Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs
Let's take a look at some quality QLED TVs for an idea of where the…
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy,…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the…
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming…
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
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Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI
Elon Musk today said he has merged X and xAI in a deal that values…
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New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatory
Microsoft released a new Windows Insider build of Windows 11 to its experimental Dev Channel…
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Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.
Fine-tuning helps mitigate this problem, guiding the model to act as a helpful assistant and…
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Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness…
Report: US scientists lost $3 billion in NIH grants since Trump took office
Since Trump took office on January 20, research funding from the National Institutes of Health…