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Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

Outside Interactive, formerly Outside Media, which pivoted from ads to a recurring revenue model, reports 2025 revenue up 23% YoY to $125M and its first profit (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/outside-interactive-profit-transformation/

Outside Interactive Posted Its First Profit—But It’s No longer Just a Media Company
The platform brought in $125 million in 2025, over 60% of which came from recurring lines of revenue.

Over two days of questioning
during his Senate confirmation hearings last year,
Robert F Kennedy Jr repeated the same answer.
He said the closely scrutinized trip he took to Samoa in 2019,
which came ahead of a devastating measles outbreak,
had “nothing to do with vaccines”.
Documents obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press undermine that testimony.
Emails sent by staff at the US embassy and the United Nations provide, for the first time, …

Early wild card bets: How to bet Packers-Bears, Bills-Jaguars https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47499394/2025-nfl-playoffs-wild-card-betting-odds-props-early-picks-predictions-first-bet

So Intel have added a so-called On-Die Certifying Authority (ODCA) with ME gen 3 version 15 based platforms.
That is also explained in the recent CSME whitepaper.
I figured that the FTPR CPD manifest contains a new extension now for certificate revocation, including a URL to CRL data.
That extension's data itself is encoded as ASN.1 DER, so I need yet another parser. Uh-oh... which one should I choose, does anyone have recent experiences to share? 🙃
I am checking t…

Cowboys Rookie RB Jaydon Blue Sends Honest Message After Breakout Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jaydon-blue-breakout-game/

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

Anybody knows, at which time (and with which product) the "reading receipt" ("Lesebestätigung") came up for e-mail? Was it with some early Outlook/Exchange version, or in some earlier messaging system? Lotus Notes maybe?
For chat, probably Blackberry was the first to introduce status like "delivered" and "read". But I wonder, when it began for mails. #techhistory

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

An excellent review of #StarTrek #StarFleetAcademy which fits my viewing experience except I've been watching Star Trek since it first came out on NBC. https://infosec.exchange/@j4yc33/115948886318982523

Early Week 18 bets: Ravens-Steelers to be a slugfest, Drake Maye for MVP https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47445480/2025-nfl-week-18-betting-odds-props-early-pick-predictions-first-bet

Early Week 17 bets: Back Steelers to win AFC North, Lions to keep playoff hopes alive https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47387778/2025-nfl-week-17-betting-odds-props-early-pick-predictions-first-bet

Early Week 16 bets: Broncos over Jaguars, Drake Maye to win MVP among picks https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47257378/2025-nfl-week-16-betting-odds-props-early-pick-predictions-first-bet

It is now 2026 in the island of Kiritimati which is part of the Republic of Kiribati. 🎉
Read about how this island came to be in the first time zone, and a few other odd and sad things about the region:
#NewYear #HappyNewYear #happy2026 #history #timezones #trivia