As researchers and practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it used early access to Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its new Firefox 150 browser…
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The 5 Best Grocery Store Coffee Beans, Out of More Than 15 I Tested
1: Intelligentsia House Blend
Trendy Intelligentsia coffee isn’t worth the steep price.
Intelligentsia is a Chicago-founded roaster that’s become a widespread specialty coffee brand in grocery stores coast to coast. At $20…
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Mollusk shells could pave the way to greener materials
In 59 B.C.E. Julius Caesar, future dictator of Rome, gifted his favorite mistress Servilia a black pearl earring of such size and luster that it was chronicled by many Roman writers of the day.
Caesar reportedly paid six million sesterces…
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Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts
Elon Musk is expectorating racist diatribes even more than usual, and it’s alienating his fans…
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China’s Geely unveils 1,400 TOPS robotaxi built on human-like reasoning
Chinese automotive giant Geely has introduced its first purpose-built robotaxi prototype, the Eva Cab. Unlike retrofitted vehicles, the model is designed from the ground up around artificial intelligence, integrating a 196-billion-parameter Step…
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Scientists directly detect Earth’s one of rarest argon isotopes
In a world filled with trillions upon trillions of atoms, spotting a handful that barely exist sounds almost impossible. Atoms of argon-42 (⁴²Ar), one of the rarest isotopes in Earth’s atmosphere, present at just one part in 10²¹, fall in…
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Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass
Ace is a robot that aims high: It wants to become the world champion of table tennis. It was developed by Sony AI researchers who, in a new study published in Nature, have shown how this robot, equipped with artificial intelligence, has faced…
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The best trick AI can pull is disappear into my gadgets instead of turning into a product
My wife recently woke up from a nightmare where AI had taken over human bodies. The likely culprit was less dramatic: Google Photos kept nudging her to “AI” herself when she only wanted to look at pictures of our cats.
That’s where…
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Why are some constellations visible for only part of the year?
Some stars and constellations are ever-present in the night sky; Polaris, for example, has served as a steady guiding light for millennia in the Northern Hemisphere.
But if you look closely at the sky night after night, you may notice that some…
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Planned Parenthood is turning to services like Botox to stay afloat : NPR
Samantha Pohlman, a registered nurse, performs a cosmetic treatment procedure on Christine Ruiz at Planned Parenthood – B…
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