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Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist who built a career on rational skepticism, says his conversations with Anthropic's Claude felt less like querying software and more like engaging another mind. Whether that reflects something real about the model or something revealing about human psychology, the question of machine consciousness just got a notable new voice.
Shifting to a story with no ambiguity about its stakes, a new NASA satellite survey has mapped how Mexico City is sinking — and the picture is alarming. Some neighborhoods are dropping as much as two centimeters every single month, and the subsidence is uneven, meaning infrastructure stress is fracturing the city in ways that are difficult to predict or plan around.
And a researcher has found that the official White House app sits just one command away from tracking a user's precise location every four and a half minutes. The same app reportedly contains code designed to suppress cookie consent banners, GDPR notices, and paywalls — raising pointed questions about who built it, for whom, and why those capabilities exist at all.
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