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- Russian hackers are eight times faster than Chinese and North Korean groups
- Machine learning is contributing to a “reproducibility crisis” within science
- The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained
- Facebook is set to pay a multi-billion dollar fine to settle a US privacy probe
- We should gene-sequence cave paintings to find out more about who made them
- Mt. Gox was riddled with price manipulation, data mining reveals
- Russia is going to ban soldiers from using smartphones and social media on duty
- Lab-grown meat could be worse for the environment than beef
- In China, some parents seek an edge with genetic testing for tots
- A UK parliamentary committee has accused Facebook of being “digital gangsters”
- A harpoon has just successfully speared a piece of space junk
- NASA’s new telescope will investigate the evolution of the universe
- JPMorgan is launching its own cryptocurrency—but it’s nothing like Bitcoin
- The CRISPR twins had their brains altered
- Space Force, go! Trump has moved to establish a new arm of the US military
- Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to fire bullets into an asteroid
- Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
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