The “abliterators” are flooding the internet with AI models that never say no, making it easier for people to improve their cyberdefenses—or build a bomb.
Author: Michael
The risk of nuclear catastrophe is real, as is the fallout of the China–US domination game (hi there, spies). But no need to panic about Skynet.
The Huupe Mini 2 can count baskets, stream shows, and challenge strangers, but I’d settle for a working power button.
In 1974, the University of Melbourne’s chemistry professor Richard Robson had the idea of replacing the wooden balls and metal rods used in structural models with molecules and chemical bonds. He began experimenting with copper ions linked by a four-armed organic molecule, creating a structure with a cavity. His work laid the foundation for metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of porous materials formed by linking metal ions with organic molecules. Their pores can capture pollutants, support chemical reactions and store gases, giving MOFs a wide range of potential applications.
About a century ago, the Anaconda Copper Mine complex near Butte, Montana, was emitting vast amounts of air pollution into the atmosphere. As small particles of arsenic and other heavy metals were carried by winds over the Arctic, storms eventually helped pull them to the ground, where they joined layers of history embedded in the ice.
NASA announced the development of an experimental aircraft designed to explore new flight capabilities, although details about its design and operation remain under wraps.
Toxic metals can harm human health. Arctic ice cores trace arsenic, lead and other heavy metals to historic mining and smelting in Montana.
Archaeological excavation uncovers the past but also changes the landscape that has preserved sites for centuries or millennia. These changes influence water flow, soil erosion and the stability of exposed remains. Researchers from Istanbul Technical University and the U.S. have shown how computer models can assist archaeologists in understanding and planning for these effects, especially regarding erosion risks. Using an Early Bronze Age settlement in Türkiye as a case study, they reconstructed the landscape before and after excavation.
Global carbon pollution dropped this year ever so slightly, but it’s more because of oil shocks reverberating from the Iran war than anything the world has done to fight climate change, scientists said in a new study.
A researcher’s trawl through publicly available code found private information was at risk across multiple departments.