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A Woman’s Campaign To Destroy a Family’s Reputation

Guy Babcock discovered the power of a lone person to destroy countless reputations.

By Kashmir Hill for The New York Times Photo Credit: NYTimes

Guy Babcock vividly remembers the chilly Saturday evening when he discovered the stain on his family. It was September 2018.

He, his wife and their young son had just returned to their home in Beckley, an English village outside of Oxford. Mr. Babcock still had his coat on when he got a frantic call from his father.

“I don’t want to upset you, but there is some bad stuff on the internet,” Mr. Babcock recalled his father saying.

Someone, somewhere, had written terrible things online about Guy Babcock and his brother, and members of their 86-year-old father’s social club had alerted him.

Mr. Babcock, a software engineer, got off the phone and Googled himself.

The results were full of posts on strange sites accusing him of being a thief, a fraudster and a pedophile. The posts listed Mr. Babcock’s contact details and employer.

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Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

National Security Commission concluded that Congress should at least consider giving killer robots or artificial intelligence systems a chance.

By DAN ROBITZSKI for Futurism & The Byte Image: TriStar / via YouTube

Tasked with deciding whether the United States military should be able develop autonomous killer robots capable of using deadly force, a congressional advisory panel decided that the government should keep its options open.

Arguing that an effective AI might take actions that result in fewer casualties than human soldiers, committee vice chairman and former deputy secretary of defense Robert Work said that “it is a moral imperative to at least pursue this hypothesis,” according to Reuters.

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Diamond Withstands 5x The Pressure at Earth’s Core

Diamond holds up under pressure, maintaining its structure in laser experiments that reached more than five times the pressure at the center of the Earth.

By Emily Conover at ScienceNews Image: MACIEJ TOPOROWICZ, NYC/GETTY IMAGES

Diamond stands up to a squeeze. Surprisingly, the material’s structure persists even when compressed to 2 trillion pascals, more than five times the pressure in Earth’s core, scientists report January 27 in Nature.

The study suggests that diamond is metastable at high pressures: It retains its structure despite the fact that other, more stable structures are expected to dominate under such conditions.

Studying diamond’s quirks at extreme pressures could help reveal the inner workings of carbon-rich exoplanets (SN: 7/16/14).

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