Three Arizona women have filed a lawsuit against a group of men that alleges they used the women’s photos to make AI porn influencers, then offered online courses showing others how to do it.

DNSid: A durable, governable identifier that binds every AI agent to verifiable ownership, enabling secure interoperability across organizations with a persistent, verifiable identity 75% of businesses say that security, compliance, and auditability are the most… Read more: Identity Digital Announced the Launch of Neutral

Artificial intelligence is transforming our world and financial services are no exception. AI is reshaping the personal banking sector but where does it currently stand on gender parity, transparency and fairness? When someone applies for… Read more: Overcoming the algorithmic gender bias in AI-driven personal finance

Every cloud beat. Every capex forecast rose. That is the two-sentence summary of the biggest earnings day of 2026, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about where Big Tech’s AI infrastructure… Read more: Big Tech just proved AI infrastructure spending works. Then it raised the bill anyway

Australia’s financial regulator has warned financial firms that AI agent governance and assurance practices are poorly governed. The warning comes as banks and superannuation trustees expand AI in internal and customer-facing operations. The Australian Prudential… Read more: AI agent governance takes focus as regulators flag control gaps

AI workloads have outgrown the clouds built for the last era. DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud brings agents, data, inference, cloud primitives, and cloud infrastructure together in one integrated stack, helping builders start fast, scale production workloads,… Read more: DigitalOcean Unveils AI-Native Cloud Built for the Inference Era

Selected as an AI-native Gemini Enterprise partner in AI Solutions and Practices, AuxoAI to accelerate production-grade agentic AI system deployment for global enterprises AuxoAI, a company making AI real for enterprises with production AI systems,… Read more: AuxoAI Partners with Google Cloud to Drive Enterprise AI Transformation

ELAI a leader in Artificial Intelligence, headquartered in Rome, Italy, announces its expansion into North America and the appointment of Kjersten Moody as CEO of North America. Moody is the former Global Chief Data Officer… Read more: ELAI Expands into the U.S., Appoints Kjersten Moody as CEO, North America

The LinkedIn cofounder now has an AI drug discovery startup—and thinks not asking chatbots for medical advice is “bordering on committing malpractice.”

Sequoia Capital leads the round with Andrew Reed joining Parallel’s board Parallel Web Systems, the infrastructure powering how AI agents access and use the open web, today announced that it has raised a $100 million… Read more: Parallel Raises at $2 Bn Valuation to Scale Web Infrastructure for Agents

For decades, psychologists have debated whether the human mind can be explained by one unified theory or must be broken into separate parts like memory and attention. A recent AI model called Centaur seemed to… Read more: This AI knew the answers but didn’t understand the questions

A major review of 217 trials shows that aerobic exercise is the most effective option for managing knee osteoarthritis. Activities like walking, cycling, and swimming outperformed other exercise types in reducing pain and improving movement.… Read more: Scientists reveal the best exercise for knee arthritis pain relief

Scientists have pulled off a first: teleporting a photon’s state between two separate quantum dots. This was done over a 270-meter open-air link, proving quantum information can travel between independent devices. The achievement marks a… Read more: A photon was teleported across 270 meters in stunning quantum breakthrough

Investment in agentic AI is projected to rise 38% in the next year, but organizational readiness – not technology – is the primary barrier to scale Genpact (NYSE: G), an agentic and advanced technology solutions company,… Read more: Genpact-HFS: 92% Say Agentic AI Will Transform Business Operations

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced seismic imaging, they found the Juan de Fuca plate splitting into fragments as it sinks beneath… Read more: Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say

The body’s “killer” T cells don’t just attack—they strike with astonishing precision, forming a tiny, highly organized contact zone that lets them destroy dangerous cells without harming their neighbors. Now, scientists have captured this process… Read more: First-ever 3D view shows how killer T cells destroy cancer

Scientists have finally cracked one of the biggest mysteries in the senses: how smell is organized. By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all—they’re… Read more: A hidden map in your nose could explain how smell works

Alejandro Quintanar/Pexels What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date? We might be about… Read more: Evolvable AI: are we on the brink of the next major evolutionary transition?

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong… Read more: I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

Elon Musk says Tesla’s Optimus robot could launch next year, with production starting in 2026 and a major scale-up planned by 2027. The post Tesla Optimus Robot Launch Timeline Targets 2027 Scale appeared first on… Read more: Tesla Optimus Robot Launch Timeline Targets 2027 Scale

Amazon layoffs are hitting workers across several states as Fresh closures, AI investments, and post-pandemic restructuring reshape its workforce. The post Amazon Layoffs Hit Thousands Across Multiple States as Fresh Stores Close appeared first on… Read more: Amazon Layoffs Hit Thousands Across Multiple States as Fresh Stores Close

US senator holds panel with leading Chinese scientists and warns of risks to society unless new technology is regulated The US senator Bernie Sanders espoused the importance of international cooperation in regulating AI at a… Read more: Bernie Sanders urges international cooperation to halt AI’s ‘runaway train’

Tensions flared on the third day of trial in Musk v. Altman as OpenAI’s lawyers cross-examined Musk.

In today’s hospitals and clinics, a dermatologist may use an artificial intelligence model for classifying skin lesions to assess if the lesion is at risk of developing into a cancer or if it is benign.… Read more: Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models

PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database… Read more: Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless… Read more: OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to “never talk about goblins”

Disney will have the law on its side in its fight against the unusual broadcast license review ordered yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, legal experts say. In 1996, Congress made it a lot harder… Read more: ABC can beat Trump FCC’s license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight

Robinhood fixed an account-creation flaw that hackers abused to send convincing phishing emails from its own system to some users over the weekend. The post Hackers Abuse Robinhood Signup Process to Deliver Phishing Emails appeared… Read more: Hackers Abuse Robinhood Signup Process to Deliver Phishing Emails

Amazon is bringing OpenAI’s models and Codex to AWS after Microsoft’s shift away from exclusivity, giving cloud customers more ways to use AI tools. The post AWS to Resell OpenAI Products After Microsoft Loses Exclusive… Read more: AWS to Resell OpenAI Products After Microsoft Loses Exclusive License

Actor and presenter broke his hip, right leg, pelvis and ribs when he gave a talk at CogX festival at O2 Arena in 2023 Stephen Fry is suing two companies that organised a tech conference… Read more: Stephen Fry sues tech conference organisers for £100,000 over fall from stage

Researchers show scammers are using AI-manipulated footage of celebrity interviews to trick users into sharing their personal data.

“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.

Yesterday, OpenAI published a balmy blog post on its “commitment to community safety.” Taking a reassuring tone, the post walks readers through a series of unobjectionable commitments. It declares that “mass shootings, threats against public… Read more: OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post

SAS expands Viya with governed AI agents, copilots, and new governance tools aimed at helping enterprises manage shadow AI and build trust in automation. The post SAS Launches AI Governance Tools to Tame Agentic AI… Read more: SAS Launches AI Governance Tools to Tame Agentic AI in the Enterprise

Apple reportedly plans new AI editing tools for Photos in iOS 27, including image expansion, spatial photo reframing, and smarter enhancements. The post New Apple Rumor: iOS 27 Could Add AI Editing Tools to Photos… Read more: New Apple Rumor: iOS 27 Could Add AI Editing Tools to Photos

Motorola is crazy about foldables. With each passing year, the company has beefed up its folding phone lineup, and in 2026, there will be four devices launching on May 21. At the top end is… Read more: Motorola reveals 2026 Razr lineup with modest upgrades and higher prices

A data center developer has paused all Middle East project investments after one of its facilities was damaged by an Iranian missile or drone attack. The decision comes as the Iran war is forcing Silicon… Read more: Drone strikes on data centers spook Big Tech, halting Middle East projects

In an order denying Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial, a judge accused the disgraced FTX founder of wasting precious court resources on wild conspiracies. To the judge, the motion seemed like a last-ditch… Read more: New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says

Six months after its launch, research firm Antenna estimates that the Howdy streaming service has more than 1 million subscribers. Roku debuted Howdy in August. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service is $3 per month and… Read more: Howdy’s dated $3/month ad-free streaming service said to have 1M subscribers

Altman faces off against Musk, his OpenAI co-founder, in second day of high-stakes lawsuit After a dramatic first day of opening statements and testimony from Elon Musk in his case against Sam Altman and OpenAI,… Read more: Sam Altman tries to fend off Elon Musk’s attacks on OpenAI in court battle

There’s a specter haunting the United States. Americans may not have noticed it, but it’s sure noticed them: the emergent panopticon of AI facial-recognition cameras, automatic license plate readers, AI smart glasses, police fusion centers,… Read more: AI Spy Cameras Suddenly Blanketing America

With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.

I/ONX High Performance Compute (HPC), a leading provider of heterogeneous AI systems, today announced the appointment of Steven Eliuk as Chief Executive Officer. Eliuk joins I/ONX to lead the commercial scaling of Symphony, a platform designed to eliminate… Read more: I/ONX Appoints Former IBM Executive Steven Eliuk as CEO

Even before the Trump administration went to war against DEI and attempts to address historical discrimination, diversity efforts in the US were controversial. A pivotal moment came in 2023, when the Supreme Court ruled that… Read more: Professional school grads from diverse classes get higher salaries

Kiji Privacy Proxy enables enterprises to harness external AI services without exposing personally identifiable information, removing a critical barrier to AI adoption With enterprises racing to operationalize generative AI, a new and urgent question has… Read more: Dataiku Launches Open-Source Privacy Layer

Whether you’re a gamer trying to play recent AAA titles at high resolutions and maxed-out settings or an AI enthusiast trying to run models locally, we’ve reached the point where a GPU with 8GB of… Read more: Nvidia fixes the 8GB RAM problem with one of its GPUs—if you can pay for it

Healthcare and life sciences leaders are advancing AI with caution—fragmentation, capability gaps, and execution challenges are slowing enterprise-wide impact AI is already embedded across healthcare and life sciences. Most organizations are deploying it, and confidence… Read more: HTEC Research: Only 1 in 3 Healthcare Organizations is Ready to Scale AI

Days before thousands of researchers, academics, and human rights experts were set to convene in Lusaka, Zambia, the government of Zambia announced it was postponing RightsCon, one the largest and most important digital human rights… Read more: World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly ‘Postponed’

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that ChatGPT maker OpenAI had missed its internal targets of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year — and that’s… Read more: Uninstalls of ChatGPT Are Spiking at the Worst Time Imaginable for OpenAI

A controversial bill in Colorado that would have undone some repair protections in the state has failed. The bill had been the target of right-to-repair advocates, who saw it as a bellwether for how tech… Read more: Attempt to repeal Colorado’s right-to-repair law fails

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to expand its fleet of high-powered surveillance drones, and other parts of the Department of the Homeland Security (DHS) may buy their… Read more: DHS Plans to Buy More Predator-Style Drones

Since its inception just eight months ago, Aranya’s flagship product has already attracted prominent names in the space, a testament to both the quality of the solution and the gap it fills in the market.… Read more: Aranya Debuts AI Inference Platform, Partners Across 1,700 GPUs

PolicyGuard gives enterprises complete control over how AI policy is defined and enforced across agents, models, and applications, with explainable, audit-ready decisions. Virtue AI today announced PolicyGuard, a system that enables enterprises to quickly and easily define,… Read more: Virtue AI Announced the Launch of PolicyGuard

A man in Colorado might not have done anything wrong, but that hasn’t stopped the AI surveillance state from casting him into a dystopian “Groundhog Day” of police harassment. Kyle Dausman, a resident of Cherry… Read more: Man Trapped in Dystopian Nightmare Thanks to AI Surveillance Cameras Flagging His Every Move

Chatbots trained to respond warmly give poorer answers and worse health advice, researchers say The rush to make AI chatbots more friendly has a troubling downside, researchers say. The warm personas make them prone to… Read more: Making AI chatbots more friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories, study finds

Summit Art Creations/Shutterstock AI doesn’t have a boss. It doesn’t really care about rules. And most of us don’t have any say over what it will do next. Yet the technology is all around us,… Read more: Why the world needs the UN to keep an eye on AI

AI companies have swept customers onto the bandwagon by offering cheap and even free access to their AI models. But the bill is finally coming due, and the results could be ugly. Earlier this month,… Read more: Dark Cloud Gathers as Bill Comes Due for AI Industry

Astronomers say the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 will strike the Moon later this summer, likely on the near side of the Moon. Bill Gray, who writes the… Read more: A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound

Due to recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), it’s now possible to digitally “revive” dead people and interact with them. These “resurrections” are sometimes voluntary and planned, but other times, they happen without the consent… Read more: AI ‘deadbots’ can fuel pathological grief and affect how we deal with death

Getting stalled enterprise AI rollouts in the EMEA region moving again will require CIOs to aggressively audit their systems. Over the past 18 months, AI deployments across Europe advanced far beyond initial testing. Companies poured… Read more: IDC: How EMEA CIOs can jumpstart AI rollouts

This week, Jason explains the conspiracy theory circulating behind a trippy stock image that went viral after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—was it sent here by a time traveler? (Spoiler: No.) Then Sam unpacks what’s… Read more: Podcast: How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory

Built on Constructive’s agent-first infrastructure, this open-source Postgres database provides AI agents with persistent memory, structured knowledge, and hybrid retrieval — installable in one command. Constructive, the company behind open-source Postgres and JavaScript infrastructure with… Read more: Constructive Open Sources Agentic DB, the Postgres Memory Layer for AI Agents

Last week Apple fixed an issue that let the FBI forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app had been deleted, because copies of those messages were stored… Read more: Apple Fixes Bug That Let FBI Extract Deleted Signal Messages After 404 Media Coverage

Allows users to ask questions in natural language to quickly find answers through an embedded chat interface Helps teams save time by summarizing and surfacing key details from product documents Applies AI to existing Windchill… Read more: PTC Announced the Launch of Windchill AI Assistant

As organizations scale AI adoption, traditional monitoring tools are struggling to keep up. Long-lived connections, elevated error rates, and complex real-time pipelines require observability built for how AI systems actually behave. But many teams struggle… Read more: Powering reliable AI agent creation with observability

New experiments suggest that freezing and thawing on early Earth may have helped primitive cell-like structures grow and evolve. Tiny lipid bubbles behaved very differently depending on their membrane makeup—some fused into larger compartments and… Read more: Scientists just found a chilling way life may have begun

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.5-Pro under an MIT license a few days ago, and the response has been quietly enthusiastic on r/LocalLLaMA but barely registered on other places like Hacker News. The phone-manufacturer-makes-LLM angle keeps tripping people… Read more: Xiaomi just open-sourced a 1T-parameter model and almost nobody noticed

John Oliver just did what he did best: demolished a harmful industry piece by piece. On the latest episode of his HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver tore into AI chatbots, those oh-so helpful tools… Read more: John Oliver Just Took the AI Industry Behind a Shed and Beat It With a Pipe Wrench

It has been a bad six weeks for security firm Checmarx. Over the past 40 days, it has been the victim of at least one supply-chain attack that delivered malware to customers on two separate… Read more: Why a recent supply-chain attack singled out security firms Checkmarx and Bitwarden

Explaining science is one thing. Practicing it involves code, errors, iteration, and persistence across long workflows, the kind that usually require a few retries before things click, and occasionally a moment of wondering why step… Read more: Is this the rise of the AI scientist?

Rise, the fan-created, flown-to-the-moon plush toy that served as the Artemis II crew’s zero-g indicator and mascot, is now available as a NASA-approved collectible. Its sales will benefit the agency’s employee morale activities. “Perfect for… Read more: Check your gravity with NASA’s Artemis II zero-g indicator

OpenAI could have prevented one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history, a string of seven lawsuits filed Wednesday in a California court alleged. Ultimately, the AI company overruled recommendations from its internal safety… Read more: School-shooting lawsuits accuse OpenAI of hiding violent ChatGPT users

Seven families — the first wave of dozens, lawyers say — are suing OpenAI, alleging that the company failed to provide Canadian authorities with information that could’ve prevented a horrific school shooting in the rural mining town… Read more: OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre

The following is a joint announcement by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and IBM. IBM and MIT today announced the launch of the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, advancing their long-standing collaboration to shape the… Read more: The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing

From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts?

Scientists have uncovered the true boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming region using stellar “age mapping.” They found a telltale U-shaped pattern showing that star formation drops sharply around 35,000–40,000 light-years from the center. Beyond… Read more: Scientists just found the Milky Way’s edge and it’s closer than expected

A spectacular cosmic event nicknamed “SN Winny” could help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: how fast the universe is expanding. This rare superluminous supernova, located 10 billion light-years away, appears five times in the… Read more: A one-in-a-million supernova seen five times could reveal the Universe’s true speed

A massive prehistoric snake discovered in India may rank among the largest ever to slither across Earth. Named Vasuki indicus, this ancient giant lived around 47 million years ago and is estimated to have stretched… Read more: 50-foot ancient snake discovered in India may be one of the largest ever

At WIRED Health, British surgeon Ara Darzi said AI is set to transform the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant infections. But a lack of incentives means innovation may not reach patients.

To test the safety and security of AI, hackers have to trick large language models into breaking their own rules. It requires ingenuity and manipulation – and can come at a deep emotional cost A… Read more: Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’

OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 on April 23 as what it calls “a new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents,” and the framing is deliberate. OpenAI says it’s the most capable agentic AI model… Read more: GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s most capable agentic AI model yet–at twice the API price

Tolga Akmen/ POOL EPA, Alex Brandon AP, The Conversation There was a time when Elon Musk and Sam Altman were friends. But the two tech billionaires are now embroiled in a bitter legal battle in… Read more: Elon Musk vs Sam Altman: how the legal battle of the tech billionaires could shape the future of AI

An artisanal miner holds a cobalt stone at a mine near Kolwezi, Congo, in 2022. About 20,000 people work there among toxic materials. Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images There is a troubling contradiction at the… Read more: The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating ‘sacrifice zones’ that harm water and health of world’s poor

Fabrice Coffrini / Getty Images Earlier this month, multibillion-dollar US tech company Palantir posted on X a summary of its chief executive Alex Karp’s recent book, the portentously titled The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft… Read more: Supervillain or Cicero? Why Palantir’s manifesto has such sinister vibes

Trump is volatile, capricious and unreasonable – but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manage Donald Trump is not impressed by soft power. He respects… Read more: In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants | Rafael Behr

A new method developed by MIT researchers can accelerate a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence training method by about 81 percent. This advance could enable a wider array of resource-constrained edge devices, like sensors and smartwatches, to… Read more: Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices

Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talent Last July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version… Read more: ‘It will never cover what’s authentic’: African music industry weighs up AI risks and rewards

Walt Disney Company says technology at California theme park will prevent fraud and streamline re-entry Disneyland, the beloved California adventure park, has outfitted some entrance lanes with facial recognition technology, a move its parent company… Read more: A whole new world: Disneyland adds facial recognition to some entrance lanes

In my misspent youth, I once worked a summer job as a waiter at Shoney’s. It is an experience that I do not recommend. But it did teach me two valuable things: 1) How not… Read more: Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.

The judge also warned Musk and Sam Altman to curb their “propensity to use social media to make things worse outside the courtroom” after both sides traded attacks online.

In January 2026, during the height of protests against immigration raids in Minneapolis, federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good. Before even gathering all the facts, the Department of Homeland Security labeled the mother… Read more: Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles

The Federal Communications Commission today opened an unusual review of ABC’s broadcast licenses, one day after President Trump and the first lady called on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel over a recent joke in which… Read more: FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady

Gorodenkoff/Getty Images If you suffer from information overload, or are unsure what to trust online, you’re not alone. Australians are increasingly disengaging from traditional news, turning instead to social media, influencers and – more recently… Read more: AI decides what we see online. It’s time digital platforms tell us exactly how they do it

A 74-year-old man went to an emergency department in Florida with rapidly rotting limbs after jumping into the waters off Florida’s Gulf Coast. Just three days earlier, the man was otherwise healthy and active on… Read more: Flesh-eating bacteria devour man’s arm and leg in just three days

Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport—part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers have surged in… Read more: Humanoid robots start sorting luggage in Tokyo airport test amid labor shortage

Police officers across the US are using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to stalk personal romantic interests. According to an analysis by the Institute for Justice, there are already 14 cases across the country where… Read more: Police Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk Women

More than 700 people working for a Meta contractor in Ireland are at risk of losing their jobs, documents show.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s unsettling blockchain-based side gig, a startup with the uninspired name “World,” has left us scratching our heads for years. The startup claims that gazing into its spherical “Orb” iris scanner will… Read more: Sam Altman Caught in What May Be His Most Spectacular Lie Yet

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. If you’ve ever visited a haunted house or a paranormal hotspot,… Read more: Scientists Investigated a Frequency Linked to ‘Paranormal’ Encounters. The Results Were Unsettling.