The Download: AI disinformation, and lab-grown meat

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI The news: Disinformation generated by AI may be more convincing than disinformation written by humans, according to […]

Industry group NetChoice, which includes Meta and Twitter, sues Arkansas over a new law requiring parental permission for minors to create social media accounts (Andrew DeMillo/Associated Press)

Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press:Industry group NetChoice, which includes Meta and Twitter, sues Arkansas over a new law requiring parental permission for minors to create social media accounts  —  A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas on Thursday challenging a new state law that requires parental permission for minors to […]

The Great Hum: Scientists finally detect continuous gravitational waves rippling across space-time

The universe is continuously rippling with gravitational waves, a 15-year survey has reported. Using pulsars as distant beacons and radio telescopes to plumb the galaxy, a massive collaboration of astronomers and physicists has found strong evidence of a gravitational-wave background undulating through the cosmos. A single wave may take years […]