Yook JiHun

A hacker in the hallway could steal an AI model through a concrete wall. Image: Shutterstock The word ‘hacker’ comes loaded with a cliched image: A hoodie-clad loner hunched over a keyboard in a room lined with monitors. The stereotype stuck for a reason. And for decades hacking really did come down to how well a hacker could operate a computer. That trend might change. The next generation of attacker may have more in common with a cat burglar than a code monkey.

Iceberg underwater, Antarctica. Image: Michael Valos / Getty Image The Antarctic sea, where glaciers drift across the surface. What kind of world lies 1,300 meters below the surface? Scientists have now succeeded in directly observing a realm that had previously been inferred rather than seen. There, hot fluid surged upward from the seafloor, and a unique marine ecosystem unlike any previously documented was thriving.

Image: Malte Mueller / Getty Images Stories of human-like dolls yearning to become real people turn up everywhere. Pinocchio wants to be a real boy. The robot child in Spielberg’s A.I. wants to be loved like a human son. The story keeps getting retold because people assume the trajectory is obvious. Build something that looks human, keep improving it, and one day the copy becomes indistinguishable from the original. What’s happening on the ground is stranger than that.