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Comment Unholy Blasphemies (Score 0) 91

1. Embrace AI. For no other reason than that every useful technology, no matter how dodgy it was at first, has taken over.

2. Quality over quantity. The question is not yes/no on AI, but how to make AI work for us. I suggest manufacturing.

3. Don't be a Chinese stooge. The Chinese oppose American data centers for obvious reasons.

Submission + - Mushroom Behind 'Tiny Human' Visions Lacks Genes For Known Psychedelics (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: When eaten undercooked, the mushroom can produce vivid visions of miniature people â" not unlike Gulliver on his travels to Lilliput.

"Biosynthetic gene mining of the L. asiatica genome found no close hits with any genes known in the production of mushroom psychoactive compounds," write the researchers in their published paper.

"This supports our hypothesis of the presence of a novel unidentified metabolite responsible for the unique hallucinogenic properties of L. asiatica."

Submission + - It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests (404media.co) 1

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alternative_right writes: The Cornell research finds that deep research agents, which are the real-time scrapers that tools like Google AI search and ChatGPT use to retrieve web content with citations in response to user queries, cite user-generated content from sites like Reddit or Wikipedia in roughly half of all queries, and that nearly a quarter of all citations come from user-generated websites. The paper suggests that what we have been seeing is basically Redditor suggests you put glue on your pizza as a service, or an end-to-end attack against the systems that increasingly dominate the ways that people access information online. The researchers found that âoea single poisoned Reddit comment can influence generated outputs for an entire cluster of related [AI] queries,â the paper said.

âoeWe show that a tiny snippetâ"just 13 wordsâ"of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, Facebook, etc. can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently,â Triedman told 404 Media.

Submission + - FBI issues urgent Kali365 security warning for Teams, Outlook, OneDrive users (thehill.com)

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alternative_right writes: The FBI released an urgent security warning to the public about a fast-acting scam targeting Microsoft 365 users on Teams, Outlook and OneDrive. The agency warned that the hacking platform Kali365 seeks out OAuth device codes, allowing scammers to sneak past multi-factor authentication codes, and without the need for a password, to access Microsoft accounts.

Submission + - OpenDoor Ends India Operations (x.com)

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alternative_right writes: "I shared this note earlier today with the entire team at Opendoor.

Today we began to say goodbye to our colleagues in India as we wind down our India operations.

Our customers are in America, and that's where our operational work belongs."

Comment Natural end of life (Score 1) 74

She was 89. This is what happens to most people around that age: they die of heart attacks or other health events that are part of old age and natural death. Your options are to keep her alive in medicalized stasis or to let nature take its course. This lawsuit was another shakedown and we will all pay higher bills as a result.

Submission + - Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search (404media.co)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material that those chatbots will scrapeâ"in this case, a popular Reddit community.

Submission + - Physicists Just Achieved 'Perfect Randomness' For The First Time Ever (sciencealert.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: To try to find a solution to this problem, the researchers turned to a quantum experiment known as the Bell test.

They created a pair of entangled quantum bits, or qubits, separated by 30 meters (98 feet) and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero.

The ETH Zurich team instead demonstrated something called randomness amplification, deliberately starting with imperfect randomness â" taking randomness that may contain subtle flaws or biases and transforming it into randomness that can be certified as perfectly unpredictable.

Submission + - Something Made Earth's Molten Core Reverse Direction in 2010 (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth's outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet's usual westward flow.

This happened in 2010, according to satellite measurements of Earth's magnetic field, and scientists are still trying to figure out what caused it.

Submission + - Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (sciencedaily.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, researchers can effectively âoeseeâ and recognize individuals â" even if they are not carrying a device and even if their phone is turned off.

Submission + - Brain scans reveal a shocking difference between psychopaths and other people (sciencedaily.com)

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alternative_right writes: Scientists have uncovered a striking brain difference linked to psychopathy: people with psychopathic traits were found to have a striatum â" a brain region tied to reward, motivation, and decision-making â" that was about 10% larger on average than those without such traits. Using MRI scans and psychological assessments on 120 participants, researchers connected this enlarged brain region to thrill-seeking, impulsive behavior, and a stronger drive for stimulation.

Submission + - Scientists found the âoeholy grailâ gene that could one day help human (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Scientists studying axolotls, zebrafish, and mice have uncovered a shared set of genes that may one day help humans regrow lost limbs. By identifying powerful âoeSP genesâ involved in regeneration, researchers discovered that disabling these genes stopped proper bone regrowth in salamanders and mice. They then used a gene therapy inspired by zebrafish biology to partially restore regeneration in mice, marking a major step toward future treatments that could replace damaged limbs with living tissue instead of prosthetics.

Submission + - How Laboratory Tests Fail in Application (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: Most studies showing that houseplants remove pollutants share a fundamental design feature: small, sealed chambers with artificially high concentrations of pollutants introduced as a single high dose. A plant is placed inside the chamber, concentrations of pollutants are measured over time and a removal rate is calculated. This design works well for comparing plants to each other. It works poorly for predicting what happens in your home.

The critical missing variable is what building scientists call the air exchange rate. This is how quickly outdoor air naturally replaces indoor air through gaps, walls and ventilation systems. In a real building, this constant dilution is already doing the heavy lifting on pollutant concentration. When a 2019 study modeled plant performance against real-world air exchange rates, it found you would need between ten and 1,000 plants per square meter to match what a building's passive ventilation already achieves.

So the scientifically defensible answer is: houseplants can remove some pollutants, but they are not an effective standalone air-cleaning solution for homes. That does not mean the earlier studies were "wrong." It means their results were often overextended into everyday settings where the physics of indoor air are very different.

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