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Why imperfection could be key to Turing patterns in nature
Many Turing mechanism models yield too-perfect patterns; varying cell sizes vastly improves the results.
Melissa set to be the strongest hurricane to ever strike Jamaica
Storm reached sustained winds of 160 mph on Monday morning.
New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports
Software provider AppZen said fake AI receipts accounted for about 14% of fraud attempts.
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It's still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.
Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change
Marine mammals are being forced into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn.
Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem
In new research, AI models show a troubling tendency to agree with whatever the user says.
A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions
A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon's sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.
Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital
The 61-year-old had wounds all over, a bacterial infection, and needed intensive care.
Clinical trial of a technique that could give everyone the best antibodies
If we ID the DNA for a great antibody, anyone can now make it.
The Android-powered Boox Palma 2 Pro fits in your pocket, but it’s not a phone
This e-reader has a color screen and 5G.
Tech billionaires are now shaping the militarization of American cities
Money means access to power-and tech has plenty of money.
Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny
The new mode added in the latest update will speed and weave through traffic.
EU accuses Meta of violating content rules in move that could anger Trump
EU alleges Facebook and Instagram make it too hard to report illegal content.
Microsoft’s Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships
"It looks like you're trying to find a friend. Would you like help?"
Rivian is settling $250 million lawsuit to focus on next year’s R2 EV
Investors sued Rivian claiming it knew prices had to rise after its IPO.
Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing
A handful of bat species hunt birds, and new sensor data tells us how.
DNA analysis reveals likely pathogens that killed Napoleon’s army
Microbial DNA suggests troops suffered from paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever, among other diseases.
This browser claims “perfect privacies protection,” but it acts like malware
Researchers note links to Asia's booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.
Satellite shows what’s really happening at the East Wing of the White House
"Now it looks like the White House is physically being destroyed."
Rocket Report: China tests Falcon 9 lookalike; NASA’s Moon rocket fully stacked
A South Korean rocket startup will soon make its first attempt to reach low-Earth orbit.
With new acquisition, OpenAI signals plans to integrate deeper into the OS
The acquired firm was working on a tool to control macOS directly with AI.
Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results
Scraper accused of stealing Reddit content "shocked" by lawsuit.
Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”
Models trained on short, popular, and/or "superficial" tweets perform worse on benchmarks.
Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit
Fossil beds in New Mexico show diverse species present in the late Cretaceous.
An NIH director joins MAHA, gets replaced by JD Vance’s close friend
The NTP produced controversial studies on cellphone radiation and fluoride.
Microsoft makes Copilot “human-centered” with a ‘90s-style animated assistant
"Mico" literally tries to put a face on Microsoft's chatbot-turned-assistant.
The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters
Europeans weren't the first people to collect fossils in Australia.
CS2 item market loses nearly $2B in value overnight due to “trade up” update
Once rare $14K knife now sells for $7K, some common guns jump from $10 to over $100.
Great hybrid V6, lousy HMI: Three days with a Ferrari 296 GTB
Three days with a car revealed its character in more ways than one.
Trump eyes government control of quantum computing firms with Intel-like deals
Some quantum computing firms seem optimistic about Trump's proposed deals.
Reports suggest Apple is already pulling back on the iPhone Air
New phone design compromises on camera and battery to achieve a lighter weight.
An outcast faces a deadly alien world in Predator: Badlands trailer
"The ways of your kind are ones of violence. Either you are hunted or you become the hunter."
Porsche does U-turn on electric vehicles, will focus on gas engines
China weakness, US tariffs, and disappointing uptake of battery vehicles lurk in background.
Texas lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian
"This is the dumbest plan I've ever heard in nearly five years in the United States Senate."
California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime
"All of the pieces that are required to make it viable exist."
We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened
From scanning emails to building fansites, Atlas can ably automate some web-based tasks.
Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps
At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure.
Tesla profits fall 37% in Q3 despite healthy sales
A loss of regulatory credits and increased expenses didn't help.
This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I’ve ever seen
Don't even apply if you're not a Tier 1 "A-player."
General Motors will integrate AI into its cars, plus new hands-free assist
Do we want LLMs in our cars? GM thinks we do.
Health plan enrollment period is set to be horrifying for everyone this year
Some marketplace premiums could more than double. Employer-based plans are soaring.
When sycophancy and bias meet medicine
Biased, eager-to-please models threaten health research replicability and trust.
SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers
Starlink not allowed in Myanmar, but scammers reportedly use it "on a huge scale."
Samsung Galaxy XR is the first Android XR headset, now on sale for $1,800
It may not be as spendy as the Vision Pro, but $1,800 is still a lot.
AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
Would be great if my bed wasn't stuck in an inclined position ..."
Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer
An approach it calls "quantum echoes" takes 13,000 times longer on a supercomputer.
Jaguar Land Rover looking at $2.5 billion price tag from crippling cyberattack
Incident was likely the most economically damaging cyber event in UK history.
FDA slows down on drug reviews, approvals amid Trump admin chaos
The ongoing shutdown also means no new drug submissions are being accepted.
It’s troll vs. troll in Netflix’s Troll 2 trailer
Norwegian director Roar Uthaug's sequel to his 2022 film Troll knows to not take itself too seriously.
Elon Musk just declared war on NASA’s acting administrator, apparently
"Sean said that NASA might benefit from being part of the Cabinet."
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