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Animals may have evolved 200M years earlier than we thought
Re:Central bankers discussing impact of AI agents on financial markets
on Monday August 31, 2026 @12:38PM (#49511737)
'In Brunnermeier's telling, AI is so much better at processing information than humans that it will soon have the advantage of knowing with near certainty what central bankers will do even before those policymakers know it themselves, and can therefore devise trading and other strategies to circumvent those actions and turn a profit -- legally or otherwise.'
If folks think the capital markets are a crap shoot now, wait until they see the knock on emergent effects of bands of AI agents teaming up to rig them.
OpenAI hack shows emergent AI risks
Polar Researchers Fearan Ecological Collapse in the Arctic
A new lawsuit against OpenAI could challenge rule protecting online content
Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline
Re:Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans
on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @02:28PM (#45043203)
Note the collaboration with Indigenous communities regarding the use of ancestral remains for this research.
Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans
Tiny microbes may rewire the brain before birth
Mysterious Denisovan interbreeding shaped the humans we are today
Van Hollen accuses Trump of pay-to-play on chips
Claude Code's copious coddling confounds cross customers
GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI
Want a glass of wine with dinner? Blame our ape ancestors
Re:Spiders may have originated in the ocean before adapting to live on...
on Friday July 25, 2025 @08:02PM (#44689967)
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on the subject. I was unaware that this is one of the most mysterious topics in zoology.
The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain
Re:The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain
on Friday July 25, 2025 @07:55PM (#44689913)
The title is misleading, but a nice introduction to how we use convergent evolution to determine why a body part evolved.
Spiders may have originated in the ocean before adapting to live on land
OpenAI warns against tokenized stock offered by Robinhood
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a meltdown
Re:What LLMs Know About Their Users
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:29AM (#44378437)
The latter.
Re:Testing free will: New experiments on the quantum property that baf...
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:20AM (#44378341)
Fingers crossed that they can determine the mechanism behind non-locality.
Testing free will: New experiments on the quantum property that baffled Einstein
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on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:30PM (#44323132)
I’m surprised that the stability of genomic structure at the linear level across species may not be as essential as thought.
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on Sunday June 01, 2025 @12:20PM (#44151968)
Amazing that these 'living fossils' survived in these small pockets of forest that are the only remnant of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. How many other endemic species are clinging on in tiny spots around the globe?
Cognizant's CEO on staying ahead of the tech jobs 'tsunami' in an AI world
Re:AI coding startup Replit CEO says companies soon won't need softwar...
on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:11AM (#44062870)
Latest Claude LLM writes passable drafts of product documentation, such as tutorials, so I expect similar impact for technical writers. In my tests, the code samples all worked on the first prompt. Verifying code samples is much faster than writing them, but that was my favorite part of the career.
AI coding startup Replit CEO says companies soon won't need software developers
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on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @10:30AM (#44051834)
I was unaware of the existence of purely self-pollinating plants.