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While the strengthening El Niño helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot.

Heat records are being shattered thanks to a boost from the natural climate pattern—and burning fossil fuels, of course.

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.

While a bunch of sharks cruising the Maine coast may seem ominous, it’s actually a sign of a conservation success story.

TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply-chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.

“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.”

South Park, Slow Horses, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and a Lego-fied Mandalorian are just a few of the things you should be watching right now.

Scientists have found a new form of pollution, one where plastic and pieces of coral become irreversibly intertwined.

A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.