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Dolly Parton's family is speaking out after a wave of AI-generated songs, images, and videos flooded the internet following the singer's death in late August. Her sister has publicly pleaded for people to stop, calling the content AI garbage. It's a sharp reminder that our tools for synthetic media are outpacing any cultural or legal guardrails meant to protect the deceased.
On a grander scale, astronomers have completed what they're calling the largest map of space ever assembled. The finished chart spans five point six trillion pixels, covers roughly seventy-five percent of the sky, and catalogs approximately four billion celestial objects. And in an unusually generous move for big science, the public can actually explore it interactively online.
Meanwhile, developers using CodePen are raising serious privacy concerns after discovering the popular coding platform appears to transmit everything you type to its servers almost immediately, even before you've saved your work. A user confirmed it by planting a unique marker in their code and watching it appear in network traffic within one to two seconds. CodePen has yet to offer a public explanation.
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