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Sunday August 3, 2025. 02:36 AM
Remember, it's all synthesized 'anthropomorphizing'. But with that caveat, Science News reports: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in 'The Sims' but much, much simpler), having 'guilt' can be a stable strategy that benefits them and increases...
The women-only app Tea now 'faces two class action lawsuits filed in California' in response to a recent breach,' reports NPR — even as the company is now boasting it has more than 6.2 million users. A spokesperson for Tea told the CBC it's 'working to identify any users...
Saturday August 2, 2025. 10:34 PM
The Washington Post reports: In early July, a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations was found inside the grounds of a sprawling Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina that today partly serves as a storage area for radioactive...
After an 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia, 'weather authorities leapt into action,' reports SFGate, by modeling the threat of a tsunami 'and releasing warnings and advisories to prepare their communities...' But some residents of Hawaii, Japan and North America's West...
There's now an 'influx' of startups fightging wildfires, reports the Washington Post. 'More than 100 new wildfire-related technologies have launched in the U.S. and around the world since 2023, according to Lori Moore-Merrell, who served as U.S. fire administrator during the ...
'The July 2025 results of the Steam Survey were posted a few minutes ago,' Phoronix reported last night, 'and show a healthy 0.32% increase to put the Linux gaming marketshare at 2.89%.' That's a recent high in percentage terms and while Steam saw around 3% in the early days ...
After it began 'peering into the distant universe' in 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope 'has discovered a rash of 'little red dots',' reports Science magazine. There's 'hundreds of them, shining within the first billion years of the 13.8-billion-year-old universe, so...
In Shanghai at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (which ran until Tuesday), the Chinese government 'announced an international organization for AI regulation and a 13-point action plan aimed at fostering global cooperation to ensure the technology's beneficial and ...
The vehicle 'once led the Space Shuttle down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base,' The Drive reported in 2022, noting it was won in an auction for $21,061 (beating 18 other bidders). 'I just figured the NASA brand combined with Airsteam hip seemed like a can't lose...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Silicon Valley's AI talent war just reached a compensation milestone that makes even the most legendary scientific achievements of the past look financially modest. When Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke...
Scientists hope their plumage project could someday lead to biocompatible lasers that could safely be embedded in the human body.
Cameras can offer peace of mind, but choose carefully before inviting one into your home.
We almost got more butterfly keyboards and foldable workstations Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's...
With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering.
Plus: A former top US cyber official loses her new job due to political backlash, Congress is rushing through a bill to censor lawmakers’ personal information online, and more.
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Community content site aims to profit from real conversation Reddit has found that trafficking in human-authored content pays well in the AI era.…
A Rutgers-led study using advanced computational modeling reveals that expanding solar power by just 15% could reduce U.S. carbon emissions by over 8.5 million metric tons annually, with the greatest benefits concentrated in specific regions like California, Texas, and the...
Plus: Netgear has an affordable Wi-Fi 7 mesh system, Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z Fold series is a hit, and Google’s Pixel 10 leaks heat up.
Plaintext passwords, shared admin accounts, and insufficient logging rampant at mystery org CISA is using the findings from a recent probe of an unidentified critical infrastructure organization to warn about the dangers of getting cybersecurity seriously wrong.…
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