‘Weird new things are happening in software,’ says Stanford AI professor Chris Re | ZDNet

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as…

First HIV case was a WWI soldier who caught the virus hunting chimps

EXCLUSIVE: Professor Jacques Pepin at Université de Sherbrooke spoke to MailOnline about his new ‘cut soldier’ hypothesis…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated its launch license in explosive Starship test, triggering an FAA probe

SpaceX’s next test Starship test launches are getting a close look from the FAA. Read more…

US team including 2 teenagers discovers ‘planetary lab’ with a rocky super-earth

The planetary system has been discovered around star HD 108236 that’s just 200 light years away.…

How has Earth stayed habitable for so long? Scientists have 2 theories

To understand how we came to exist on planet Earth, we’ll need to know how Earth…

Google researcher discovers new iOS security system | ZDNet

iOS 14 shipped with BlastDoor, a new sandbox system for processing iMessages data. Read more at…

The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained

The Riemann hypothesis is the most notorious unsolved problem in all of mathematics. Ever since it…

Female physicist invents new fusion to take the first humans to Mars

Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi designed a fusion rocket that uses magnetic fields to shoot plasma particles from…

An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.

Image-generation algorithms are regurgitating the same sexist, racist ideas that exist on the internet. Read more…

How Transformers work in deep learning and NLP: an intuitive introduction

Transformers work in deep learning and nlp: an intuitive introduction. How did we go from attention…

Scientists look to harness the power of AI and the mind combined

European Commission gives project £3m to explore a new kind of technology. Is it worth it?…

Here’s what happened when AI and humans met in a strawberry-growing contest

Top strawberry growers were pitted against data scientists in a smart-agriculture competition organized by Chinese e-commerce…

Fruit Fly Brain Hacked For Language Processing

A simulated fruit fly brain has learnt to perform natural language processing tasks. Read more at…

10-years-old Sudo bug lets Linux users gain root-level access | ZDNet

The vulnerability, named “Baron Samedit,” impacts most Linux distributions today. Read more at ZDNet…

DDoSers are abusing Microsoft RDP to make attacks more powerful

DDoS amplification attacks have abused all kinds of legit services. Now, it’s Windows. Read more at…

NASA delays Juno spacecraft’s retirement after detecting mysterious radio waves

The Juno spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has a new lease on life, thanks to NASA.…

YouTuber Upgrades RTX 2070 to 16GB of VRAM

The 16GB RTX 2070/2080 rumors may have been real. Read more at Tom’s Hardware…

Hackaday takes a close look at Raspberry Pi’s new $4 microcontroller, the Pico | Boing Boing

Pico is the new $4 Raspberry Pi microcontroller board. It looks amazing for the price. Hackaday…

Microsoft patent details tech that could turn dead people into AI chatbots

It’s Black Mirror come to life. Read more at CNET…

A critical animal for Earth’s survival has gone missing — study

New research shows that global scientific records of bee species has declined by 25 percent since…