A large team of chemists at Harvard University has found evidence that cloud-to-ground lightning strikes may have played a key role in generating building blocks for life on Earth. In their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers set up an experiment to mimic early Earth conditions and simulated … Read more
Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue with publishing partners, following weeks of plagiarism accusations. The “Publishers’ Program” has recruited its first batch of partners, including prominent names like Time, Der Spiegel, Fortune, and others. Under this program, publishers will receive a share of the ad revenue when Perplexity features their content in … Read more
Microsoft is investigating a widespread outage affecting some Microsoft 365 and Azure services. Users are reporting issues connecting to the Microsoft 365 admin center, opening the Service Health Status page, and experiencing timeouts while using Azure services. The company says the incident only affects users worldwide and a subset of its services. Multiple engineering teams … Read more
Hey, remember Windows XP? That operating system from 2001 that’s still fondly remembered by many. But with no updates since 2014, it’s no longer safe or secure. YouTuber Eric Parker decided to test this by going online with an old Windows XP computer without any protection. He quickly found malware on his system – just … Read more
The Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) is a type of neural network that efficiently learns sparse representations of data by enforcing sparsity to capture only the most important data characteristics for fast feature learning. This helps reduce dimensionality, simplifying complex datasets while keeping crucial information. Researchers have introduced JumpReLU SAEs, which use a modified ReLU activation function … Read more
Tesla AI5 chips will be used for volume production in 2026, while Teslabot will start production in 2025. The cost of a humanoid robot is estimated to be around $20,000. Tesla FSD for Cybertruck is expected to be released in mid-August. The power demand issues with the GPU and Dojo AI training clusters require significant … Read more
Meta is launching a new tool called AI Studio, allowing anyone in the US to create AI versions of themselves on Instagram or online. Creators and business owners will use these AI profiles to talk to their followers on their behalf. The AI can respond to comments and engage in chat threads with humans. To … Read more
Coal firms in Indonesia, a major emitter of CO2, are ignoring the impact of methane emissions from their operations, according to a report published Monday. Methane is responsible for one-third of warming caused by greenhouse gases and is a key target for countries aiming to reduce emissions quickly. The London-based energy think tank Ember analyzed … Read more
Attackers Exploit ‘EvilVideo’ Telegram Zero-Day to Hide Malware Telegram has patched a zero-day flaw found in older versions of its chat and media-sharing application for Android that allows attackers to hide malicious payloads in video files. The exploit, dubbed “EvilVideo,” requires user action to download an unspecified malicious payload. Researchers from ESET Research discovered the … Read more
Apple said in a technical paper on Monday that the two AI models underpinning Apple Intelligence, its AI system, were pretrained on Google-designed chips in the cloud. This signals that some Big Tech companies may be looking for alternatives to Nvidia’s graphics processing units when it comes to AI training. The artificial intelligence models were … Read more