For the First Time, Scientists Trapped an Elusive Antimatter Particle—and Contained It for Months. It Could Allow Them to Test an Enduring Physics Theory — Smithsonian Magazine

The standard model of particle physics works really well, but it can't explain why the universe exists. Something is missing, and this trapped particle might hold a clue to the answer

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No Wonder We Can't Read the Voynich Manuscript—Its Pages Are Probably Out of Order — Gizmodo

“This means that any research that relies on the current sequence of pages needs to be revisited, since the manuscript is out of order.”

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Neural Networks Are Already Clean

A working hypothesis about neurons, generalization, and the ecology of circuits.

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An LLM Beat NetHack

To my knowledge, the first recorded LLM-agent NetHack ascension

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In One of Rome’s Most Famed and Neglected Villas, Centuries-Old Risqué Frescoes, Painted Over by Nuns, Have Reappeared — Smithsonian Magazine

Nearly a year into a $40 million restoration of the Villa Silvestri Rivaldi, conservators are rediscovering and reviving 16th-century art

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Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason — MIT Technology Review

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five...

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Two Thousand Years Ago, Julius Caesar Conquered the Settlement That Eventually Became Paris. Archaeologists May Have Just Found It — Smithsonian Magazine

While conducting excavations at a hospital on the Île de la Cité, in the Seine River, researchers discovered part of a wall that may have once protected Lutetia, the Gallic precursor to France’s capit...

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From the MachineLearning community on Reddit: Qwen-family LLMs are quietly becoming the backbone of modern audio models; One chart for the architectures of 100+ audio models [R]

Explore this post and more from the MachineLearning community

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Windows 10 is more stable than Windows 11 in 2026, data shows — PCWorld

A new analysis shows Windows 11's monthly updates keep breaking things while Windows 10 runs into far fewer problems month to month. Managing Editor, PC-WELT | Sep 25, 2026 In summary: Summary created...

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For months, OpenAI's agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts — TechCrunch

The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.

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Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data — Ars Technica

War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract — Ars Technica

City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.

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Windows 11 emergency update: Microsoft races to fix bugs — Mashable

The latest patch fixes issues created by the September Patch Tuesday update last week.

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Why Codex burns a weekly limit in a day while the agent waits for the tide | Relux Works

Spin-waiting in Codex CLI: goal mode restarts the model 0.03 seconds after every turn and demands proof of waiting by live polling, the pause tool is issued to one model in the catalog, and every poll...

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Have You Protested AI Recently? Anthropic May Be Watching You for Precrimes — CNET

A recent report alleges Anthropic is finding ways to monitor activists and surveil dissent.

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ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral — Ars Technica

Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

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OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

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Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent

A Blog post by IBM Research on Hugging Face

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I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead

California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.

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Was This Cold War NSA Computer Secretly the World’s Fastest Machine? — IEEE Spectrum

It ran its jobs 200 times as fast as any other computer on Earth

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IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs — Ars Technica

The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.

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This Body Part Is 'Useless' But Scientists Still Want To Understand It — BGR

Not all parts of the body have an immediately obvious purpose, but that doesn't mean they're actually useless, whether for modern humans, or our ancestors.

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The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised — The Atlantic

New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves.

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