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Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharoahs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice. But there is very little archaeological evidence available, given that many of the earliest Egyptian tombs were plundered and/or hastily excavated. A new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology reassesses a collection of skulls excavated from tombs in the 1920s and concludes that over one-third show evidence of blunt force trauma.
Algebra of symmetry allowed physical properties of crystals
The symmetry of a physical system given by the 122 magnetic point groups (MPGs) leads to only 21 sets of restrictions on any physical tensors. Those, so called, tenor forms were labeled by letters from A to U by R. R. Birss (Symmetry and Magnetism, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1964). A new concept of property-related point groups (PRPGs) is proposed. It is shown that the 21 PRPGs isomorphic to the 21 non-centrosymmetric crystallographic point groups (CPGs) corresponds to the 21 tensor forms. Theref
Multimodal reasoning for broadly neutralizing antibody discovery from label-free human B cell repertoires across virus families
Discovering broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) from human natural immune repertoires remains a fundamental challenge in immunology, hindered by: the extreme rarity of bnAb, incomplete understanding of their cellular origins across pathogens, and the inability of existing computational tools to generalize across emerging viral threats. Here we present ImmuneAgent, a closed-loop AI system that integrates multimodal reasoning with continual meta-learning and wet-lab feedback to overcome these
Chiefs very interested in a Tyreek Hill reunion amid injuries at receiver, per report
Kansas City has reportedly reached out to Hill's agent
Middle East oil exports surpass pre-war levels despite tensions, data shows
IRGC commander says oil flows through US-supervised route in Hormuz are ‘negligible’.
Asset manager Schroders to expand in Hong Kong after Nuveen merger: CEO
Government actions are making Hong Kong ‘a more appealing location for private markets professionals’, Richard Oldfield says.
'Tracker' Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Air?
Justin Hartley returns as Colter Shaw, a skilled tracker and lone-wolf survivalist, when "Tracker" heads back to CBS this fall.
Tech powerhouse’s regulatory push bears similarities to a notorious Washington strategy
Anthropic's AI regulation push mirrors Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto lobbying playbook, with millions in donations and safety rhetoric critics call capture.
Why developers are giving Jev a shot
A new AI model called Jev has developers buzzing. We cut through the hype to find out what makes it different - and why it matters.
Easing constipation: A 20-minute walk can get your gut moving almost immediately
Researchers found that just 20 minutes of comfortable walking can rapidly stimulate the gut. Within one to two minutes after exercise, bowel sounds became stronger, more frequent, and lasted longer, suggesting increased intestinal movement. The boost was brief, fading within a few minutes, but it ma
Training for Your First Marathon? Avoid These Common Injuries - Baptist Health
Individual needs vary considerably based on fitness, running history, age, previous injuries and health conditions. Dr. Swartzon has previously ...
Week 4 Fantasy Football panic meter: Early Week 5 waiver wire adds, Keon Coleman emerging as post-hype sleeper
There's nothing quite like the overreactions from Fantasy Football managers that pour in after every Sunday, so let's try and parse through what actually matters.
Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague in Siberia; US monitoring case
A Russian agency links the lab worker's death to 'pneumonia of unknown' origin.
Tech-driven defence boom sparks demand for UK offices and research labs
Property investors in Britain are targeting defence clients to capitalise on growing spending on rearmament, including to occupy former bank offices in London's Canary Wharf financial district, real estate companies have told Reuters. A boom in defence technology — from drone programming to AI-enhan
Sister Wives' Janelle Brown Reacts to Ex Kody Brown Trying to Ruin Her Image: "F--k Him"
Sister Wives' Janelle Brown would like to slam the door on Kody Brown's claims she concocted a "backdoor deal" to screw Meri Brown out of money. She detailed her side on the series' Oct. 4 premiere.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner is danderbandit with a comment about the California ruling against a rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots: So a sheriff broke the law, was confirmed by the sta…
JOVE: Joint Execution and Verification for Resource-Aware LLM Task Graphs
Complex reasoning queries can be decomposed into directed acyclic task graphs and distributed across heterogeneous LLMs, reducing latency through parallelism and enabling smaller models to solve complex tasks. In practice, however, the suitability of an LLM for a given subtask may be a priori unknown, and execution alone does not reveal output correctness. We propose JOVE, an online framework that jointly assigns executor LLMs and selects intermediate outputs for paid verification. Verification
Trial results show no survival benefit with the use of proton therapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Initial results of the NRG Oncology NRG-GI003 clinical study comparing proton and photon therapy for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) indicate that proton therapy did not improve the primary objective of overall survival (OS). At the planned interim analysis, the trial was relea
Health Check: CSL places $500m-plus bet on rare kidney and liver disease drug candidate | Stockhead
CSL will pay an upfront US$355 million ($515m) to co-develop an external drug candidate aimed at treating rare kidney and liver diseases.
"The injury must really be serious" - Fans fear for Jannik Sinner after Italian reportedly plans to skip Six Kings Slam
Jannik Sinner hasn't played a tour-level match since winning his fifth Grand Slam title at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships as he continues to deal with a knee injury.
FBI arrests ‘Chinese foreign agent’ for spying on Taiwan president’s son
A California woman allegedly sent photos and videos of President Lai's son and his family to Chinese officials.
How to reclaim 10GB of iPhone space without deleting photos or apps
Few digital warning banners prompt immediate frustration quite like seeing “iPhone Storage Almost Full” right when you open your camera to record a quick video. You might assume that you’re trapped in a terrible trade-off: Either delete three years of family photos or start uninstalling apps you actually use. In reality, most of the storage bloat on your phone doesn’t come from your photo library or active application code. It comes from hidden caches, forgotten off
'Off Campus' co-stars Mika Abdalla and Josh Heuston go public with romance at Valentino’s Paris Fashion Week show; fans call them 'It couple of the year' - WATCH
Mika Abdalla and Josh Heuston have gone public with their romance!
Former Anthropic researcher Coxon to testify at New York AI hearing, Bloomberg reports
News agency Reuters could not immediately verify the report Read more at The Business Times.
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Has Rare Cautionary Note on AI Safety
Speaking at a tech forum in Kyoto, Masayoshi Son called for global cooperation on AI safeguards, warning that superintelligence could pose a greater threat than conflict between humans if misused. Bloomberg tech editor Mayumi Negishi said the caution marks a notable shift in tone from the longtime t
Illuminating early ZrC oxidation using ensemble small-cell DFT with dynamic gas management
During zirconium carbide oxidation, liberated carbon can remain beneath the oxide or escape as gas, complicating the interpretation of mass measurements. We adapt the small-cell ensemble method using sixteen 140 ps ab initio molecular dynamics trajectories at 873-1273 K under a sustained high oxygen flux with gas removal. The average rates of net mass gain and total carbon transfer into gas or retained chains follow Arrhenius trends. Above 973 K, gas evolution levels off while total carbon trans
Aroa Biosurgery boosts Symphony clinical case with faster diabetic wound healing | Stockhead
ARX (ASX:ARX) has boosted the case for Symphony, with a RCT finding better healing outcomes for DFUs compared to standard care.
Falcons vs. Saints predictions, odds, time: Week 4 'Monday Night Football' picks from proven model
SportsLine's model has revealed its Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints picks for 'Monday Night Football'
US coastguard suspends search for six on board crashed medical jet
Debris found off Nantucket island after the air ambulance disappeared while flying from Bermuda to Boston.
Evaluating Threshold Policies in Randomized Threshold Designs: A Cautionary Tale for Regression Discontinuity Designs
Many policies assign treatment according to whether a score crosses a cutoff. Regression discontinuity (RD) designs identify the effect of treatment assignment, but the threshold policy itself may also reshape individuals' incentives, inducing behavioral responses that affect outcomes even holding treatment status fixed---a channel that conventional RD designs cannot capture. We develop a framework that exploits randomized variation in policy thresholds, together with rank-invariance-type restri
Matthew Rhys takes Best Actor at Bafta Cymru for performance in Netflix thriller
The actor added another award to his cabinet after winning two lead acting Emmys last month.
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
S$^{2}$-PINN: Stochastic Separable Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) for random partial differential equations (PDEs) is ubiquitous in computational science and engineering. However, classical spectral solvers for this class of problems face the curse of dimensionality, and existing neural solvers often ignore the stochastic structure that makes moments and calibration tractable. We introduce a stochastic separable physics-informed neural network, dubbed S$^{2}$-PINN, that represents the solution $u(t,\mathbf{x},\mathbf{Z})$ of a r
World’s tallest wind turbine reaches nearly 1,200 feet in Germany
A 1,197-foot wind turbine has reached its full height in Germany, making it the world’s tallest wind turbine.
Exercise Timing in Type 1 Diabetes: Before or After Meals?
Discover how exercise timing in type 1 diabetes, meal timing, insulin on board, and workout intensity can influence glucose responses.
John Cena Says He Was Terrified When Filming Controversial Apology To China
John Cena filmed an apology video for China after receiving a ton of backlash. Now, the star has admitted that he was very afraid.
Bolsonaro beats expectations in Brazil vote, faces Lula in runoff
Brazil’s presidential election is heading to a run-off after Bolsonaro and Lula both fell short of the 50% needed to win
No Women No Innovation? The Effect of Women on Boards on Hard and Soft Innovation in SMEs
The role of women on corporate boards and its impact on innovation remains heavily debated. While existing literature offers conflicting perspectives on whether female board representation spurs or hinders innovaiton, most research has focused exlusively on large firms. This studt adresses this gap by investigating the causal impact of women on boards on both "hard" (technological) and "soft" (non-technological) innovation within SMEs. Using a longitudinal dataset f 2762 Italian innovative SMEs
Fact Check: Is Trump planning to file a $10B lawsuit if Democrats win the midterms?
The claim surfaced as Republicans are projected to lose the November midterm election
US lead in AI over China narrows after DeepSeek gains, BI says
That improving performance spells further market share gains for Chinese contenders Read more at The Business Times.
Asia Among Most Vulnerable to AI Correction, Asean Unit Warns
Southeast Asia plus China, Japan and South Korea are more at risk than most economies to any potential collapse in the artificial-intelligence boom, which could trigger shocks across financial markets and the real economy.
Moon-Like Madagascar
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Moon-Like Madagascar Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search From an astronaut’s perspective looking back at Earth, a patch of bright rock in arid southern Madagascar m
NeuroLens: Learning Latent Embeddings of Neural Semantics from Chronic Recordings
Understanding how neural activity represents higher-order cognition and how these representations evolve over time has long been a central pursuit in neuroscience. However, current analytical tools cannot easily distinguish representational plasticity from recording instability in chronic neural recordings. Here, we introduce NeuroLens (Latent Embeddings of Neural Semantics), a self-supervised model based on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) framework that learns denoised, seman
NFL reviewing heated exchange between referee, Vikings' Eric Wilson
The league is looking into two separate incidents involving a player and an official during Week 4
Samoa PM apologises after Nazi salute video emerges
Pacific island nation’s leader says 2007 video showing him saying 'Heil Hitler' does not reflect his beliefs.
Airbus board appointments herald CEO decision next year, sources say
PARIS: Airbus has announced a series of board changes including its first female chairperson and the first from outside its Franco-German power base, marking the beginning of crucial leadership decisions expected in the coming year.
'Fearmongering, false statements’: Todd Blanche hits back at armed poll monitor claims
AG Blanche made the remarks Sunday in an interview, as Democrats warned Trump could deploy federal agents at polling places
Shlexball: Mac file search that understands descriptions
Describe what you remember and Shlexball finds the file on your Mac. It searches names and the text inside PDFs and Word documents, with an AI model that runs entirely on your Mac.
You should avoid using a screen protector on your MacBook — here's why - Engadget
Screen protectors can do more harm than good.
Second-order Raman and anharmonic lattice dynamics in lead-halide perovskites
We explore the microscopic origin of THz-driven lattice dynamics in methylammonium lead bromide CH$_3$NH$_3$PbBr$_3$ using two-dimensional THz Kerr-effect spectroscopy. The analysis of the experiment enables discrimination between competing nonlinear excitation mechanisms and reveals that the dominant pathway is phonon-mediated rather than purely photonic. In particular, we argue that the commonly observed 1.15~THz Raman-active $A_g$ mode is not excited directly by the THz electric field. Instea
Response Variability and Stability in Human Reasoning
Understanding how humans reason -- and how reasoning responses vary across tasks and individuals -- remains a core challenge for modeling and explanation in cognitive science. We investigate the stability of response patterns within reasoners and whether variation in these patterns can be used to predict learning effects. We introduce a formal, geometry-based method to quantify distances between individual reasoning patterns and their internal variability, grounded in heuristic theories. The pro
Eagles' offense completely collapses vs. Rams: Who's to blame and what needs to change
The offensive meltdown after having the chance to deliver the knockout punch to Los Angeles highlights an uncomfortable truth in Philadelphia
Who were the top teen athletes at the Asian Games?
China’s Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, finished with seven gold medals while compatriot Yu Zidi won three record-breaking golds.
Cross-Fitting Under Nonregularity: Normality and Inference via Locality
Cross-fitting is routine in much of applied research. While conventional confidence intervals that ignore cross-fold dependence are asymptotically valid in several settings, they undercover in many applications that share a common form of nonregularity: from the classic cross-validation problem of testing whether a fitted model outperforms another, to testing for heterogeneous treatment effects with machine learning, to estimating the value of a potentially non-unique optimal treatment regime. E
Bassam Tariq Defends Kevin Feige After Their Failed 'Blade' Reboot: Competing With Wesley Snipes Was an 'Impossible Task'
"Blade" with Mahershala Ali never happened, but director Bassam Tariq still thinks Marvel chief Kevin Feige is a "good dude."
Why Oracle’s 1.3GW Project Lighthouse may not see full power until 2029
After 10 months of review, Oracle’s 1.3 GW Wisconsin Data Center fails to get power approval — restarts the entire process
Wrong Organ, Right Physics: Transferring Echocardiography Pretraining to Lung Ultrasound for Tuberculosis Screening
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is attractive for tuberculosis (TB) screening at primary-care level, but labelled cohorts are small. Echocardiography carries no such constraint, while sharing the same underlying ultrasound imaging physics, signal processing and B-mode appearance as LUS. We ask whether an encoder pretrained on that high-resource ultrasound domain carries representations that remain usable in the low-resource one. Only the encoder varies, across seventeen encoders spanning three architectur
APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104:… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams Explanation: A deep image of the Sombrero galaxy reveals surprises. M104 is named the Sombrero galaxy because, on shorter exposures, it looks like a hat.
Early Lampard findings could come within weeks
Early recommendations could be issued if evidence highlights patient safety risks, the chair says.
LSU's Will Wade lands first 2027 5-star in guard King Gibson
LSU landed five-star guard King Gibson after the No. 13-ranked prospect in 2027 chose the Tigers over Arkansas, Louisville and Providence.
Singapore turns matchmaker amid rock-bottom birthrate
City-state launches dating platform for government workers, drawing curiosity, amusement and scorn.
Stop telling women to talk about menopause at work
Recently, menopause has gone from taboo to mainstream, with celebrities turning “the change” into a status symbol and vocal clinicians becoming household names. Those brave women paved the way for more conversation, catalyzing focus and research on women’s health, and we should all be grateful. But what happens in media and pop culture rarely transfers to corporate culture. As a 22-year corporate veteran, I (Kacy) make my living studying and speaking to employees in organizations. From
Trump Lashes Out at Fox News for 'Not Covering' His Ohio Rally: 'Who Makes These Decisions?'
President Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News on Truth Social, claiming the network wasn't covering his rally in Ohio.