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lundi 9 juin 2025, 18:16
The world's oceans are in worse health than realised, scientists have said today, as they warn that a key measurement shows we are 'running out of time' to protect marine ecosystems. From a report: Ocean acidification, often called the 'evil twin' of the climate crisis, is...
A cybersecurity researcher was able to figure out the phone number linked to any Google account, information that is usually not public and is often sensitive, according to the researcher, Google, and 404 Media's own tests. From a report: The issue has since been fixed but...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta is in talks to make a multibillion-dollar investment into AI startup Scale AI, according to people familiar with the matter. The financing could exceed $10 billion in value, some of the people said, making it one of the largest...
Apple researchers have found that state-of-the-art 'reasoning' AI models like OpenAI's o3-mini, Gemini (with thinking mode-enabled), Claude 3.7, DeepSeek-R1 face complete performance collapse [PDF] beyond certain complexity thresholds when tested on controllable puzzle...
Vox publishes a story about 'the quiet revolutions that have prevented millions of cancer deaths.... 'The age-adjusted death rate in the US for cancer has declined by about a third since 1991, meaning people of a given age have about a third lower risk of dying from cancer...
The Atlantic makes that case that 'the foundation of the AI industry is a scam' and that AI 'is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking — and, soon, feeling — machines.' [OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved 'emotional...
'Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics,' according to a recent announcement from the University of California, Riverside. In a new modeling study published in Communications Earth & Environment,...
A new study 'adds a whole extra level of detail to our understanding of caffeine's impact on the brain during sleep,' reports ScienceAlert: Caffeine was shown to increase brain signal complexity, and shift the brain closer to a state of 'criticality', in tests run by...
The U.K. electricity grid 'was built to deliver power generated by coal and gas plants near the country's major cities and towns,' reports the BBC, 'and doesn't always have sufficient capacity in the wires that carry electricity around the country to get the new renewable...
Nintendo's new Switch 2 console sold a record 3 million units after its launch Thursday. But then today Microsoft announced their own upcoming handheld gaming device that's Xbox-branded (and Windows-powered). Working with ASUS' ROG division, they build a device that weighs...
dimanche 8 juin 2025, 23:57
'NASA engineers have spent the past decade developing a rugged, partially autonomous lander designed to explore Europa, one of Jupiter's most intriguing moons,' reports Gizmodo. But though NASA 'got cold feet over the project,' the engineers behind the project are now...
In late April Meta introduced its Meta AI app, which included something called a Discover feed. ('You can see the best prompts people are sharing, or remix them to make them your own.') But while Meta insisted 'you're in control: nothing is shared to your feed unless you...
Last month, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn 'shared on LinkedIn an email he had sent to all staff announcing Duolingo was going 'AI-first',' remembers the Financial Times. 'I did not expect the amount of blowback,' he admits.... He attributes this anger to a general 'anxiety'...
The New York Times reports: California State University announced this year that it was making ChatGPT available to more than 460,000 students across its 23 campuses to help prepare them for 'California's future A.I.-driven economy.' Cal State said the effort would help make ...
It's no longer a hypothetical question, writes the Washington Post. 'In recent years, scientists have devised powerful genetic tools that may be able to eradicate mosquitoes and other pests once and for all.' But along with the ability to fight malaria, dengue, West Nile...
The Associated Press reports that on Friday, U.K. High Court justice Victoria Sharp and fellow judge Jeremy Johnson ruled on the possibility of false information being submitted to the court. Concerns had been raised by lower-court judges about 'suspected use by lawyers of...
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports 'left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs,' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The New York Times: Russian counterintelligence agents are analyzing data from the popular Chinese messaging and social media app WeChat to monitor people who might be in contact with Chinese spies, according to a Russian...
An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate about a lawsuit alleging a 'warrantless drone surveillance program' that's 'trampling residents' right to privacy': Sonoma County has been accused of deploying hundreds of drone flights over residents in a 'runaway spying...
AppleInsider reports: The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. 'Bill' Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer... Atkinson, who built a post-Apple career as a noted ...
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