Scientists built a lie detector for video, and it runs on light
Deepfakes have spent 2026 getting cheaper, slicker and lawsuit-grade dangerous, while the tools meant to catch them kept losing the […]
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A national lab measured the quantum computers and the stock market didn’t notice
Sandia’s new QUOPS benchmark says every quantum computer tested is about five orders of magnitude short of breaking encryption or doing useful chemistry. Quantum stocks celebrated with a 9% rally.
We’re Putting Chatbots In Charge Of Spaceships Now Because No One Has Seen 2001: A Space Odyssey Apparently
Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge has looked at the plot of every killer-AI film ever made and thought: yes, but faster. Its
Is a Home AI Actually Greener? How to Make Your DIY AI as Eco-Friendly as Possible
The honest answer on whether home AI is greener (not automatically), and the concrete ways to make it so: right-sizing models with automated routing (LiteLLM, RouteLLM), killing idle power, capping GPU draw, reusing waste heat, and solar. Part 9, the finale of Own Your AI.
OpenAI Says 10,000 AI Agents Cracked a $1M Math Problem. Then a Fight Broke Out.
OpenAI says one of its unreleased models just solved a problem that has beaten the finest human mathematicians for over
A Half-Built Telescope Caught a Dying Star Being Recycled
The plan was deliberately dull. Point a new telescope at the Helix Nebula, take a test shot, check the lenses
Three Black Holes, One Galaxy: Webb Spots a Cosmic First
Somewhere about 12.5 billion light-years away sits a galaxy with a problem most galaxies would envy. It has three supermassive
The Dodo Wasn’t Stupid. We Were
A new CT study of rare dodo skulls finds owl-like night vision and a sharp sense of smell. The ‘stupid bird’ label was always a slander.
Scientists Found a Stretchy New Beetle and Named the Whole Genus After One Piece’s Luffy
A rove beetle with absurdly elongated mouthparts got a new genus named Luffy, after the rubber pirate from One Piece. The meme has a serious point.
The Sun Has an Off Switch, and It Handed Us a Seven-Year Weather Warning
University of Warwick physicists found a ‘switch-off’ moment in the Sun that forecasts the next solar cycle’s strength six to seven years early.