2025-04-13
Jamelle Bouie on Trump’s Tariff Obsession
Jamelle Bouie, writing at The New York Times (gift link): There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He...
MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find
Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick from the contrast dye injected into the bodies of people before they get magnetic resonance imaging...
The underrated, open world, hoverboard FPS gem of 2024 just got a free update with new guns and islands for its cloud archipelago
Echo Point Nova is a great game worth checking out.
Intro to Multi-Agent Safety
Published on April 13, 2025 5:40 PM GMTWe live in a world where numerous agents, ranging from individuals to organisations, constantly interact. Without the ability to model multi-agent systems, making...
Baby Born to Woman With Transplanted Womb
In Scotland, a woman successfully gave birth to a baby girl after getting a womb transplant from her sister. As the BBC reports, couple Grace and Angus Davidsin welcomed baby...
The Markup and the Curious Case of the Tricky Timeout Bug
At The Markup, we often do investigations focused on user privacy, or the lack thereof. So much so that we built a tool to help everyone do it. One of...
Is Virtual Reality Bad for Your Mental Health?
Virtual reality is growing in popularity, but does this escape from reality harm their mental health? VR can cause disassociation and reality confusion, social isolation, increased anxiety and panic, and...
Marvel Rivals sneakily implements 'butt patch' that cakes up every male character in the game
The cheeks update spares no man.
Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News
As the United States' biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, a near-majority of readers seem pretty peeved about it. In a new poll conducted by Poynter...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: How Clapper is Revolutionizing the Creator Economy (4/13/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apollo 13 explosion...
Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court
A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of his own likeness to address the judge during a court appearance. And as The Register reports, the judge was unsurprisingly unimpressed...
Vestigial reasoning in RL
Published on April 13, 2025 3:40 PM GMTTL;DR: I claim that many reasoning patterns that appear in chains-of-thought are not actually used by the model to come to its answer,...
Trump Official Says It's Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them
A Trump official is coming after the real menace plaguing America: those gosh-darn freeloaders moping around in the endangered species list. On Monday, interior secretary Doug Burgum suggested that the...
The J-50 Fighter Question We Had To Ask
Summary and Key Points: China’s J-50 fighter, notable for its lambda wing configuration, represents the PLA Air Force’s potential next-generation combat jet. Designed for high maneuverability and agility, its distinctive...
The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carriers Explained in 4 Words
Summary and Key Points: The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, are the largest warships in British naval history. -With advanced technology,...
Why the U.S. Marines Dumped All Of Their Tanks
In 2020, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) announced it would implement a 10-year plan to forego its “second land army” focus and return to its maritime legacy. Before assuming...
Scientists Study Who Actually Likes Lip Filler
As supplies become cheaper and stigmas against cosmetic procedures ease, lip fillers are becoming more and more ubiquitous — but men who like to kiss women are, apparently, not impressed....
Think U.S. Navy Carriers are Unsinkable? Meet the Gotland-class Submarine
Meet the Gotland-Class: The US Navy has used aircraft carriers for power projection for over 80 years. With aircraft on board, they can sweep an enemy from the sea or...
China’s Arsenal of Missiles Could Paralyze the U.S. Military in a Crisis
China’s Medium and Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile Threat in the Indo-Pacific: What Can the U.S. Military Do?: China currently has one of the world’s top military capabilities, with force projection power...
Everything You Have to Know About Go 1.24
Go 1.24 comes with many improvements over Go 1.23. The language now fully supports type aliases. The standard library now includes mechanisms to facilitate FIPS 140-3 compliance.
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