Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes Early superdense star clusters may have planted seeds for monster black holes.
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Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes
Early superdense star clusters may have planted seeds for monster black holes.
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James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racists, sexist comments.
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James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died
His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racist, sexist comments.
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Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
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Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.
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Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year
Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.
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10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.
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10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world
This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.
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Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.
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Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.
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“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections American inspections of foreign food facilities hit historic lows this year.
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“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections
American inspections of foreign food facilities hit historic lows this year.
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“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections American inspections of foreign food facilities hit historic lows this year.
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“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections
American inspections of foreign food facilities hit historic lows this year.
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After Russian spaceport firm fails to pay bills, electric company turns the lights off "If you increase the cost, you’ll get everything in two years. If not, I’m sorry.”
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After Russian spaceport firm fails to pay bills, electric company turns the lights off
If you increase the cost, you’ll get everything in two years. If not, I’m sorry.”...
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DHS wants to use biometrics to track immigrant kids throughout their lives Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants.
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DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says
Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants.
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