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Submission + - Chinese biolab found inside Las Vegas home. (go.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Local and federal investigators in Las Vegas are actively working to determine what substances were found inside a home described as a possible biological lab, with over 1,000 samples sent for testing, authorities said.

In the garage, investigators found multiple refrigerators with vials of unknown liquids, unknown liquids in gallon-size containers, a centrifuge and other laboratory equipment, authorities said.

In an open refrigerator and freezer, investigators saw a "significant volume of material," including vials and storage containers "with liquids of different colors and compositions," McMahill said.

The person arrested on Saturday — identified as Ori Solomon, 55 — is believed to be the property manager at the location, according to McMahill.

Solomon has been charged with felony disposal/ discharge of hazardous waste in an unauthorized manner and remains in custody, according to court records.

The owner of the property was arrested and charged in 2023 in connection with an investigation into an illegal bio lab in Reedley, California, authorities said. The owner, a Chinese national, remains in federal custody and has pleaded not guilty.

Submission + - Say hello to GoogleSQL (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Google has quietly retired the ZetaSQL name and rebranded its open source SQL analysis and parsing project as GoogleSQL. This is not a technical change but a naming cleanup meant to align the open source code with the SQL dialect already used across Google products like BigQuery and Spanner. Internally, Google has long called the dialect GoogleSQL, even while the open source project lived under a different name.

By unifying everything under GoogleSQL, Google says it wants to reduce confusion and make it clearer that the same SQL foundation is shared across its cloud services and open source tooling. The code, features, and team remain unchanged. Only the name is different. GoogleSQL is now the single label Google wants developers to recognize and use going forward.

Submission + - Valve's counter-suit of a patent troll headed to jury trial (iipla.org)

Submitted by doug141
doug141 writes: Valve is counter-suing a patent troll and his attorneys alleging a bad-faith abuse of the justice system. The case could not be going worse for the troll. It is headed for jury trial next month. The outcome of the trial will likely have far-reaching implications for the parties involved and could set a precedent for intellectual property disputes.

Submission + - Researchers completely eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice. (www.cnio.es)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: Mariano Barbacid, head of the Experimental Oncology Group at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), has designed a therapy that successfully eliminates pancreatic tumours in mice completely and durably, with no significant side effects. The study is published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), with Carmen Guerra as co-lead author and Vasiliki Liaki and Sara Barrambana as first authors.

Current drugs for pancreatic cancer lose effectiveness within months because the tumour becomes resistant. The group from Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has been able to avoid the development of resistance in animal models with a combined triple therapy.

These results “pave the way for the design of combined therapies that may improve survival,” the authors indicate, although this will not happen in the short term. The results are published in PNAS.

Comment evidence links the GRU's Unit 29155 to attacks (Score 1) 72

by doug141 (#65924102) Attached to: Pentagon Purchases a Device Allegedly Linked To Havana Syndrome

https://theins.ru/en/politics/...
"A yearlong investigation by The Insider, in collaboration with 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel, has uncovered evidence suggesting that unexplained anomalous health incidents, also known as Havana Syndrome, may have their origin in the use of directed energy weapons wielded by members of Russian GRU Unit 29155. Members of the Kremlin’s infamous military intelligence sabotage squad have been placed at the scene of suspected attacks on overseas U.S. government personnel and their family members, leading victims to question what Washington knows about the origins of Havana Syndrome, and what an appropriate Western response might entail."

Comment Re:The return of the Luddites (Score 1) 129

by doug141 (#65744680) Attached to: More Than 1,100 Public Figures Call for Ban on AI Superintelligence

A huge point in the book is making the distinction that huge LLM AIs are being "grown" instead of "built." According to the book, that makes it very different from almost every other invention. They have already been seen having bizarre inscrutable internal states (i.e. "solidgoldmagickarp"), and their own goals.

Comment Re:The return of the Luddites (Score 2) 129

by doug141 (#65743102) Attached to: More Than 1,100 Public Figures Call for Ban on AI Superintelligence

Except that it will be the first invention of man that can have its own opaque goals, with self preservation being among them. You should read "If Anyone Anywhere Builds It, Everyone Everywhere Dies." In their doomsday scenario, there is no "people who use AI" as you say, just people who lost control of it. Here's it is in video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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