2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (223+ words) The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent. For a child bursting with energy, few things are more fun than hurtling through a bouncy castle, launching into the air, and ping-ponging between every surface. But that childhood buoyancy will…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (657+ words) DJI drones that already supply Mount Everest camps assist Nepal’s flood relief. Chinese-made drones are airlifting the bodies of flood victims and delivering food to survivors in the aftermath of devastating flash floods on the border of Nepal and China’s…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (456+ words) UN-backed Equal Earth map has educational value but won’t alter navigation apps. Nearly every country represented in the United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents. But…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1631+ words) Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt. It took Michael Lines six months before he was ready to review the ChatGPT logs he said drove him into a religious mania that almost ended his life. In…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (580+ words) Ars Technica Late last week, word started leaking that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had reached an agreement with the Department of Defense that would see part of the NIH’s budget used to fund research at the Department of…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (219+ words) Trump admin’s propaganda “arcade” hits some apparent legal limits. An anti-immigration-themed adaptation of Tetris was removed from the White House website over the weekend. The move comes days after The Tetris Company disavowed any involvement with the game and said…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (221+ words) The EU continues to go after Google search practices it sees as anticompetitive. “To comply with DMA requirements, we’re making significant changes to Search in Europe,” Google’s Nick Fox told Reuters. “These changes ​degrade the user experience for ​Europeans, boosting…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1292+ words) “We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before.” Isar Aerospace, founded in 2018 by three students at a German university, successfully launched a privately-developed rocket into low-Earth orbit Saturday from a Norwegian spaceport inside…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (318+ words) In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test. Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (459+ words) The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day. Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s startling announcement in July that the US military would begin mandatory testosterone screening for personnel, the Pentagon released a clinical guidance…...