Reality: and Now the Bad News

Published: Feb. 3, 2018, 12:30 a.m.

b"Phil and Stephen look at some dangerous possibilities that arise when the lines between reality and illusion are blurred.\\n\\nReddit User Outperforms Disney With AI-generated Princess Leia\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nI Made My Shed the Number One Restaurant on TripAdvisor\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nBritish 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be head of CIA, court hears\\n\\nA 15-year-old gained access to plans for intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be the head of the CIA to gain access to his computers, a court has heard.\\n\\nFrom the bedroom of the Leicestershire home he shared with his mother, Kane Gamble used \\u201csocial engineering\\u201d \\u2013 where a person builds up a picture of information and uses it manipulate others into handing over more \\u2013 to access the personal and work accounts of some of America's most powerful spy chiefs .\\n\\nMagic Mushrooms May Alter How You Feel About Nature (and Politics)\\n\\nMonths after receiving psilocybin treatments for depression, patients report feeling more connected with nature and experience a shift away from authoritarian political views, researchers report.\\n\\nGEEKOUT\\n\\nNew Dan Brown novel \\u201cOrigin\\u201d has AI character Winston\\n\\nWT 399-711\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\\n\\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License\\n\\ncreativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"