snowflakes Nathan Myhrvold custom-builds a camera to take highest-rez-ever pix of snowflakes Clive Thompson

education More students using AI for homework; also AI not very good at homework Jason Weisberger

dogs Robot dog entered in dog competition Gail Sherman

sec SEC sues Musk over Twitter chicanery Jason Weisberger

guns Blind person with gun accidentally shoots friend instead of the roommate he meant to hit Allan Rose Hill

Business MoviePass CEO faces prison after defrauding investors  Ellsworth Toohey

openai Already $17.9 billion in, Sam Altman confident good things are coming from OpenAI Jason Weisberger

AI-generated UFO video shows how fast visual truth is slipping away Ellsworth Toohey

Science Physics puzzler: stationary ball suddenly moves without force Ellsworth Toohey

music An AI-generated Beatles album I will actually listen to: "Rubber Soul, but it's Motown" Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Math, not artificial intelligence, powers new infinite world generator Ellsworth Toohey

News Strange 1996 "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" Usenet posts remain a mystery Ellsworth Toohey

Science AI-powered robot rats fit right in with real rats Gail Sherman

fraud Britain's AI-based benefit fraud detector unfairly targets minorities Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Set a New Year's resolution to learn piano with this Cyber Week deal Boing Boing's Shop

wood New kind of wood glows in the dark thanks to the magic of honey mushrooms Allan Rose Hill

politics Xungeons & Xragons: Elon wants to buy Hasbro and do to the game what he did to Twitter Rob Beschizza

Drones still revealing Nazca geoglyphs—hundreds of them Rob Beschizza

surveillance AI scams at the conference of American police chiefs Thom Dunn

tech Sir David Attenborough displeased by AI clones of his voice Rob Beschizza