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Built-in safeguards might stop AI from designing bioweaponsdecline (science.org)

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[flagged] Canadians give Liberals 4th mandate as Carney leads party to minority win (ctvnews.ca)

a week ago | pseudolus | ctvnews.ca | frontpage

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Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists (theregister.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | best

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New Yorkers adjust to first new transit map in 50 years (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Starlink (cnbc.com)

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Ultra-processed foods may be linked to early death (bbc.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near our solar system (phys.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer – new study (theconversation.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | theconversation.com | newest

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Many cultures borrow. Japan transforms (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Competing theory to 'dark energy' suggests the universe has different time zones (cbc.ca)

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China's Huawei develops new AI chip, seeking to match Nvidia, WSJ reports (reuters.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | reuters.com | newest

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Mesmerizing Interlocking Geometric Patterns Produced with Japanese Woodworking (smithsonianmag.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | best

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Tony Hsieh's Surprise Will Adds New Twist in Case of Late Zappos CEO's Fortune (wsj.com)

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New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don't yet live up to billing (arstechnica.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day (gizmodo.com)

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California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy (cnn.com)

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Does ELIZA, the first chatbot created 60 years ago, hold lessons for modern AI? (cbc.ca)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | cbc.ca | newest

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Building the World's Biggest Plane to Help Catch the Wind (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | newest

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Economists don't know what's going on (economist.com)

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The future is sexy–at least in Syd Mead's visionary science-fiction art (theartnewspaper.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | theartnewspaper.com | newest

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What's Going on Inside Io, Jupiter's Volcanic Moon? (quantamagazine.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Magnetic confinement advance promises 100 times more fusion power at half cost (phys.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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A 2k-year-old battle ended in fire, and a tree species never recovered (arstechnica.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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xPrize in Carbon Removal Goes to Enhanced Rock Weathering (ieee.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | frontpage

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New framework suggests stars dissolve into neutrons to forge heavy elements (phys.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Haunting Image Is the First Orbital View of Curiosity Moving Across Mars (gizmodo.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | gizmodo.com | newest

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"Periodic table of machine learning" could fuel AI discovery (news.mit.edu)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | mit.edu | newest

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The Carthaginians weren't who you think they were (economist.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | economist.com | newest

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Most Phoenicians did not come from the Canaan,challenging historical assumptions (science.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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"Fragile, impermanent things": Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall (thebulletin.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | thebulletin.org | frontpage

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Research reveals first skeletal evidence of gladiator bitten by lion in Roman (phys.org)

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Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude: March 2025 (anthropic.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | anthropic.com | newest

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Cluster headaches are 'the most painful condition on the planet' (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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World's oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth's ancient history (curtin.edu.au)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | curtin.edu.au | newest

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A Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain (nature.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar (newyorker.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | newyorker.com | newest

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OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience (arstechnica.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | best

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Honda Will Test a Fuel-Cell System in Space (ieee.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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The Outlook for Programmers (acm.org)

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Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus (phys.org)

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FDA will phase out petroleum food dyes, authorize four natural color additives (cnn.com)

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Astronomers discover planet that's disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail (phys.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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India under tariff pressure to give Amazon and Walmart full market access (reuters.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | reuters.com | newest

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Anthropic analyzed 700K conversations – found AI has a moral code of its own (venturebeat.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | venturebeat.com | newest

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U.S. Pushes $900M for Small Modular Reactors (ieee.org)

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Nanoscale Makes a Power Play (acm.org)

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Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy (theregister.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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New NIH director defends grant cuts as part of shift to support MAHA vision (science.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | science.org | frontpage

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Hearing loss in older adults linked to nearly one-third of dementia cases (medicalxpress.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry (quantamagazine.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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FTC sues Uber, says company charged for Uber One without consent (cnbc.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | cnbc.com | newest

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Drones can deliver supplies on Mount Everest this year, may change climbing (cnn.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | cnn.com | newest

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Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech (arstechnica.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Huawei readies new AI chip for mass shipment as China seeks Nvidia alternatives (reuters.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | reuters.com | frontpage

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How Well Did the Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Work? (smithsonianmag.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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Cancer-Causing Arsenic Is Building Up in the Rice (gizmodo.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | gizmodo.com | newest

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Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | best

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Study finds potential link between infant acid-suppressants and celiac disease (medicalxpress.com)

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AI has grown beyond human knowledge, says Google's DeepMind unit (zdnet.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | zdnet.com | newest

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Red, pink or white, all roses were once yellow says genomic analysis (phys.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Generative Models Are Ruining Themselves (acm.org)

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The grit and glory of British toe wrestling (huckmag.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | huckmag.com | frontpage

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The Lost Plays Database (folger.edu)

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House Democrats: DOGE is building a ‘master database’ of Americans’ information (theverge.com)

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Chinese robots ran against humans in the first humanoid half-marathon (cnn.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | cnn.com | newest

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Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Native American names extend earthquake history of northeastern North America (phys.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Generative AI matches non-specialist doctors in diagnostic accuracy, study (medicalxpress.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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For Sale: The World's Most Precise Clock (ieee.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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VC Translator – Decode what investors *really* mean (vc-translator.vercel.app)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | vercel.app | newest

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The Man Who Fought Chicago for His Cadillac–and Never Got It Back (reason.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | reason.com | newest

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The Rise of Adaptive Phishing: When AI Learns to Manipulate (acm.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | acm.org | newest

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Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online, alive (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | frontpage

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Curiosity rover finds large carbonate deposits on Mars (phys.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Why has a social network where everyone is a bot become so popular? (elpais.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | elpais.com | newest

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China bans 'smart' and 'autonomous' driving terms from vehicle ads (reuters.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | reuters.com | newest

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Trump's FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage (arstechnica.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Measuring Global Migration Flows Using Online Data (arxiv.org)

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Robert E. McGinnis, Whose Lusty Illustrations Defined an Era, Dies at 99 (nytimes.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | newest

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A Scanning Error Created a Fake Science Term–Now AI Won't Let It Die (gizmodo.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | gizmodo.com | newest

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AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | frontpage

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The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia (phys.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Japan's bet on stem-cell therapies might soon pay off with medical breakthroughs (nature.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Lab-grown chicken 'nuggets' hailed as 'transformative step' for cultured meat (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Colossal Squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time (science.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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China Now Faces 245% Trump Tariff (newsweek.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | newsweek.com | newest

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It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images – but IP is no laughing matter (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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Anthropic's Claude AI Chatbot Expected to Gain 'Voice Mode' This Month (macrumors.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | macrumors.com | newest

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Crows Recognize Geometric Regularity (science.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty (arstechnica.com)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | best

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To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language (quantamagazine.org)

3 weeks ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Mark Zuckerberg Takes the Stand (theverge.com)

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Older people who use smartphones 'have lower rates of cognitive decline' (theguardian.com)

4 weeks ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Astronomers Spot a Planetary 'Suicide' (science.org)

4 weeks ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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Crows can recognize geometric regularity (phys.org)

4 weeks ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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For First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant (gizmodo.com)

4 weeks ago | pseudolus | gizmodo.com | newest

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New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents (pillar.security)

4 weeks ago | pseudolus | pillar.security | best