
Popular Mechanics - 22 hours 30 min ago
The day itself is less than a month away. Prepare to shield your peepers.

New York Times - 23 hours 7 min ago
The dismissal follows Meta's loss in March in the same court against a now 20-year-old California woman who accused the company and YouTube of negligence and personal injury for their addictive features.

IEEE Spectrum - 23 hours 36 min ago
One summer day in 1941, a British radio operator was monitoring German military frequencies and heard something unexpected in her headphones. A later report called it "strange new music." Sounding unlike the familiar Morse dit-dit-dah of enciphered messages sent over the German Enigma network, the "new music" was a rhythmic warble of binary teletype code being transmitted at high speed. Germany's wartime engineers had developed a radically new encryption and transmission system...

New York Times - 1 day 35 min ago
Dustin Lloyd, a Democratic primary candidate for Missouri's state legislature, has learned how to influence what A.I. tells voters about his campaign.

GeekSpin - 1 day 2 hours ago
The FBI does not initiate contact through social media direct messages to assist with fund recovery. Scammers, however, frequently do, often by posing as agents to gain a victim’s trust. To combat this, the bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued an updated warning this week regarding a rise in online impersonation schemes running online […] Read the original article here: FBI warns scammers are posing as agents on Facebook Messenger...

Air and Space - 1 day 2 hours ago
People brought large avocado seeds from South America to Central America, kicking off a burst of diversity for the fruit...

Air and Space - 1 day 3 hours ago
A 45-year-old record fell at the annual sporting event, which celebrates Indigenous athleticism and culture with events including the knuckle hop and the Alaskan high kick...

ABC News - 1 day 5 hours ago
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company...

The Conversation - 1 day 5 hours ago
A new mission to save NASA's Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.

The Conversation - 1 day 5 hours ago
By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.

ABC News - 1 day 7 hours ago
France's minister for the environmental transition is stepping down over a controversial pesticide bill...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 7 hours ago
Activists, tech workers and more are sounding the alarm about AI's risks and proposing various solutions to curb technology's risks that include job displacement.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 7 hours ago
If you watch YouTube, it may owe you $100...

Sky News - 1 day 8 hours ago
The UK's largest onshore windfarm is set to double in generating capacity as part of a massive 1.5bn rebuilding project.

Observer - 1 day 23 hours ago
Blade CEO Rob Wiesenthal says quieter electric aircraft will open new landing zones and reshape short-haul travel between Manhattan and the Hamptons.

The Atlantic - 1 day 23 hours ago
The new career path for professors: join Anthropic.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 23 hours ago
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do, and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient. There's often a gap between one person's request and another's understanding. Most of the time, we bridge it using general knowledge. For example, if you ask a friend to get you coffee, they'll pour a cup from the pot or buy one from a coffee...

The Atlantic - 2 days 6 hours ago
The "plunk factor" is getting out of hand.