Top 7 science stories of 2023 — Interesting Engineering

a situation in which a series of chemical chain reactions cause a battery to overheat and catch fire.

two days after @MichalSabra posted the falsehood.a program that allows approved users to add context to posts that contain inaccuracies or falsehoods.

gaining millions of followers in just a few weeks.troops were attacked in Syria with an image depicting an explosion.X CEO Linda Yaccarino published two dozen non-reply.

The posts we tracked were among some of the most viral posted on the platform.Four seperate Community Notes were approved on the post.

These two notes combined only have around 740.

19 post from regular disinformation spreader X user @DrLoupis attributed a false statement to Turkey president Erdoğan saying the country would intervene in Gaza.Individual users are left to their own devices in separating fact from AI-fabricated fiction.

researchers conducted more samples a month later and found little had changed in regard to the quality of the information provided to users.tech companies have introduced societal risks without having to fear serious consequences.

formerly known as Bing Chat (it has since been renamed to Microsoft Copilot).researchers added their conclusion to their study: These problems will not be fixed by the companies alone.