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BC.GAME To Host 'Untamed Arena' During TOKEN2049, Showcasing Web3 Culture And Influencer Appearances
"Untamed Arena" is a side event scheduled for April 29 at Bla Bla Dubai. The gathering is expected to attract over 3,000 attendees. Antonio Brown, NFL All-Pro and Super Bowl...
COCOGEN vs DAVINCI: A Human Evaluation of Structured Commonsense Graph Generation
Human evaluation confirms COCOGEN's advantage over DAVINCI in generating more relevant and accurate argument graphs. For EXPLAGRAPHS, COCOGEN consistently produces better semantic relations. In PROSCRIPT, both models have strengths, but...
Delaying Navy’s F/A-XX Fighter Would Be a ‘Disaster’ vs. China
Key Points – Potential multi-year delays to the US Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation carrier fighter program—reportedly due to funding debates, industrial base capacity concerns, and strategic indecision over manned versus unmanned...
I Created an AI Chat Bot to Automate Appointment Booking
BuddyBrain is an AI assistant that can book appointments on Google Calendar for you automatically by taking prompts and interacting with customers on WhatsApp. It uses the OpenAI API and...
Meet PAUL: A Soft Robot That Moves with Air Pressure
This research presents PAUL, a modular soft robotic arm with pneumatic actuation, featuring 5 degrees of freedom. It is constructed using silicone and wax casting, with an open-loop control system...
A live-action Elden Ring movie from A24 and Alex Garland is in the works
It's real: Garland is writing and directing it, and George RR Martin is involved.
Podcast: From molecule to medicine, with Ross Rheingans-Yoo on Complex Systems
Published on May 21, 2025 9:08 PM GMTI appear on Patrick McKenzie's Complex Systems podcast, presenting my overall view of what's wrong in the world of drug development. Here's a...
Pre-LessOnline coworking at Mox
Published on May 19, 2025 11:18 PM GMTMox (https://moxsf.com) is fully open to the public in the leadup to LessOnline! Wanted to check out Mox? Need a place to cowork...
Brazilian "Supercows" Reportedly Close to Achieving World Domination
More Cowbell In southeastern Brazil, bovine beauty pageants help determine the most genetically-desirable cows in the world — and these "supercows" are changing the meat farming as we know it....
Intel's all-important Panther Lake mobile chip rumoured to launch later this year with just one model and it won't be getting the exciting graphics option
Only four Celestial-spec GPU cores at launch, not the full-fat 12-core variant.
Police Arrest Alleged Leader of "Roko’s Basilisk" Cult Linked to Multiple Murders
Over the weekend, police managed to apprehend Jack "Ziz" DeSota, a mysterious figure who allegedly leads a group called the "Zizians" tied to a mind-boggling cross-country string of murders. At...
The Navy’s Big Mistake: Retiring the USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier
The U.S. military has been surprised at the longevity and ferocity of the Houthi terrorists in Yemen. The militants just do not want to stop shooting missiles and firing drones...
Sounds Like Elon Musk Is About to Get Eviscerated by Jon Stewart
Elon Musk is apparently headed to "The Daily Show" — and his interview with Jon Stewart will air unedited. News of this all-star matchup comes fresh on the heels of...
Tesla's Sales Are Falling So Much That the Cash It Rakes in for Carbon Credits Is Under Threat
A number of major carmakers, including Toyota, Stellantis, Mazda, and Subaru, "pooled" their emissions with EV makers Polestar and Tesla earlier this year, in an effort to comply with tougher...
Jak powstała najgorsza jednostka w historii Waffen-SS
Zamów książkę "Wojna oczami wroga. Sojusznicy Hitlera" już dziś: http://www.wojnaoczamiwroga.pl/ Premiera 27 listopada 2024 roku! Skąd naprawdę wzięła się Brygada Szturmowa SS "Dirlewanger"? Czyje wsparcie zapewniło Oskarowi Dirlewangerowi karierę w...
Podcast: DOGE's Website, Hacked
DOGE left its website backend exposed; lawyers own up to using AI; and a YouTube true crime documentary channel where all the murders are AI-generated.
Why Is a Government Contractor Trying to Buy iPhone Hacking Tech From Us?
A contractor for the Air Force and other government agencies wanted to get a good deal on some Graykeys from us (we're journalists FYI).
Ticked Off: A Dark Web Researcher's Perspective on TikTok's Controversy
The U.S. government has been laser-focused on banning TikTok, citing national security risks, concerns over data collection, and its ties to China. The push to ban TikTok has gained major...
Trump Posts AI-Generated Video of Genderqueer Bellydancers Frolicking
Late last night, president Donald Trump took to Truth Social, the social media platform he has a majority stake in, to publish a — strange? Baffling? Horrifying? All of the...
Animal Lovers Alarmed as Company Goes Dark After Putting Microchips in Tens of Thousands of Pets
It's standard practice in the veterinary field to microchip animals. So standard, in fact, that some 3.5 million pets in the US have little rice-sized chips in them, helping rescue...
Old school food blogger Adam Roberts has a new novel out this...
Old school food blogger Adam Roberts has a new novel out this week called Food Person in which “a young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting the cookbook...
Conservationists are planting giant sequoia trees in Detroit. “We’re planting the forest...
Conservationists are planting giant sequoia trees in Detroit. “We’re planting the forest of the future. Diversity is the answer. There are so many natives that aren’t happy here anymore. We...
If you thought USB naming was nonsense, allow this professional furry engineer to explain the total nightmare that is the underlying hardware complexity of USB-C
Oh, and it's all Apple's fault. Well, possibly...
What the Onboarding Process Looks Like at Social Discovery Group
The onboarding process at Social Discovery Group (SDG) includes three structured stages: technical setup with a system administrator, mentorship for team integration, and HR guidance on policies and feedback. This...
Bitcoin Is Crashing Hard
The global financial crisis spurred on by president Donald Trump's ill-founded tariffs has finally reached Bitcoin, and boy is it crashing hard. Over the weekend, Bitcoin fell from nearly $85,000...
Qualitative Fit Testing
Published on May 23, 2025 2:50 AM GMT As I wrote about last week, it's worth it for everyone to have an elastomeric respirator in case of emergencies: the chance...
In an uncontroversial move that will bother no one, Lies of P is getting an easy mode
It'll also get other new modes in a free update, when its Overture expansion drops.
Mirror Organisms Are Not Immune to Predation
Published on May 22, 2025 11:10 AM GMTCore Argument The barrier to preying on "mirror-image" life is likely lower than presumed due to: Immediate energy from achiral fats. Existing L-sugar...
Learning (more) from horse employment history
Published on May 23, 2025 2:11 AM GMTThe economist Wassily Leontief, writing in 1966, used the then-recent decline of horses to make vivid what he foresaw as the coming impact...
Insiders at Tesla Concerned That Musk's Madness Is Damaging Company, Saying It Would Be Better If He Just Resigned
Elon Musk's antics have gotten so out of control that even his flunkies at Tesla are starting to get worried. According to a report from The Washington Post, there's growing...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Beyond the Usual Doom: Five AI Dangers Nobody Is Talking About (5/22/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 22, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft released Windows...
Beyond Seen Worlds: EXPLORER’s Journey into Generalized Reasoning
EXPLORER dynamically generalizes symbolic rules using WordNet hypernyms to improve performance on unseen entities in text-based games.
Trump Tariffs Show Signs of Being Written by AI
President Donald Trump has announced what he claims to be a "reciprocal" ten percent tariff plan on most goods being imported into the US, affecting over 100 countries. A smaller...
Programmers are Reportedly 3x’ing their Workloads Using SoftMine’s AI Software Developer
SoftMine is a full-stack AI software engineer. The platform doesn’t just respond to prompts — it works with context. Feed it your technical spec, and it will design a solution...
Elon Musk Should Name A City On Mars After Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer’s “Red Planet” was all about Mars before Elon made it to be the thing. It’s not too much to ask for Musk to do something about it.
Why Does Google’s New Veo 3 AI Video Generator Love This Dad Joke?
“I went to the zoo the other day, there was only one dog in it…”
What the Hell Is the Mar-a-Lago Accord and Why Should You Care?
The Mar‑a‑Lago Accord is a bold framework to reshape America's global economic stance. It relies on key mechanisms—strategic currency devaluation, century bonds that extend debt maturity, tariffs to boost domestic...
Numbers Show Massive Numbers of Consumers Are Turning Against Tesla
Despite growth in the electric vehicle industry at large, Tesla's sales are slipping more than ever as its boisterous CEO's toxic politics take center stage. In new numbers shared with...
Training AI to Understand Legal Texts in Different Domains
This section evaluates how rhetorical role classifiers generalize across domains, showing that methods like prototypical learning and discourse-aware contrastive learning improve cross-domain performance. Prototypical models prove robust in preventing overfitting...
The Ultimate ChatGPT Prompts Library for Product Managers
The ultimate LLM prompts library: 55 prompts I’ve collected over the last year
Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro: Closed Studio Headphones
Ten years ago I bought a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro headphones for use while podcasting. My product research was rigorous and exhaustive: I asked Marco Arment which headphones...
Horizen on Base: Unlocking ZK Privacy for Al
Horizen, a privacy-first chain, is migrating to Base, the Layer 2 chain. Horizen’s secret weapon? Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) ZKPs let one party prove a statement without revealing the details.
Making Transformers Smarter: A Memory Boost for Symbolic Tasks
Researchers introduced PANM, a plug-and-play memory module that mimics symbolic processing using pointers. PANM improves neural networks’ generalization to longer, unseen sequences and boosts performance in symbolic tasks, QA, and...
Elden Ring Nightreign director says the game was built for squads of three and 'doesn't collapse if it's a solo player,' but admits that duos have gone 'kind of overlooked'
It might take two to tango, but ideally you're open to a third if someone brings up Elden Ring.
Claude 4
Anthropic: Today, we’re introducing the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents. Claude Opus 4...
The Dave & Busters Anomaly
PJ Vogt, in a very fun episode of his podcast, Search Engine: A small group of Americans becomes convinced they’ve discovered something strange about their iPhones: a forbidden phrase the...
The Trump Administration's Chat Hack Is Starting to Sound Really Bad
Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz has already been ousted for using a crappy Signal clone — but the fallout from that debacle just keeps going. As Reuters reports,...
Jak niemieccy żołnierze wspominali bitwę o Monte Cassino
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If awful RTX 50-series prices aren't enough to get you consider an RTX 40-series card, maybe this dinky single-fan RTX 4070 will be
Bonus: It might not require you to remortgage your home, either.
Going Deep on ‘Deep’
Katy Steinmetz, writing for The Washington Post (via Mignon Fogarty): But lately, one meaning has become trendier than the rest. Close ties to artificial intelligence have led to a surge...
