The first-ever Enhanced Games — widely dubbed the “Steroid Olympics” — take place Sunday in Las Vegas, where elite sprinters, swimmers and weightlifters will vie for world records while taking banned performance-enhancing drugs. Keywords for this article Source link
Subscribers can watch the full recording now. World models are also one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now, our list of what’s really worth your attention in the busy, buzzy world of AI. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Trump has postponed an AI order due to overregulation fearsHe said he was concerned it would be “a blocker.” (CNBC)+ And that he wants to preserve the US’s lead over China in AI. (Reuters $)+ A source said the delay was because he “just hates regulation.” (Axios)+ A war over regulation is coming to America. (MIT Technology Review) 2 OpenClaw’s engineers warn that a “vibe-coded slop” crisis is comingThey say AI is flooding the world with bad and even dangerous code. (WSJ $)+ Now vibe coding is coming to your phone, too. (The Verge)+ What exactly is vibe coding? (MIT Technology Review) 3 SpaceX has called off the launch of a new Starship prototypeEngineers discovered a ground system glitch. (CNBC)+ …
Rafal Skrzypczak keeps his drugs in a cupboard above his kitchen sink as if they were teabags. He retrieves the vials and needles for his twice-weekly fix: 250 milligrams of a steroid called nandrolone phenylpropionate and 250mg of testosterone. “Without this guy on YouTube, I would probably be too scared to do it on my own,” he says, before pulling down his tracksuit bottoms and injecting himself twice in the glute. Skrzypczak is not a bodybuilder or elite athlete, but a Polish factory worker in Yorkshire who wants to look his best. For months, I have investigated the boom in the use of anabolic steroids, peptides and other performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) for ITV’s Tonight programme. I’ve spoken to users, dealers and experts warning against people using these drugs to achieve their dream body. Antoine Allen has been investigating steroid use across the country Supplied Skrzypczak says he went from feeling exhausted all the time to being full of energy. He now finds it a joy to pump weights. He also gets regular check-ups with …
When I tell people that a drug addiction nearly killed my dad, I know what most of them are thinking. Heroin. Crack. Maybe meth or ket. Those substances that steal your soul and slowly wreak havoc on your body. They’re imagining Trainspotting; too-skinny frames and protruding hip bones, the physical effects of addiction that are impossible to miss. But that isn’t how it played out in my family. I was 13 years old when my parents’ marriage fell apart, disintegrating suddenly and seemingly without warning over a few grey November weeks. When I tell people that my mum, my brother and I had no idea my dad was addicted to drugs until after he left us, I can see the bewilderment in their eyes. How could you not have noticed? I ask myself the same question all the time. My dad’s drug addiction didn’t ravage his body. Instead, it built it. As a 17st 7lb powerlifter, he looked to my childhood eyes like something of an adonis. Friends fancied him. Boys in my class coveted …
