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Submission + - Masturbate more to lower your risk of cancer (nypost.com) 1

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Dr. Lorelei Mucci, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a co-author of emerging research on prostate cancer and ejaculation, told The Post that her team has come across some interesting patterns.

Data from a long-term health and lifestyle study assessing more than 50,000 men since 1986 suggests that those who ejaculate 21 or more times per month had a 19-22% lower risk of prostate cancer than those who came less, she said.

“The ’21 or more’ isn’t a strict biological magic number, but rather a finding that emerged from our robust statistical analysis,” Mucci explained, adding that her team has even observed small reductions in risk for men who ejaculated only eight times per month.

Submission + - Scientists Engineered a Plant to Produce 5 Different Psychedelics at Once (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: What do plants, toads, and mushrooms have in common? They can all produce psychedelic substances â" and now their powers have been combined in one plant, like a trippier Captain Planet.

In a wild first, scientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant (Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously.

Submission + - Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying (stacker.news)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Lawmakersare pressing the nation's top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercialVPN servicesrisk being treated as foreigners under United States surveillance law—a classification that would strip them of constitutional protections against warrantless government spying. Lawmakers pressed Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.

In a letter sent Thursday to Director of National IntelligenceTulsi Gabbard, the lawmakers say that because VPNs obscure a user's true location, and because intelligence agencies presume that communications of unknown origin are foreign, Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they're entitled to under the law.

Several federal agencies, including the FBI, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Trade Commission, haverecommendedthat consumers use VPNs toprotect their privacy. But following that advice may inadvertently cost Americans the very protections they're seeking.

Comment Re:Shooting themselves in the foot. (Score 1) 72

Totally agree, they are going about this from exactly the wrong direction. 30+ years ago we used data warehouses/data marts to create what we called expert systems that when queried responded using valid curated data to help make business decisions. And they were purpose built around the data set they used. This is the direction (back to the future?) that these AI developers need to go to make useful 'AI', instead of one mega 'AI' that has all the data and spits out baloney as a result, they should be building multiple purpose built 'AI's that give accurate responses to thier area of expertise using validated and curated data. So you might have a Chef AI for that domain, a Math AI, a stock market AI, etc, that only are able to give answers in thier domain from using curated data. This would also make them vastly more efficient in adition to being more useful.

Submission + - Transporting antimatter on a truck is tricky ...

Submitted by Qbertino
Qbertino writes: ... but the CERN Project "Antimatter in motion" just did it. For the first time in history researchers at CERN have transported 92 antiprotons on a truck in a specially designed magnetic enclosure. The test-drive went so well that the researchers spontaneously decided to go another round. One hard pothole could cause the antiprotons to exit their magnetic enclosure and be destroyed. The purpose of the experiment was to test the feasibility of transporting antimatter to other facilities in Europe to conduct further antimatter research. German news Tagesschau has a nice report.

Submission + - The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025.

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