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Lee Vinsel is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech, a cofounder of The Maintainers, and the host of Peoples & Things, a podcast about human life with technology.<\/em><\/p>\n This story is from the latest edition of our print magazine, which is all about nature. <\/strong>Subscribe now<\/strong> to read the full issue and receive future print copies once they land.<\/strong><\/p>\n The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n 1 The first zero-day exploit built by AI has been discovered 2 OpenAI just launched its answer to Claude Mythos 3 Trump is heading to China to spread the gospel of American tech 4 Ilya Sutskever has testified on Sam Altman’s “pattern of lying” 5 A new hantavirus vaccine is in the works<\/strong> 6 Texas has sued Netflix over alleged data harvesting and “addictive” design 7 A data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water\u2014and no one noticed 8 Europe is reportedly selling spyware to human rights abusers 9 The US government\u2019s AI vetting announcement has mysteriously vanished 10 Amazon staff are using AI for pointless tasks just to inflate usage scores \u2014Anupam Chander, a professor of law and technology at Georgetown Law School, tells the New York Times that Elon Musk\u2019s hypocrisy over OpenAI becoming a for-profit company will undermine his courtroom battle with Sam Altman.<\/p>\n One More Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Download #Nobel #winner #case #fixing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lee Vinsel is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8256,2560,803,3959,8257,8255,2614],"class_list":["post-9944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-and-the-case-for-fixing-everything","tag-case","tag-download","tag-fixing","tag-nobel","tag-the-download-a-nobel-winner-on-ai","tag-winner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260507_algo2-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>Google spotted and stopped the attempted \u201cmass exploitation event.\u201d (CNBC)
+ The hackers used AI to discover an unknown bug.<\/em> (NYT $)
+ AI-powered hacking has exploded into an industrial-scale threat.<\/em> (Guardian)
+ New tools are simplifying online crime.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Daybreak patches vulnerabilities before attackers find them. (The Verge)
+ Sam Altman said it will \u201ccontinuously secure software.\u201d<\/em> (Gizmodo)
+ It will rival Anthropic\u2019s Claude Mythos, which arrived a month ago.<\/em> (BBC)
+ OpenAI is allowing wider access to its cyber models than Anthropic.<\/em> (CNBC)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>While taking cues from Beijing\u2019s more stringent approach. (Guardian)
+ But investors want Trump and Xi to stay out of AI’s way. <\/em>(Reuters $)
+ Elon Musk and Tim Cook are joining him on the trip this week.<\/em> (BBC)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>OpenAI co-founder Sutskever took the stand in the Altman v. Musk trial. (BI)
+ He said he spent a year gathering proof of Altman\u2019s dishonesty. <\/em>(Reuters $)
+ But he also added to OpenAI\u2019s defense.<\/em> (Wired $)
+ While Satya Nadella called attempts to remove Altman \u201camateur city.\u201d<\/em> (FT $)
+ Here\u2019s what happened last week in the trial.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
Moderna and Korea University are developing an mRNA vaccine. (Wired $)
+ Here\u2019s what you need to know about the cruise ship outbreak. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>AG Ken Paxton accuses Netflix of secretly collecting and selling user data. (Quartz)
+ And spying on children while deliberately fostering addiction.<\/em> (Guardian)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The curious case serves as a warning for other data center projects. (Ars Technica)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>EU states allegedly sold the tech to countries violating rights. (Bloomberg $)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>It had detailed a security test agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft. (Gizmodo)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>In a bid to impress managers. (FT $)
<\/strong>+ An AI expert says we should stop using AI so much.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThis is like the cheating husband complaining about the cheating wife.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n