Science educator Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. But Hossenfelder’s latest YouTube video expounds upon the sorry state of particle physics, and in the process also has some interesting sidenotes on dark matter. Hossenfelder criticises what has become the standard operating procedure of Read more…
Adam R. Smith, a software engineer with 40+ years of experience reportedly became frustrated with his friends and associates’ claims about the potential of crypto technology and their subsequent losses of money in various schemes, and set out to write a series of articles explaining what blockchain is and whether Read more…
Two “two enormous cracks” in the Earth’s crust have opened up near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes Monday: Researchers from the U.K. Centre for the Observation & Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Tectonics (COMET) found the ruptures by comparing images of the area near the Mediterranean Sea coast Read more…
“The waiting time for general purpose quantum computers is getting shorter, but they are still probably decades away,” notes Security Week. But “The arrival of cryptanalytically-relevant quantum computers that will herald the cryptopocalypse will be much sooner — possibly less than a decade.” It is important to note that all Read more…
The day after Microsoft unveiled its AI-powered Bing chatbot, “a Stanford University student named Kevin Liu used a prompt injection attack to discover Bing Chat’s initial prompt, a list of statements that governs how it interacts with people who use the service.” By asking Bing Chat to “Ignore previous instructions” Read more…
Eating fewer calories appears to slow the pace of aging and increase longevity in healthy adults, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Aging. The study, which was funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, is the first-ever randomized controlled Read more…
A new pill could help alleviate constipation by delivering vibrations that “help kickstart the body’s nature processes for getting rid of waste,” reports Gizmodo. Vibrant still comes in the form of a pill, but before swallowing (around bedtime each night), it first needs to be activated by inserting it into Read more…