SpaceX stock-purchasing by Congress members fuels conflict concerns

Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes

Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes Researchers found lax safeguards around the creation of intimate imagery. Hugging Face enables non-consensual intimate imagery, according to a study by European non-profit AI Forensics. The open-source repository for AI tools and models, apps and datasets is hosting tools that can generate sexual AI deepfakes, the study says.

The ultimate packing list for Aug. 12, as a solar eclipse coincides with the Perseid meteors peak

The ultimate packing list for Aug. 12, as a solar eclipse coincides with the Perseid meteors peak From solar binoculars and smart telescopes to camp chairs and stargazing tents, here's what to consider for one of the greatest days of skywatching in years. Aug. 12, 2026, promises to be a big day for anyone interested in the sky. By day, a solar eclipse will be visible across parts of North America and Europe.

Colossal scars of 60 million-year-long continental collision streak across warped mountains in Pakistan — Earth from space

California wiped out 20-pound rodents. DNA suggests someone brought them back

California once believed it had beaten nutria. The invasive semi-aquatic rodents had been wiped out in the state by the late 1970s, but decades later they reappeared in the Central Valley and a new genetic study suggests their return was not an accident of nature, but the result of human reintroduction. The finding matters because nutria are not just another nuisance species.