Meteorite That Hit Home Is Older Than Earth, Scientists Say
Meteorite That Hit Home Is Older Than Earth, Scientists Say Summary On 26 June a meteorite struck the roof of a house in McDonough, Georgia. A fragment was examined by…
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centers Share Blame
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centers Share Blame Summary The Slashdot post links to an Associated Press report detailing growing evidence that fast-expanding, energy‑hungry data centres…
WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix
WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix Summary The Wall Street Journal analysed roughly 96,000 ChatGPT transcripts shared online between May 2023…
Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole
Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole Summary Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University) outlines a speculative but technically framed proposal for sending gram-scale ‘nanocrafts’—microchips on…
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires Summary State and local fire experts recently watched a demonstration in San Bernardino of an autonomous Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter outfitted…
$1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code
$1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code Summary Security researchers at Koi Security detail a coordinated campaign they call “GreedyBear” that stole over $1 million (user reports) by…
How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem
How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Summary The Python Software Foundation’s Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, has published an 11-page white paper and shepherded PEP 770 to address…
As Demand for Plant-Based Meat Weakens in the US, Beyond Disappoints Wall Street
As Demand for Plant-Based Meat Weakens in the US, Beyond Disappoints Wall Street Summary Reuters reports that Beyond Meat missed Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue as US demand for…
Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches are ‘making the world worse’
Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches are ‘making the world worse’ Summary Linux maintainer Linus Torvalds publicly admonished Google engineer Palmer Dabbelt for submitting a late patch…
‘Hour of Code’ Announces It’s Now Evolving Into ‘Hour of AI’
‘Hour of Code’ Announces It’s Now Evolving Into ‘Hour of AI’ Summary Code.org, the non-profit behind the annual Hour of Code campaign, has announced it is rebranding the initiative as…