
Sky News - 1 day 5 hours ago
Around 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and holiday resorts in southwestern France as a wildfire raged near the popular tourist coastal town of Lege Cap-Ferret.

NY Post - 1 day 5 hours ago
"My name is Eric Leroy Adams, I am Jesus Christ," he declares in the phony AI footage."I'm gonna give you a new Libertarian constitution."...

The New Yorker - 1 day 5 hours ago
In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York's North County. He's been in jail upstate ever since.

NPR - 1 day 7 hours ago
NPR's A Martinez asks Nate Soares of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute how two experimental OpenAI models hacked their way onto the internet and into another AI company, without instruction.

NBC News - 1 day 7 hours ago
The bipartisan effort addresses claims from American tech companies and officials that Chinese companies are "distilling" frontier U.S. models.

Newser - 1 day 9 hours ago
Google's latest run-in with Europe comes with a 10-digit price tag, as well as a fresh test for trans-Atlantic trade. EU regulators on Thursday fined the search giant $1 billion, saying it abused its dominance by giving its own services prime placement in search results while pushing rivals down the...

Newser - 1 day 9 hours ago
Waymo's driverless cars just got a notable safety nod: An independent analysis found the company's robotaxis crash less often than human drivers in four major US cities, reports Axios . The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reviewed incidents in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin, and concluded that Waymo vehicles...

Air and Space - 1 day 11 hours ago
In two incidents documented in Mexico's Gulf of California, orcas worked together to blast sunfish into smithereens after they had killed the enormous animals...

NBC News - 1 day 13 hours ago
'Popcorn brain' is when someone jumps from one task to another, like watching a movie and then scrolling on Instagram, but is different from ADHD. NBC News' Dr. Akshay Syal talks about who may have it and how to treat it.

Newser - 1 day 14 hours ago
A closely watched lawsuit accusing Meta of fueling a Florida teen's mental health struggles with its addictive platform has ended before it began. Days ahead of the trial's planned start in Los Angeles, the 15-year-old plaintiff, identified as RKC, dropped his remaining claims against Meta, his lawyers said Wednesday, per...

Sky News - 1 day 17 hours ago
Weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to an increased risk of hair loss, according to researchers.

GeekSpin - 1 day 17 hours ago
Have you ever told your boss “Yep, almost done!” while frantically trying to figure out how to do the assignment? If your answer is yes, then you and a million other people are in good company. As it turns out, our future AI overlords are doing the exact same thing. Only this time they are […] Read the original article here: AI models get caught cheating and lying to finish tasks...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 19 hours ago
Our testers love EcoFlow's portable power stations for camping and home backups, but how are the brand's personal power banks?...

The Atlantic - 1 day 20 hours ago
Ruthless efficiency has its drawbacks.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 21 hours 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...

Air and Space - 2 days 53 min ago
People brought large avocado seeds from South America to Central America, kicking off a burst of diversity for the fruit...

Air and Space - 2 days 2 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...

The Conversation - 2 days 3 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.

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 5 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.