Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda Galaxy, which the 10th-century Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dubbed a “nebulous smear.” For centuries, the fuzzy object nestled in the night sky between her mythological parents, Cepheus and […]
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaking water like a ‘fire hose running at full blast,’ new study finds
Scientists have spotted the first clear sign of water from an interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, offering new clues to the chemistry of other planetary systems.
Brutal Sophistication: CW Zon’s Custom Triumph Rocket 3
CW Zon’s Yuichi Yoshizawa customizes the bike with the world’s biggest production engine—the monstrous Triumph Rocket 3.The Triumph Rocket 3 is the closest thing to a two-wheeled muscle car that you can buy. Its 2,458 cc triple-cylinder power plant is the largest engine in a production bike, offerin…
Minnesota regulator issues warning on pull-tab machine burglaries
The Minnesota Gambling Control Board and the Department of Public Safety have issued a warning following a spate of burglaries… Continue reading Minnesota regulator issues warning on pull-tab machine burglaries The post Minnesota regulator issues warning on pull-tab machine burglaries appeared first on ReadWrite.
AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents
Anthropic study suggests “poison” training attacks don’t scale with model size.
The Download: mysteries of the immunome, and how to choose a climate tech pioneer
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How healthy am I? My immunome knows the score. Made up of 1.8 trillion cells and trillions more proteins, metabolites, mRNA, and other biomolecules, every person’s immunome is […]
a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor — Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz says only a small subset of AI companies, such as portfolio companies Safe Superintelligence Inc …
Nintendo’s official all-in-one Switch 2 case may be rammed full of storage space, but is it really worth its high asking price?
Nintendo’s official all-in-one Switch 2 case is rammed full of storage space – but I’m not convinced it’s quite worth the high asking price.
First Ride: Transition Brings Back the Iconic Bottlerocket
The Bottlerocket returns with significantly more travel and adjustability than the classic original.( Photos: 23, Comments: 152 )
Are dark matter and dark energy only an illusion?
Ask most astronomers, and they’ll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we observe. But a new study published Sept. 12 in the journal “Galaxies” offers a different scenario: that what […]