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consumer-grade hardware can run an LLM that hacks the planet. we can stop it, but we don't have much time.

Fixing them won’t cure everything, and not right away, but it’s a start

The necessary wet mass grows exponentially with the desired delta-v.

Tesla and SpaceX confirmed Terafab, their ‘largest-ever’ chip fab, will rise in Grimes County, Texas, with a $16.8 billion first phase and 100M sq ft.

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Bad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better way

ZKPs are often advanced as a technical remedy, promising privacy-preserving attestations of age or eligibility. Yet their deployment in practice exposes both conceptual and practical limits.

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The move comes the same day as a new OpenAI model sees a limited release.

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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President Donald Trump has proposed pausing the country’s 18.4-cent gas tax.

Expanded collaborations with leading U.S. AI labs provide for pre-deployment evaluations and other research.

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Kim Stanley Robinson opens his classic science fiction novel Red Mars in 2026. As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on reading it in April, he looks back on its origins – and how the idea of moving ...

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Autonomous vehicles from companies like Waymo and Zoox are set to trigger an increase in car usage that clogs urban streets. Cities should prepare now.

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The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Buc-ee's received a shocking "F" rating from the Better Business Bureau, despite a massive cult following and aggressive expansion plans across 11 states nationwide.

Iran’s blockage of Hormuz may benefit China as champion of renewable electrification more than the US — given time.

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is "about as wrong as things could go" for global oil markets. Iran achieved it not with a naval blockade, but with cheap drones.

It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...