How Bruin genetic scientists are reawakening hibernating follicles.

In order to thrive in hostile and ever-changing natural environments, mammalian brains evolved to store large amounts of knowledge about the world and continually integrate new information while...

Self-play has powered breakthroughs in two-player and multi-player games. Here we show that self-play is a surprisingly effective strategy in another domain. We show that robust and naturalistic...

The 28th annual Christmas lecture
Thursday, December 5, 2024

A directed graph can often be best understood and used if we partition its vertices into separate components of various kinds. Most important are the strongly connected components, called “strong…

Update – April 29, 2025:
The Answer Assistant experiment has concluded.

Answer Assistant is an experiment in which AI-generated answers are verified, edited, and curated by the community before be...

A deep dive into HTML whitespace collapsing: How it works, why it sucks, how it should work, and how to deal with it.

One of the most inspiring results from DeepSeek-R1-Zero is the occurrence of “Aha moment” through pure reinforcement learning (RL). At the Aha moment, the model learns emergent skills such as self-reflection, which helps it to conduct in-context search to…

Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Contribute to ImagineAILab/ai-by-hand-excel development by creating an account on GitHub.

A haven for the super rich, or a city built on scams? The BBC was invited to find out.

As some people already mentioned here or here, Copilot purposely stops working on code containing hardcoded banned words from Github such as gender or sex. I am labelling this as a bug because this...

Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

V8’s Math.random implementation now uses an algorithm called xorshift128+, improving the randomness compared to the old MWC1616 implementation.

The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The...

Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.