Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.

Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

The second update from the Anthropic Economic Index

In this technical report, we tackle the challenges of training large-scale Mixture of Experts (MoE) models, focusing on overcoming cost inefficiency and resource limitations prevalent in such...

The Trump administration says it hopes to save $11.4 billion by freezing and revoking COVID-era grants. Addiction experts say clawing back the federal funding is risky and could put patients at risk.

You probably recall Ajit Pai, Trump’s first FCC boss. Pai took a mindless hatchet to broadband consumer protection and media consolidation limits with no shortage of scandal. Like that time h…

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Pwning a major New Zealand service provider On the evening of the 19th February 2025 I had an itch, an itch to…

BREAKING: 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting mainly Myanmar and Thailand.

I woke up today to an X post by Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, a company that sells “AI as a programming service”.

Framework for specifying and proving properties—such as robustness, fairness, and interpretability—of machine learning models using Lean 4. - fraware/leanverifier

The Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov once said of writers, “And to write and write, like a wheel or a machine, tomorrow, the day after, on holidays; summer will come—and he must still be writi...

Anyone might wonder how often they are caught on police cameras that operate 24/7. I spent a day driving, and over a month trying to get the answer.

How do young children categorize objects?

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On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.