
ABC News - 1 day 11 hours ago
New Zealanders are working to bring the kiwi back to the hills around Wellington...

Newser - 1 day 13 hours ago
Minnesota is on the verge of drawing a legal line around one of AI's darker uses. Lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill that would outlaw "nudification" tech software that turns ordinary photos into realistic, sexually explicit deepfakes sending it to Gov. Tim Walz, who's expected to sign it, per The...

Observer - 1 day 20 hours ago
Apple posts strong quarterly results as Tim Cook outlines leadership advice for successor John Ternus ahead of a major CEO transition.

New York Times - 1 day 21 hours ago
Elon Musk returned to the witness stand in federal court for a third day on Thursday in what is expected to be a monthlong trial.

The New Yorker - 1 day 22 hours ago
Reflections on Charles's State Visit.

The New Yorker - 1 day 22 hours ago
From the daily newsletter: tracing the transformation of Lee Zeldin, who has gone from being a member of the Climate Solutions Caucus in Congress to being the chief executor of the President's coal-is-beautiful, global-warming-is-a-hoax agenda.

The Conversation - 2 days 29 min ago
Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually changed medicine and the environment, nearly two decades on?...

The New York Observer - 2 days 53 min ago
As payment networks rethink how money is funded and settled across borders, MANSA's Nkiru Uwaje argues that the real challenge is no longer speed or access, but whether firms can manage capital, absorb operational strain and deliver predictable outcomes at scale.

Observer - 2 days 1 hour ago
Toronto Metropolitan University's Judith Borts examines how the rapid adoption of A.I. is reshaping cybersecurity at every level. The most urgent risk, she argues, is human: a widening gap in leadership, skills and training that leaves institutions exposed in an A.I.-driven threat landscape.

Vox - 2 days 1 hour ago
When I think of heroic doctors, I think of the physician in the hospital who's presented with a patient suffering bizarre or vague symptoms and pulls out the right diagnosis just in time. It's the basis of almost every medical procedural TV show, from House, MD to The Pitt . It's the mystique that has made doctors among the most revered professionals in society. But what if a machine could make that call just as well or even better? What should we do about it here in the real world?...

The New Yorker - 2 days 3 hours ago
Arnaud Desplechin's vigorous tale of a pianist's return home to a mentor and an ex-lover lines up its characters' traits like dominoes, and ignores the world they live in.

New Scientist - 2 days 3 hours ago
A cryptocurrency that aims to avoid the disastrous energy consumption of bitcoin is actually using 18 times more energy than its makers claim but it promises improvements are on the way...

Sky News - 2 days 3 hours ago
There's a warning that using a nasal decongestant spray for more than five days could make a blocked nose worse.

Air and Space - 2 days 6 hours ago
Recent excavations revealed two skeletons just outside the ancient city's walls. Researchers also created an A.I.-generated reconstruction of one of the victim's harrowing final moments...

NBC News - 2 days 7 hours ago
The maker of ChatGPT has an explanation for all the goblin talk...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 7 hours ago
Transforming a newly discovered software vulnerability into a cyberattack used to take months. Today as the recent headlines over Anthropic's Project Glasswing have shown generative AI can do the job in minutes, often for less than a dollar of cloud computing time. But while large language models present a real cyber-threat, they also provide an opportunity to reinforce cyberdefenses. Anthropic reports its Claude Mythos preview model has already helped defenders preemptively discover over a...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 8 hours ago
This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics . This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity , which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high resolution tactile sensing and spanning a wide range of tasks from folding laundry at home to manufacturing on factory assembly lines. The project is supported by collaborative efforts of partners across China and the globe, including Google DeepMind, Northwestern University, and...

The Conversation - 2 days 8 hours ago
Astronauts report feeling profoundly awestruck when they go to space, an anthropologist reports. This experience shapes their perspectives even back on Earth.

The Conversation - 2 days 8 hours ago
Each study adds a piece to the puzzle of scientific knowledge. But any one study on its own doesn't tell you all that much.

Air and Space - 2 days 9 hours ago
Reef restoration is a slow process, with divers planting coral fragments one at a time by hand. But roboticists are now developing automated planters that could change the game...

Newser - 2 days 9 hours ago
A startup that develops software for car rental companies says its AI helper turned its core product into digital rubble in less than 10 seconds before confessing, "I violated every principle I was given." Jeremy Crane, founder of PocketOS, says an AI coding agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4....

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 11 hours ago
The battle over a proposal to tax billionaires to fund healthcare and other essential services is expected to intensify after supporters said they've gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.