the Terminator franchise, our hosts wonder if a “seductive” government chatbot will make it easier to talk about tax, a radio station abandons its three month AI experiment after a wee… Continue reading The AI Fix #24: Where are the alien AIs, and are we being softened up for superintelligence?
There’s a common critique in science fiction series like Star Trek about the extraterrestrial species not looking ‘alien’ enough, as well as about their technology being strangely similar to our …read more Continue reading Would We Recognize Extraterrestrial Technology If We Saw It?
In science fiction movies, communicating with aliens is easy. In real life, though, we think it will be tough. Today, you’ll get your chance to see how tough when a …read more Continue reading Simulated ET to Phone Home From Mars this Afternoon
[mat kelcey] was so impressed and inspired by the concept of a very slow movie player (which is the playing of a movie at a slow rate on a kind …read more Continue reading Very Slow Movie Player Avoids E-Ink Ghosting With Machine Learning
Sticking a Raspberry Pi in a Pelican-style case and calling it a cyberdeck has become something of a meme these days, and while we certainly don’t look down on such projects, we recognize they can get a bit repetitive. But we think this one is unique enough to get a …read more
Continue reading Alien Inspired Cyberdeck Packs Vintage Atari 800XL
A new ‘fork’ of the Cerberus banking trojan, called Alien, targets victims’ credentials from more than 200 mobile apps, including Bank of America and Microsoft Outlook. Continue reading Alien Android Banking Trojan Sidesteps 2FA
When he needed a gift for his Alien superfan friend, [Stephen Brennan] decided the best way to put his unique set of skills to use would be to create a bootable Linux operating system that captures the sights and sounds of the Nostromo’s retro-futuristic computer systems. We could all use …read more
Continue reading A Bootable Greeting For The Xenomorph In Your Life
Perhaps you heard about Oumuamua (don’t ask us how to pronounce that). The cigar-shaped object is the first item found by astronomers that is known to have come from outside the solar system and is continuing to pass through, not being captured by the sun’s gravitational field. A recent paper from [Shmuel Bialy] and [Abraham Loeb] from Harvard suggests that the thing could be a discarded light sail from an alien spacecraft.
Of course, it is fun to speculate that anything in space we don’t understand could be alien. However, the paper is doing more than just speculating. The rotation …read more
Continue reading Did We Just Get Buzzed by Alien Space Junk?
Or, how to avoid a “Mars Attacks”-style bloodbath when we eventually encounter extraterrestrials. Continue reading Our DNA Might Be the Most Valuable Thing in a Trade Deal With Aliens
If aliens did contact us would it be safe to open the email? Why would MoviePass track film lovers after they leave the cinema? Would you know how to get around Malaysia when your car rental website lets you down? And will Graham *please* stop talki… Continue reading Smashing Security #068: Malware from outer space!