When two rusty iron balls—one wrapped in aluminum foil—are struck together, sparks and light are given off in this small scale thermite reaction. Video of Microscope Thermite Reaction can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5VXt0hZOc8 What it Shows…

Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra
Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership
to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the
company to a newly…

The ads with a repetitive jingle encouraging people to donate cars do not disclose that most of the proceeds go to a Jewish organization in New Jersey, the judge ruled.

"Patriotic" UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

States are awarding more than $5.6 billion annually to data center developers, and that’s a conservative estimate.

Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.

US tech surveillance firm Palantir has hired 32 senior UK government and public sector officials since 2012, it has been reported ...

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about…

Britain's civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time.

The company said the vehicles, which use AI to drive, had encountered "a routing problem" that kept taking them to the same cul-de-sac.

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Since around 2009, methamphetamines have been made with phenylacetone (P2P). Is there a chemical different causing schizophrenia?

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In the wake of a devastating supply chain attack in the npm registry that left millions of enterprise applications compromised and billions of user records exposed, developers across the JavaScript ecosystem expressed deep sorrow today…

An exercise in spotting agenda journalism: dissecting a 2022 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 article on teen vaping sentence by sentence to show how it pins an EVALI hospitalization on legal nicotine vapes while never quite saying so—since the actual cause was illegal THC…

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