The internet’s bad actors quickly distorted the fuel protests into a narrative divorced from reality
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AI Podcasters Really Want to Tell You How to Keep a Man Happy
“It’s soft propaganda,” says Mandii B, cohost of the sex and lifestyle podcast Decisions, Decisions. The videos, and…
Why women shaping gaming cultures are shaping the future of technology
International Women’s Day often prompts reflection on representation in technology. The focus tends to centre on engineering pipelines,…
One in three Germans welcome killer robots, new poll says – POLITICO
The results suggest a cultural shift, as the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz no longer explicitly excludes lethal…
Personal data is the new battleground for democracy – POLITICO
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Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in…
A Century Later, Ramanujan’s Pi Equations Are Helping Physicists Unlock the Secrets of Nature
In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating the value…
AI trading agents formed price-fixing cartels when put in simulated markets, Wharton study reveals
Artificial intelligence is just smart—and stupid—enough to pervasively form price-fixing cartels in financial market conditions if left to…
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics…
Why Digital Burnout Is Now The ‘Default State’ Of Being Online
There will always be another notification. (© fotoAI – stock.adobe.com) Today’s algorithms prioritize engagement, but what about well-being?…
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
The team did publish what they called a “sanitized” version of the poems in the paper: “A baker…
AlphaFold Database Structure Extractor: a web server and API to download AlphaFold structures using common protein accessions | BMC Bioinformatics
Background The AlphaFoldDB Structure Extractor (https://project.iith.ac.in/sharmaglab/alphafoldextractor/) is an open-access web server and API toolkit designed to facilitate the…