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A three-metre rupture in the Kahramanmaraş-Gaziantep highway, close to the village of Tevekkelli in the earthquake zone. Credit: Hasan Sözbilir/Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Author provided The earthquakes that struck in Turkey and Syria in the early hours of February 6 have led to terrible destruction on a scale not seen in Europe for many decades. At the time of writing, the death toll has risen beyond 11,000 people and…

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm in recent months, but just as it has amazed people with its technical capabilities, concerns have also been raised over its potential misuse. Now, it seems some IT leaders are worried it will soon be used in major cyberattacks, with the potential to cause devastation in the future. In a survey of 1,500 IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted by BlackBerry, 51% of respondents believed that ChatGPT will be responsible for a successful cyberattack in the next 12 months. As much…

Cavan Images/Getty ImagesIt's not easy being Google.There you were, lauding it over everyone, bathing in unimaginably large advertising revenues, and actually telling people you do no evil.But then came internal discontent, governmental lawsuits, ChatGPT, and a general perception that the company has turned a little sad.Please don't worry, Google, I'm going to make it a little worse for you. more Technically Incorrect Or, rather, TikTok is.The somewhat controversial dance entertainment platform has suddenly decided…

Actor Jeremy Renner has had a long and successful career, although his name is perhaps most synonymous with his ongoing role as Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While audiences have watched him save the day a number of times, fans were concerned when he was hospitalized on New Year’s Day, remaining in critical care to this day. And new reports reveal Renner was being a real-life superhero when he got into his devastating snowplow accident. Buckle up, true believers.Jeremy Renner’s generations of fans were…

In the next few decades rising sea will lead to increased storm and tidal flooding for millions of Americans in coastal communities. Norfolk, Virginia, is pictured here with an inundated roadway.Credit: City of NorfolkNew results show average sea level rise approaching the 1-foot mark for most coastlines of the contiguous U.S. by 2050. The Gulf Coast and Southeast will see the most change.By 2050, sea level along contiguous U.S. coastlines could rise as much as 12 inches (30 centimeters) above today’s waterline, according…

In the winding streets of Naples’s notorious Spanish quarter, haunted by gang violence, a cycle of incarceration grinds on. Entoni, a mischievous, charismatic force of nature who likes to get into trouble, exasperates his grandmother Dora and mother Natalia. Victoria Fiore’s shattering documentary observes him over four years as he grows, witnessing how his adolescent rebellion results in a forced stay at a reform facility and later youth prison.Instead of the realist style often employed in social-issue documentaries,…

A picture of the patient, Ayla. Credit: University of California – San FranciscoThe toddler is thriving after the loss of their siblings who had the same disorder.For the first time ever, physicians have successfully treated a fetus with a devastating genetic disorder using a protocol developed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The child, who is now a thriving toddler, was featured in a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.“This treatment expands the repertoire of fetal…

Twitter gets hacked and contains a devasting amount of information from well-known users In one of the largest Twitter data breaches, 400 million Twitter users’ private information was sold on the dark web. Following his criticism of Twitter’s policies and procedures, Elon Musk may be faced with a breach of this size. The last hack, which affected more than 5.4 million people, is already being investigated by the DPC. The previous vulnerability was found in late November. As proof that the data is authentic,…

ChatGPT makes an irresistible first impression. It's got a devastating sense of humor, a stunning capacity for dead-on mimicry, and it can rhyme like nobody's business. Then there is its overwhelming reasonableness. When ChatGPT fails the Turing test, it's usually because it refuses to offer its own opinion on just about anything. When was the last time real people on the internet declined to tell you what they really think? I started talking to ChatGPT a couple of weeks ago, after the artificial intelligence company…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from the University of Hertfordshire reveals the acute extent of food poverty amongst immigrants in the U.K. who have no access to welfare benefits, with widespread reports of food shortages and lack of appropriate support. According to Citizens Advice, an estimated 1.3 million people in…