Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study(news.northeastern.edu)

43 points by sni 2 years ago | 10 comments

Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them(news.northeastern.edu)

299 points by micquigley0318 2 years ago | 148 comments

Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023)(smithsonianmag.com)

127 points by michalpleban 1 year ago | 63 comments

Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Mason University Students(wowparrot.com)

14 points by taubek 1 year ago | 9 comments

Press freedom means controlling the language of AI(niemanlab.org)

13 points by marban 3 years ago | 13 comments

Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct from activism'(yaledailynews.com)

90 points by crescit_eundo 2 years ago | 152 comments

Crows are even smarter than we thought(nautil.us)

443 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 236 comments

Nautilus article by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry on new evidence that crows and other corvids have surprising mental abilities.

A third of North America’s birds have vanished(nautil.us)

478 points by geox 3 years ago | 392 comments

Nautilus zoology article reporting that roughly a third of North America's bird population has disappeared in recent decades.

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times(nexanet.ai)

456 points by fuck_flock 9 months ago | 147 comments

Nexanet threat intel blog post reporting that Flock Safety hardcoded a password 53 times across its surveillance infrastructure software.

Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos(nature.com)

34 points by bryanrasmussen 26 days ago | 4 comments

Open-access Scientific Reports article studying body awareness in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).