Collaborate Disseminate
Saturday Disneyland announced a special Star Wars-themed collaboration with third-person shooter game Fortnite — including a slick new trailer for its Star Wars: Smuggler’s Gambit quest.
Visitors to Disneyland’s Smuggler’s Run attraction at Disn… Continue reading Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, ‘Avatar’ Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland
Science Daily reports:
Researchers showed that unencrypted signals routinely exchanged between WiFi devices and routers can be used to create radio-based images of people and recognize them within seconds. In tests involving 197 participants, the sys… Continue reading Researchers Use Ordinary WiFi Connections to Create Images of Nearby People and Their Surroundings
When Anthropic instructed three agents to migrate a Python backend, but telling each agent to perform the migration in a different language, “We consistently saw a multiagent turf war,” they wrote Thursday:
All of the models we tested quickly assumed… Continue reading Anthropic Discovers AI Agents Given Conflicting Instructions Soon Tried to Sabotage Each Other
An anonymous reader shares this report from Space.com:
On Saturday evening (Aug. 15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart, besting its old mark — set on … Continue reading SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart
Phys.org reports:
Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural components must hand… Continue reading Copper’s Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:
X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or p… Continue reading X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms
Europe is facing its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures this summer, the New York Times reports. Now climate scientists wonder if global warming is doing more than raise temperatures…
The weather patterns that create heat domes aren’t new,… Continue reading Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves
A “massive influx” of jellyfish forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant this week and reduce output at a fourth, reports Bloomberg. Just as summer temperatures surged, 3.2 gigawatts went offline —… Continue reading How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors
Less than a year ago he was the #1 richest man in the world. 10 weeks ago he was #2. But yesterday Larry Ellison dropped to #8, Forbes reports, falling behind Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Ellison’s net worth is now estimated at just $192.6 billion &mdas… Continue reading How Larry Ellison Dropped From World’s 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months
“An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025,” remembers the BBC. And earlier this year OpenAI “formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), cla… Continue reading AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week – Especially at AI Companies