AI
Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play
Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
LLMs and World Models
Brain-to-Text Decoding: A Non-invasive Approach via Typing
AI is Stifling Tech Adoption
Robotics
ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot
Biohybrid hand gestures with human muscles
Tech
Single-cell biological lasers
Did ‘Vertigo’ Introduce Computer Graphics to Cinema?
The origin and unexpected evolution of the word “mainframe”
Big Packages or Many Dependencies: Pick which you prefer, but you cannot be mad about both!
Solar Panels Produce Tons of Toxic Waste—Literally
This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years
New York could back off CARB’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule
Microchip company ceases operations, pet owners urged to re-register
Why I Hate Frameworks, Benji Smith.
Why hasn’t commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?
What We’re Fighting For – Edward Zitron
Health
Somatic mutation as an explanation for epigenetic aging
More
Changes in the distribution and pest risk of stored product insects in Europe due to global warming: Need for pan-European pest monitoring and improved food-safety
Scientists Produced a Particle of Light That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions (research paper: Exploring the boundary of quantum correlations with a time-domain optical processor)
How Alcohol Founded America
Chimps Love Onions
There’s a ghost town right at the edge of California’s largest airport