Welcome back to the Abstract! Whatever else you think of this past week, it sure served up some ridiculously good science. I’m talking about a real boffin buffet, with all the fixings. There were studies about trees spying on illegal mines. Or, an eerie rhino graveyard buried in ash 12 million years ago. Or, the…
For the past couple of weeks, a community of developers who use the programming language Ruby have been closely following a dramatic change in ownership of some of the most essential tools in its ecosystem with far reaching impacts for the worldwide web. If you’re not familiar with Ruby or the open source development community,…
Impressive results from China’s low-cost DeepSeek AI model this week shaved roughly $1 trillion from U.S. tech stocks in the S&P 500.
Agentic intelligence in Sophos MDR: A practical, outcome-focused approach Categories: Products & Services Tags: MDR, Sophos MDR, AI
A U.S. airman in Wyoming died last week after an incident involving an M18 pistol, the military version of the P320 handgun, a weapon long infamous among gun nerds. The incident, and other incidents where the M18 and the civilian version of it, the P320, have fired unexpectedly, have sent gun hobbyists into investigation mode,…
DeepSeek’s $6M AI breakthrough sent shockwaves through the market, but Gelsinger says investors are getting it all wrong.
What a long, strange trip it’s been Categories: Security Operations Tags: Active Adversary
The investment decision by some of the world’s most prominent tech firms coincides with Trump’s rescinding Biden’s order addressing AI’s potential risks. Though some have cheered Trump’s decision, others are concerned.
Conservative content mill PragerU is partnering with the White House to make AI-generated videos of founding fathers and Revolutionary War-era randos. PragerU is a nonprofit organization with a mission “to promote American values through the creative use of digital media, technology and edu-tainment,” according to its website. It’s been criticized for advancing climate denial and…
The Executive Office of the President registered the domain aliens.gov on Wednesday a little after 6:30 AM according to a bot that monitors federal domains. There’s no associated website just yet, but the registration comes a month after Trump said he would direct the government to release files related to aliens and UFOs to the…
