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OpenAI's AI reasoning model 'thinks' in Chinese sometimes and no one knows why (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | rntn | techcrunch.com | newest

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The LA fires cast CA's water scarcity into stark view. It's going to get worse (vox.com)

3 months ago | rntn | vox.com | newest

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The Two Word Test as a semantic benchmark for large language models (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | frontpage

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With AI boom in full force 2024 datacenter deals reach $57B record (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Aquifer Beneath Oregon's Cascades Could Be the Largest in the World (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | rntn | gizmodo.com | newest

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UK plans to ban public sector organizations from paying ransomware hackers (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | rntn | techcrunch.com | newest

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It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Absolute Linux ends – where next? Distros that don't exist, but we wish did (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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How doctors make medical decisions is evolving with technology (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | newest

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How Do We Democratize Scientific Research? (undark.org)

3 months ago | rntn | undark.org | newest

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Cryptojacking, backdoors abound as fiends abuse Aviatrix Controller bug (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning (acm.org)

3 months ago | rntn | acm.org | newest

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Big Oil and Big Ag turning cow poop into energy – and profits; it doesn't add up (vox.com)

3 months ago | rntn | vox.com | newest

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The people fighting to get through to anti-science Americans (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Why firefighting planes dumping ocean water on LA fires is a last resort tactic (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | newest

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A Novel Multi-Hop Query Answering System Based on a Large Knowledge Graph (acm.org)

3 months ago | rntn | acm.org | newest

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NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Novice and Experienced Software Devs Compare Online and In-Person Collaboration (acm.org)

3 months ago | rntn | acm.org | newest

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UK adopts venture capitalist recommendations, leaves datacenter energy unsolved (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Understanding Why Climate Change Is Making Europe's Highest Peak More Dangerous (smithsonianmag.com)

3 months ago | rntn | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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Even 1 drink a day elevates your cancer risk: new government report (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | frontpage

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In Hokkaido, 'sea of mega solar farms' threatens protected park (asahi.com)

3 months ago | rntn | asahi.com | newest

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Tictok, VPNs and the ongoing, cumulative attempts to undermine internet freedoms (slate.com)

3 months ago | rntn | slate.com | newest

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Nvidia's AI empire: A look at its top startup investments (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | rntn | techcrunch.com | newest

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On-device query intent prediction with lightweight LLMs to support conversations (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | newest

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Bodily damage laws originate from shared intuition about the value of body parts (science.org)

3 months ago | rntn | science.org | newest

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It's getting harder to measure just how good AI is getting (vox.com)

3 months ago | rntn | vox.com | newest

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[flagged] US Supreme Court curbed public scrutiny as it boosted security before Roe ruling (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theguardian.com | frontpage

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California overhauled its insurance system. Then Los Angeles caught fire (grist.org)

3 months ago | rntn | grist.org | frontpage

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Fears of 'rogue rewilding' in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Plastic recycling: A panacea or environmental pollution problem (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | frontpage

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Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | newest

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People are flocking to Florida. Will there be enough water for them? (grist.org)

3 months ago | rntn | grist.org | newest

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Did Hilma af Klint draw inspiration from 19th century physics? (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | rntn | arstechnica.com | newest

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Native American church laments psychedelic cactus shortage (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theguardian.com | newest

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Reducing irrigation of livestock feed is essential to saving Great Salt Lake (sciencedirect.com)

3 months ago | rntn | sciencedirect.com | newest

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What You Should Know About Wildfire Smoke in Homes (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | rntn | gizmodo.com | newest

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Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse? (vox.com)

3 months ago | rntn | vox.com | newest

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The Supreme Court doesn't seem likely to save TikTok (vox.com)

3 months ago | rntn | vox.com | frontpage

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Microsoft says "hacking-as-a-service" scheme bypassed its AI safety guardrails (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | rntn | arstechnica.com | newest

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Chinese cyber-spy on officials probing real-estate deals near US Military bases (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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The global implications of a Russian gas pivot to Asia (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | newest

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Toward a New Politics of Care – Reexamining Broken-World Thinking (hedgehogreview.com)

3 months ago | rntn | hedgehogreview.com | newest

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Federal Agencies Lack Critical Information About Their Riskiest AI Systems (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | rntn | gizmodo.com | newest

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Only 5 percent of US car buyers want an EV, according to survey (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | rntn | arstechnica.com | newest

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Drug addiction treatment service admits attackers stole sensitive patient data (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Quantifying attrition in science: a study of scientists in 38 OECD countries (springer.com)

3 months ago | rntn | springer.com | newest

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Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Tokyo Uber Blues [video] (pbs.org)

3 months ago | rntn | pbs.org | newest

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Industrial Complex Proposal Threatens the Clearest Skies for Astronomy (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | rntn | gizmodo.com | newest

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Coal likely to go away even without EPA's power plant regulations (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | rntn | arstechnica.com | newest

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How the U.S. could in fact make Canada an American territory (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | newest

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Honda could tap Nissan for short-term benefits in U.S. pickups, SUVs, capacity (autonews.com)

3 months ago | rntn | autonews.com | newest

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X CEO signals ad boycott is over. External data paints a different picture (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | rntn | arstechnica.com | newest

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We need to talk about human genome editing (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | newest

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Microsoft preps for a year of enterprise-impacting M365 retirements (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Meta is highlighting a splintering global approach to online speech (theverge.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theverge.com | newest

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[dupe] Coding help on StackOverflow dives as AI assistants rise (devclass.com)

3 months ago | rntn | devclass.com | newest

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Yellowstone National Park assets' standing dead tree wildfire vulnerability (sciencedirect.com)

3 months ago | rntn | sciencedirect.com | newest

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Artificial Intelligence and Electricity: A System Dynamics Approach (se.com)

3 months ago | rntn | se.com | newest

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Ukrainians claim hack of Russian ISP wiped out servers, caused internet outages (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | rntn | techcrunch.com | newest

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To save the energy grid from AI, use open source AI, says open source body (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | best

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Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with 20 years off forecast (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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License plate readers are leaking real-time video feeds and vehicle data (wired.com)

3 months ago | rntn | wired.com | frontpage

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One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | newest

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Logging off life but living on: How AI redefines death, memory and immortality (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | newest

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Nevermind Chinese spies: US Air Force picks Verizon for 35 base network upgrades (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | frontpage

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EU Politicians Suggest Shutting Off X's Algorithm (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | rntn | gizmodo.com | newest

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Singapore Anti-Scam Law Gives Police Power over Bank Accounts (barrons.com)

3 months ago | rntn | barrons.com | newest

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The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | rntn | arstechnica.com | newest

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John Deere boasts driverless fleet – who needs operators, anyway? (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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You can't optimize your way to being a good person (vox.com)

3 months ago | rntn | vox.com | best

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Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – it sometimes makes it worse (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | newest

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Climate fight needs fundamental reform, UN expert: States not good faith actors (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theguardian.com | newest

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Google is building its own 'world modeling' AI team for games and robot training (theverge.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theverge.com | frontpage

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Recombinant venom proteins in insect seminal fluid reduce female lifespan (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | newest

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Can AWS Fix AI Hallucination? We Talk to Head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don't we treat them like one? (vox.com)

3 months ago | rntn | vox.com | frontpage

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Charter, Consolidated, Windstream reportedly join Salt Typhoon victim list (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Meta Smart Glasses First Big Cultural Moment Is a Terror Attack (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | rntn | gizmodo.com | newest

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What Shakespeare revealed about the chaotic Richard 3 reign that still resonates (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | newest

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MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the ways species are adapting to humans (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theguardian.com | newest

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Stolen e-bike batteries could be made worthless if Bosch was less greedy (theverge.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theverge.com | newest

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Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Going Round in Circles: A Cognitive Bias in Geometric Reasoning (direct.mit.edu)

3 months ago | rntn | mit.edu | newest

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Temperature shapes language sonority: Revalidation from a large dataset (oup.com)

3 months ago | rntn | oup.com | newest

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Dynamic analysis, optimal control of competitive information dissemination model (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | newest

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Tech law in 2025: a look ahead at AI, privacy and social media regulation (theconversation.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theconversation.com | newest

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New Orleans' planned new Bourbon Street barriers only crash-rated to 10 MPH (reuters.com)

3 months ago | rntn | reuters.com | newest

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A year after Boeing's door plug accident, aircraft giant faces a steep recovery (cnbc.com)

3 months ago | rntn | cnbc.com | newest

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The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | newest

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The reason that OS/2 flopped went on to shape modern software (theregister.com)

3 months ago | rntn | theregister.com | newest

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Sea-Level Rise Coastal Groundwater Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure (2024) (annualreviews.org)

3 months ago | rntn | annualreviews.org | newest

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Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply (2023) (nature.com)

3 months ago | rntn | nature.com | newest