Wednesday, July 29, 2026
ArchiveA researcher built a Word document that infects other Word documents through Copilot, spreading instructions from file to file without user action. Enterprise AI just got its first real worm.
Lasers pierced the Amazon canopy and found 20,000 ancient earthworks — evidence that up to 3 million people once lived in an area smaller than Montana. We had the scale of pre-Columbian civilization wrong.
For decades, Alzheimer's drugs targeted amyloid plaques and barely worked. A Nature Neuroscience study just found a third type of lesion — mitochondrial plaques — with almost no overlap. That missing piece may explain everything.
Police matched a username to the wrong person because they missed one underscore. He spent 18 months in prison. The forensic failure is so specific it reads like fiction — but it exposes how brittle digital evidence really is.
Shen Anyu's voice was cloned without consent and sold cheap. Now he has to prove his own recordings aren't AI-generated. An identity crisis that's arriving for all of us, told through one man in China.