Getting a bunch of friends together and hitting the biggest/sketchiest hits around the Bikepark. How good?( Photos: 6, Comments: 4 )
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NASA, SpaceX ‘thread the clouds’ to launch Crew-11 to the International Space Station
The Crew Dragon mission was delayed a day due to cumulus clouds, but had enough clearance to allow for a launch on August 1. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1543 UTC).
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Aug. 2, 1133: A total eclipse is misremembered
Visible in Scotland, the total solar eclipse of Aug. 2, 1133, featured nearly 4½ minutes of totality. This eclipse provides just one of many historical examples of people wrongly associating a celestial spectacle with an earthly event: In his Historia Novella, written between 1140 and 1143, English historian William of […]
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Helio Highlights: July 2025
As NASA and its partners prepare to send astronauts back to the Moon, we must address the potential dangers caused by space weather, which can damage spacecraft and cause physical harm to unprotected astronauts in space.
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Scientists scan famous ‘Earthrise’ crater on mission to find alien life in our solar system
A large lunar crater featured in the iconic ‘Earthrise’ photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its alien-hunting instruments during a once-in-a-lifetime flyby.
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Best of British: A Triumph Scrambler Desert Sled from Indonesia
From the original T120 Bonneville to the TR6 ridden by Steve McQueen and Bud Ekins in the 1964 International Six Days Trial, Triumph’s modern classics descend from a long line of icons. So when Frontwheel Motors was tasked with customizing a 2013-model Triumph Scrambler for a prominent Indonesian DJ, they […]
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Massachusetts hits DraftKings with record $450K fine for accepting credit card bets
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has just handed down its biggest sports betting penalty yet, hitting DraftKings with a $450,000 fine… Continue reading Massachusetts hits DraftKings with record $450K fine for accepting credit card bets The post Massachusetts hits DraftKings with record $450K fine for accepting credit card bets appeared first […]
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At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race
A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.
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Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run
A new study from Anthropic suggests that traits such as sycophancy or evilness are associated with specific patterns of activity in large language models—and turning on those patterns during training can, paradoxically, prevent the model from adopting the related traits. Large language models have recently acquired a reputation for behaving […]
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Anthropic details “persona vectors”, patterns of activity within an AI model’s neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy (Anthropic)
Anthropic: Anthropic details “persona vectors”, patterns of activity within an AI model’s neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy — Read the paper — Language models are strange beasts. In many ways they appear to have human-like “personalities” …