Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world(ox.ac.uk)

250 points by mudil 1 month ago | 88 comments

The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore(blogs.lse.ac.uk)

179 points by jbotz 2 years ago | 170 comments

Hermit crabs are using trash as shells(bbc.com)

44 points by carabiner 2 years ago | 18 comments

New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic(oist.jp)

103 points by giuliomagnifico 5 days ago | 62 comments

OIST research news release describing 'plasticorals', coral rubble fused with melted plastic found on Okinawa beaches, published in Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers(nature.com)

72 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 63 comments

Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead(bbc.com)

42 points by artninja1988 2 months ago | 25 comments

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order(reuters.com)

547 points by cmrdporcupine 7 days ago | 496 comments

Reuters news article about a DHS order banning the Chinese AI DeepSeek from U.S. federal civilian agency IT systems; the capture shows only a device verification screen.

EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals(appleinsider.com)

481 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 1023 comments

AppleInsider news article reporting that the EU is requiring Apple to open its platforms and features to rival companies.

Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation(arstechnica.com)

523 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 99 comments

Ars Technica article reporting a court dismissed defamation claims against researchers who identified manipulated data, while Harvard still faces trial over its investigation.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf](signal.org)

630 points by g0xA52A2A 4 months ago | 270 comments

Signal's PDF statement opposing a UK government demand that all content on devices be scanned for nudity using age verification and content scanning.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.