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participants reported developing shallower knowledge from LLM summaries even when the results were augmented by real-time web links

redistribution and polarization are the lowest in networks with maximum assortativity, where participants are segregated by wealth, and the highest in networks where the rich are most visible. Furthermore, segregation keeps the poor poorest but satisfied, while observing the rich makes them dissatisfied despite becoming better off. These findings suggest that political communication and policy strategies aiming to increase support for redistribution should enhance the visibility of excessive wealth. 

Tattooed participants had higher risks of skin cancers — including melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma — as well as lymphoma, with hazards rising further for tattoos larger than a palm. In one arm of the study, large tattoos were linked to a 2.7-fold higher hazard of lymphoma and more than double the risk of skin cancer.

For the past couple of weeks, there has been an ongoing uproar from Oura customers following the announcement of a partnership between the wearable smart ring maker, and the U.S. Department of War and Palantir. 

...a spokesperson for Oura tells me that the company has received government demands for customers' data.

An important component of this highway is a region in the center of the brain called the thalamus, which not only helps select which memories should be remembered, but routes them to cortex for long-term stabilization.

The model suggests that, after the basic memory is formed in the hippocampus, Camta1 and its targets ensure the initial persistence of the memory. With time, Tcf4 and its targets are activated providing cell adhesion and structural support to further maintain the memory. Finally, Ash1l recruits chromatin remodeling programs that make the memory more persistent.

“Unless you promote memories onto these timers, we believe you’re primed to forget it quickly,” Rajasethupathy says.

The results suggest that long-term memory is not maintained by a single molecular on-and-off switch, but by a cascade of gene-regulating programs that unfold over time and across brain regions like a series of molecular timers.

First, a former physician used his personal email address in a meeting group, contrary to hospital policy. Second, the meeting organizer did not remove the physician from the meeting invite following his departure in June 2023, according to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.
As a result, when the physician installed Otter.ai on a personal device in September 2024, the transcription tool was able to access the rounds meeting invite via the physician's personal digital calendar.
...it wasn't clear whether the physician even realized the Otter.ai bot had attended the meeting on his behalf and recorded it – or whether it had done so for other meetings as well.
“That’s a whole level of autonomy and independence that we haven’t been prepared for but need to start thinking about,”

Tsinghua has produced more of the world’s 100 most-cited AI research papers than any other school, and the university generates more AI-related patents each year than MIT, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard combined. Between 2005 and the end of 2024, Tsinghua researchers filed 4,986 AI and machine-learning patents—including more than 900 last year

The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful conversion of thorium-uranium nuclear fuel, the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced.

"This design not only improves fuel utilisation but also significantly reduces the generation of radioactive nuclear waste, which is one of the advantages of thorium-based molten salt reactors."

"We've had the highest number of management positions within TriMet's personnel than we've ever had with the lowest number of employees that we've ever had."