Anthropic has extended an invitation to the European Commission granting the EU’s cyber agency access to its powerful AI hacking tool Mythos, according to a Commission official familiar with the process. The AI firm made the formal invitation after a meeting with the Commission in San Francisco last Thursday, the Read more…
You may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth. – Nicklaus Wirth
The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. — Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project
In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth’s outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet’s usual westward flow. This happened in 2010, according to satellite measurements of Earth’s magnetic field, and scientists are still trying to figure Read more…
Researchers have identified a ring of minerals around the largest basin in the northern hemisphere of Mars (which past research suggests held a large body of water). Research provides new clues on when life may have been possible on Mars — and how future astronauts could make oxygen: Manganese oxides Read more…
A research team found “extensive changes” on brain scans of 13 young women taking GLP-1 drugs. Within only a few months, the brain connections in the salience network, which helps target attention, had multiplied… [“We didn’t expect to see this effect, and we really don’t know what it means,” said Read more…
Aerodynamic drag is a major “barrier” in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design with less aerodynamic drag allows the aircraft to move at higher speeds with less energy. When an aircraft or car body moves at high speed, a thin layer of air called the Read more…