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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-29 14:16:40

Researchers: Tile tags broadcast unencrypted MAC addresses and unique IDs; researchers informed Life360 in November 2024 but it stopped replying in February (Kim Zetter/Wired)
wired.com/story/tile-tracking-

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-28 09:20:05

When "AI" search engines look for sources, they go for fringe and not established quality sites. What could possibly go wrong?
(Original title: AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find)
arstechnica.com/a…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-29 12:00:56

"A shift in food taxes could cut emissions and make diets healthier, researchers say"
#Emissions #Food #Health

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-11-28 01:56:35

Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn #environment

Diamonds,
particularly those with nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers,
are being used to create advanced quantum sensors
that can measure magnetic fields with high sensitivity.
To unlock the full potential of these sensors,
researchers need to understand the behavior of the material at the atomic level.
In a recent study conducted at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME),
Prof. David Awschalom’s team has developed a n…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-27 17:47:55

Exclusive: Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus, researchers find | Reuters
reuters.com/world/europe/us-re

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-29 19:00:56

"‘Most people don’t know it exists’: Europe’s last healthy flat oysters at risk, researchers warn"
#Norway #Oysters

@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-12-28 13:45:43

The CCGS Amundsen is a Canadian research icebreaker run by the non-profit Amundsen Science at Université Laval and operated by Canadian Coast Guard. This past summer, the ship was able to navigate into areas previously off limits due to very thick multi-year ice (5 yrs, 7 or more metres thick). There is much less of this thick stable ice in the Arctic now due to #ClimateChange, meaning prev…

image/jpeg researchers in orange life suits take measurements on a snow covered ice sheet that extends into the distance. A red ship with a helicopter and Canadian flag sits in the background. Source: Amundsen Science.
‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-10-29 00:08:03

@… Yeah, it’s unfortunate. And, just to make sure, it’s not just that I don’t like it, but the revised proposal actually wouldn’t be feasible.
I’d say that what we have here is a variation of a frequent problem: when interdisciplinary research gets evaluated by disciplinary researchers, they focus on their discipline and are disappointed when it doesn’t add…

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-10-29 00:08:03

@… Yeah, it’s unfortunate. And, just to make sure, it’s not just that I don’t like it, but the revised proposal actually wouldn’t be feasible.
I’d say that what we have here is a variation of a frequent problem: when interdisciplinary research gets evaluated by disciplinary researchers, they focus on their discipline and are disappointed when it doesn’t add…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-28 14:31:51

🔀 Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
#molbio

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-10-26 14:53:43

For the love fuck, this is meaningless. LLM models can't shut themselves off. They're never "on" in the first place. They don't have physicality or permanence.
It's an algorithm that transforms one state of data into another, and for each invocation needs to be fed the whole conversation again.
Perpetuating the unhinged bullshit that LLMs are somehow sentient is harmful.
Dear journalists, for the love of Carl Sagan's sweater vest get some actual experts to vet claims from the industry or indusry-adjacent sources and clarify your reporting.
theguardian.com/technology/202

@StephenRees@mas.to
2025-11-28 17:24:45

From The Conversation
Canada’s long history with public service media offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public.
A publicly funded AI system could draw on public-domain materials, government datasets and openly licensed cultural content. It could be offered as an open-source system, making it widely available to researchers, developers and everyday users alike.

The inside of a computer with the central part carrying a symbolic AI
 
Demand for AI is high, but enforcement tools to make sure it respects privacy and data rights remain scarce. Policymakers are caught between encouraging innovation and preventing corporate interests from defining AI. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-28 09:35:42

Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce "partisan animosity" (Stanford University)
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-10-25 16:13:16

Is #AI developing HALitosis?
theguardian.com/technology/202

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-10-25 16:13:16

Is #AI developing HALitosis?
theguardian.com/technology/202

@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-29 09:15:18

Functional Encryption in Secure Neural Network Training: Data Leakage and Practical Mitigations
Alexandru Ioni\c{t}\u{a}, Andreea Ioni\c{t}\u{a}
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21497

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-29 07:36:55

LLM Agent Meets Agentic AI: Can LLM Agents Simulate Customers to Evaluate Agentic-AI-based Shopping Assistants?
Lu Sun, Shihan Fu, Bingsheng Yao, Yuxuan Lu, Wenbo Li, Hansu Gu, Jiri Gesi, Jing Huang, Chen Luo, Dakuo Wang
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21501

“This is the most complicated thing that you could possibly imagine,” said Mike Williams, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“In fact, you can’t even imagine how complicated it is.”
The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form.
And its forms differ drastically depending on how researchers set up their experiment.
Connecting the particle’s many faces has …

@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-29 10:22:37

Estimating average treatment effects when treatment data are absent in a target study
Lan Wen, Aaron L Sarvet
arxiv.org/abs/2509.22543 arxi…

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-12-27 18:55:44

I have long felt that liberal/progressive messaging often tended towards not merely hyperbole, but hyperbole that carried far more than the intended message.
Consider the phrase "Defund the police". That carries a clear message that implies near elimination of police based law enforcement. Few of us want that. Police are an important element of an ordered society.
But pretty much all of us see that police are doing too much and that it is better to restructure police…

@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-16 22:40:12

CSUN Researchers Call for Public’s Help in Documenting Joshua Trees’ Surprise Out-of-Season Bloom
newsroom.csun.edu/2025/12/16/c

@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-29 08:35:08

Radio Stars in the Era of New Observatories
Lynn D. Matthews
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21467 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21467

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-10-28 02:37:08

High levels of short-chain PFAS found in blood of residents living near chemical facility #health

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-29 01:20:39

Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than the past, and 99.98% accuracy (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)
decrypt.co/341716/caltech-buil

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-28 02:54:47

🤝 Why protests can bring people together across political divides
#protests

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-29 11:38:39

'Living off the land' allowed Russia-linked group to breach Ukrainian entities this summer therecord.media/russia-linked-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-24 16:30:46

The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/24/busines

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-22 15:50:45

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges (Ali Winston/Wired)
wired.com/story/senators-want-
memeorandum.com/251122/p37#a25

@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-29 07:50:17

eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for RL-based Networking Solutions
Yeison Stiven Murcia, Oscar Mauricio Caicedo, Daniela Maria Casas, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21649

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-11-26 18:25:00

@… at least, some proof of your existence.
"In a twist, the findings lend credence to the Australian folk hoax of the “drop bear,” a ferocious, carnivorous variety of koala said to fall upon its victims from the canopy. Paleontologists think Thylacoleo was an adept climber and ambush predator that could dive upon its prey from tree branches or roc…

@arXiv_physicsaoph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-29 09:29:08

Toward a digital twin of the Great Barrier Reef: impact of extreme model resolution on tidal simulations
Jon Hill, Ana Vila-Concejo, Katherine C. Lee
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21957

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-28 19:00:10

"Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials"
#Bamboo #Plastic #Plastics

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-21 11:45:37

What?
Researchers from the University of Vienna have quietly compiled a digital directory so vast that it contains the personal details of nearly half the global population by scraping the data of 3.5 billion WhatsApp users.
ibtimes.co.uk/whatsapp-da…

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-10-29 16:38:06

Before plants or animals, fungi conquered Earth’s surface #nature

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-11-20 02:15:01

Concordia researchers are transforming urban living in Montreal by modeling a sustainable solar-powered 15-minute city, enhancing community bonds and reducing greenhouse gas emissions through local agriculture and green transportation.
enn.com/articles/…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-29 16:36:00

🪡 Machine embroidery encodes skin-like tension lines in textiles, enabling mass-customizable wearables
techxplore.com/news/2025-09-ma

@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-11-26 07:56:09

Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/

@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social
2025-11-21 14:39:25

#Theia, the giant impactor that created the Moon, and Earth were neighbors! Read more about Theia's likely "birthplace" in the inner Solar System here: mps.mpg.de/theia-and-earth-wer

A new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain.
Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive,
disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue.
When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned.
This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in …

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-18 00:49:51

Slow Radiolysis of Amino Acids in Mars-Like Permafrost Conditions - Applications to the Search for Extant Life on Mars: #Mars? Check the ice, researchers say: psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral - intact biomolecules from dormant microbes degrade far slower in pure water ice than mixed soil samples.

@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-29 09:36:47

Deep learning for interval-censored failure time data from case-cohort studies
Yeyu Xiao, Yonghong Long
arxiv.org/abs/2509.22081 arxiv.org/…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-11-22 06:41:38

This Iconic Rocky Mountain Animal Is Vanishing, Researchers Warn
scitechdaily.com/this-iconic-r

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-11-28 01:32:39

Indian megacities are sinking putting thousands of buildings at risk: Study news.mongabay.com/short-articl

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-28 12:17:01

🥵 Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
techxplore.com/news/2025-12-re

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration into their curved, fully formed shape with only a single pull of a string.
This technique could enable the rapid deployment of a temporary field hospital at the site of a disaster such as a devastating tsunami
— a situation where quick medical action is essential to save lives.
The researchers’ approach converts a user-specified 3D structure into a flat s…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-23 16:50:53

🍽️ Can you really be addicted to food? Researchers are uncovering convincing similarities to drug addiction
theconversation.com/can-you-re

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-08 11:23:41

Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-24 17:05:53

The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
nytimes.com…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-27 14:00:44

"Scientists get a shocking glimpse of Arctic climate change"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-26 17:02:14

Nasal spray as noninvasive brain tumor treatment developed by researchers
thehill.com/policy/healthcare/

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-24 21:50:42

🫘 Researchers turn coffee and plastic waste into climate solution
#chemistry

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-25 12:15:48

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

Any controversy about saturated fat comes from research showing that reducing saturated fat intake can actually be harmful if you replace it with the wrong thing
(processed carbs, sugars.)
But researchers agree that replacing saturated fats with plant based fats, like olive oil, is good for health.

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-27 18:08:19

Italian-made spyware spotted in breaches of Russian, Belarusian systems therecord.media/memento-labs-f

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-16 02:45:05

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites: #SatelliteCommunication: heise.de/en/news/US-Researcher - US researchers have investigated satellite data traffic using commercial equipment; much of it, including security-relevant data, was unencrypted.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-23 21:15:36

Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
news.crunchbase.com/venture/ro

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-27 16:00:56

"Climate change is shrinking children’s height - and humidity is making things worse"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Children

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice
— the oldest on Earth
opb.org/article/2025/12/16/all

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-10-26 23:45:52

Scientists say this simple diet change can improve sleep fast #nutrition

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-27 17:00:56

"Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected"
#Climate #ClimateChange #CoralReef

German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-16 17:32:57

"By examining several widely used AI models designed for cancer detection, the researchers found that performance varied depending on patients’ self-reported gender, race, and age. They also identified multiple reasons why these disparities occur."
What AI Learned From Cancer Slides Shocked Researchers
scitechdaily.com/what-ai-learn

Before you start eating more dark #chocolate and drinking more #coffee, know that the study found an association, not a causal link,
and that it didn’t suggest how much you would have to eat or drink to potentially derive an aging-related benefit.
The facts:
The researchers used data from participants…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-27 14:32:54

🏮 'Chinese lantern' structure shifts into more than a dozen shapes for various applications
techxplore.com/news/2025-10-ch

Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-11-24 00:24:11

WHO’s Cancer Research Arm Finds Atrazine Is Probable Human Carcinogen biologicaldiversity.org/w/news

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-27 13:06:11

🧬 HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-15 22:31:14

Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
arstechnica.com/security/2025/

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-27 18:32:42

🧁 Tiny sugars in the brain disrupt emotional circuits, fueling depression
#brain

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-20 15:45:44

Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/10/20/anthropic-

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-24 16:46:25

In a California farming region, researchers are mapping rural heat to protect farmworkers
phys.org/news/2025-10-californ

Two weeks into the government shutdown
with no resolution in sight,
higher ed associations and researchers say
the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers
or get new grants approved
is causing harm

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-25 11:10:46

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-25 12:00:43

"No major banks have yet committed to stop funding new oil, gas and coal, research finds"
#Banks #Finance #FossilFuels

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-11 13:10:40

Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/te

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-25 20:54:50

🙋 Is the 'hot hand' real? 'Jeopardy!' offers clues
#psychology

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-24 11:25:49

Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google's AlphaMissense (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/bc49e334-776b-4

Tying housing costs to homelessness rates, researchers have identified inflection points:
🔸When rents in a community exceed about a third of the median income, homelessness escalates.
🔸“As the share of low-income households with severe rent burdens grows, so does their risk of homelessness,”
said Thomas Byrne of Boston College, an author of the study.
Gregg Colburn, a housing expert at the University of Washington, found that
Seattle and San Francisco, with so…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-26 17:09:27

🔫 Engineers develop spray to make clothes more fire-resistant
#clothing

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-24 16:21:11

Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
scmp.com/business/companies/ar

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-13 20:58:43

⚠️ An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
theconversation.com/an-importa<…

They Seek to Curb Online Hate.
The Trump Regime Accuses Them of Censorship.
Five Europeans who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet
were barred from entering the United States
after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them
“radical activists”
who undercut free speech.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-19 16:30:55

OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming a GPT-5 math breakthrough after pushback from Hassabis, others; LeCun says they were "hoisted by their own GPTards" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
the-decoder.com/leading-openai

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-25 21:42:05

🌴 Making LAZY plants stand up: Research reveals new pathway plants use to detect gravity
#plants <…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-24 10:46:02

The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platforms under the DSA (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
politico.eu/article/eu-accuses

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-25 22:09:22

🪮 Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip
#laser

“Many researchers worry about the long-term effects of throttling the pipeline of trained scientists.
‘If this keeps up, it would be really devastating for the field, bc this is where the next generation of experts comes from,’
says Emily Levesque,
an astronomer at the Univ of WA in Seattle.”

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-09 04:20:57

Scientists at NeurIPS, which drew a record 26,000 attendees this year, say key questions about how AI models work and how to measure them remain unresolved (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-26 04:56:00

🪡 Nanostructured coatings physically puncture bacteria to prevent biofilm formation
phys.org/news/2025-11-nanostru

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-18 14:51:05

Researchers demonstrated a major WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B users' phone numbers, with 57% also showing a profile photo; Meta fixed the enumeration problem (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
wired.com/story/a-simple-whats

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-26 02:30:10

🤑 Study reveals how financial pressure shapes NFL officiating
#nfl

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found
“the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-23 05:46:07

Top AI researchers and executives in SV are working 80 to 100 hours a week, driven by intense competition, as AI's rapid progress compresses product timelines (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-race-tech-w

The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic
could help spark the immune system to fight cancer.
This is the surprising takeaway of a new study published in the journal Nature.
While developing mRNA vaccines for patients with brain tumors in 2016, our team, led by pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, discovered that mRNA can train immune systems to kill tumors – even if the mRNA is not related to cancer.
Based on this finding…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-17 09:45:44

Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, including sexual content (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)
theregister.com/2025/11/13/ai_

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-24 20:50:03

🫙 Light-triggered process lets 3D printers create custom glass structures without glue or high temperatures
techxplore.com/news/2025-09-tr

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-22 15:45:52

Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/world/2025/nov