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Monday September 1, 2025. 12:30 PM
On September 3, China will hold a “Victory Day” military parade in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan—and to send the West a message.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we look back at the week's biggest stories—from the researchers leaving Meta's new superintelligence lab, to the dark money group funding Democratic influencers.
Trust and believe – AI models trained to see 'legal' doc as super legit Researchers at security firm Pangea have discovered yet another way to trivially trick large language models (LLMs) into ignoring their guardrails. Stick your adversarial instructions somewhere in a...
Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter probe has pinpointed the source of electrons expelled by the Sun, with implications for forecasting space weather.…
At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM Who, Me? No two mistakes are the same, but The Register thinks they're all worth celebrating each Monday when we serve up a fresh edition of Who, Me? – the reader-contributed column in which we share your most magnificent messes,...
'Typically when something is available to 'buy,' ownership of that good or access to that service is offered in exchange for money,' writes Ars Technica. 'That's not really the case, though, when it comes to digital content.' Often, streaming services like Amazon Prime Video ...
Sites at yourcountry.gov may also not bother with HTTPs Internet traffic to government domains often flows across borders, relies on a worryingly small number of network connections, or does not require encryption, according to new research.…
'I have no musical talent at all,' says Oliver McCann. 'I can't sing, I can't play instruments, and I have no musical background at all!' But the Associated Press describes 37-year-old McCann as a British 'AI music creator' — and last month McCann signed with an independent...
PLUS: Spain cancels Huawei deal; Sony wants to use only recycled gold; Video of Alibaba’s uncanny FOSS digital humans; and more Asia In Brief China’s State Council last week announced a new IT policy called “AI +”, the successor to 2015’s “Internet +”.…
PLUS: Microsoft ends no-MFA Azure access; WorkDay attack diverts payments; FreePBX warns of CVSS 10 flaw; and more Infosec In brief A flaw in Meta's WhatsApp app “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.”…
'Nearly 400 students, many of them entrepreneurs, have so far made the journey to Forest City to study everything from coding to unconventional theories on statehood,' reports Bloomberg. 'They're building crypto projects, fine-tuning their physiques and testing whether a...
Futurism reports: Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems...
Graphic designer Lisa Carstens 'spends a good portion of her day working with startups and individual clients looking to fix their botched attempts at AI-generated logos,' reports NBC News: Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that...
It's one of the best times of the year to score a new mattress. Here are all the best deals (plus some exclusive sale codes) to snag ahead of the long weekend.
Sunday August 31, 2025. 11:11 PM
The U.S. government site climate.gov offered years' worth of climate-science information — until its production team was fired earlier this summer. The site 'is technically still online, but has been intentionally buried by the team of political appointees who now run the...
'A class of drugs called beta-blockers — used for decades as a first-line treatment after a heart attack — doesn't benefit the vast majority of patients,' reports CNN. And in fact beta-blockers 'may contribute to a higher risk of hospitalization and death in some women but no...
'AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model mills,' argues Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at the Register. And 'when AI searchbots, with Meta (52% of AI searchbot traffic), Google (23%), and...
'I'm still teaching at Princeton,' 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at New Jersey's InfoAge Science and History Museums. And last month the video was uploaded to YouTube, a new article points out, 'showing that his talk ended with a unique...
'According to a new study, wearing the right kind of perfume or cologne can enlarge your brain's gray matter,' writes ScienceAlert Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose scent oil on their clothing for...
There's something rare about a snail named Ned, reports CNN: Ned's shell spirals left, while almost all other snails have right spiraling shells. It's a one in 40,000 genetic condition among the common corno espersum... 'I was quite breathless for a moment,' says Giselle...
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