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He sees erotic bots as “one part of your spectrum of relationships,” rather than a replacement for human connection, where users can “indulge a kink” they might not get to explore IRL.Prompt PleasureWhen imagining who’s actually going to use a chatbot for sexual pleasure, it’s easy to picture some stereotypical greasy-haired straight guy who hasn’t left his house in a few days or feels alienated from physical connection in other ways. After all, men were quicker to start using generative AI tools, and now discussions about the male “loneliness epidemic” feel inescapable.Devlin pushes back against the idea that “incel types”…
[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case understanding the nature of WordPress contributions and making sure that contributors understand where they might be needed. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast. And you can copy that URL into host podcast players. If you have a…
Scientists may be closer to understanding why time seems to pass more quickly as we age — and brain scans of people watching an old Alfred Hitchcock show helped them address this enduring question.In a study published Sept. 30 in the journal Communications Biology, scientists pulled data from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN), a long-term brain-aging research project. In total, 577 people had previously watched an excerpt from the old television series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” — specifically, eight minutes of an episode called “Bang! You’re Dead.” As the study participants watched the clip, functional MRI (fMRI) scans…
The Universe Browser makes some big promises to its potential users. Its online advertisements claim it’s the “fastest browser,” that people using it will “avoid privacy leaks” and that the software will help “keep you away from danger.” However, everything likely isn’t as it seems.The browser, which is linked to Chinese online gambling websites and is thought to have been downloaded millions of times, actually routes all internet traffic through servers in China and “covertly installs several programs that run silently in the background,” according to new findings from network security company Infoblox. The researchers say the “hidden” elements include…
[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case a personal journey through the history of the internet from start to now. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wp tavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d…
A man in Germany has discovered a Roman-era hoard with hundreds of silver coins, a gold ring, one gold coin and several silver bars — but he didn’t do it legally.The man initially found the 2,000-year-old hoard with a metal detector in 2017 near the village of Borsum in the Hildesheim district of Lower Saxony, northwest Germany. However, he didn’t have a permit to unearth artifacts, and he didn’t report the finding at the time. Instead, he waited until April this year to tell the police and the city of Hildesheim’s monument protection authorities, according to a translated statement.Upon learning…
AI models may be a bit like humans, after all.A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to anyone who has spent too long doomscrolling on X or TikTok.”We live in an age where information grows faster than attention spans—and much of it is engineered to capture clicks, not convey truth or depth,” says Junyuan Hong, an incoming assistant professor at the National University of Singapore who worked…
[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, what WordPress and Drupal have in common. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast,…
QUICK FACTSMilestone: Scientists develop a chemical recipe for watching molecules in living creaturesDate: Oct. 23, 2007Where: The University of California, Berkeley and other labsWho: A team of scientists led by Carolyn BertozziIn 2007, scientists published a paper that laid out a recipe for a new type of biochemistry. The method would allow scientists to see what was happening in organisms in real time.Carolyn Bertozzi, then a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and her research lab had spent years trying to visualize glycans, special carbohydrate molecules that dot cell surfaces.Glycans are one of the three major classes of biomolecules…
Looking for a Bluetooth speaker that’s rugged and ready for anything? The JBL Clip 5, named for its built-in latching hook, is currently marked down to just $60 at Amazon and Walmart in a variety of colors and finishes. That’s a healthy 25 percent discount and makes this compact Bluetooth speaker an appealing option for anyone who loves a little adventure.Photograph: Ryan WaniataPhotograph: Ryan WaniataPhotograph: Ryan WaniataWhile the attached clip is the big draw, this little speaker packs a surprisingly big sound profile. In his write-up, our reviewer Ryan Waniata says it has a “fuller bass and midrange frequencies than…