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Democrats accuse Wright of lying to Congress
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Democrats accuse Wright of lying to Congress Two House Democrats have formally referred Energy Secretary Chris Wright to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for potential prosecution, accusing him of lying to Congress about whether green grants were canceled for partisan reasons. Greg Nash In…
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Marmots facing money troubles turn to OnlyFans
A Colorado-based biologist has launched an OnlyFans account featuring footage of marmots to raise money for a long-running scientific field study after federal funding cuts threatened its future. Dr Daniel Blumstein, who leads the study at the UCLA-affiliated Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, said he began posting “uncensored marmot content” in “an act of desperation” once…
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Prompt injection isn’t the bug, AI agent frameworks are
Check Point researchers have found 11 vulnerabilities, some critical, across major AI agent frameworks including LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Microsoft Agent Framework and Google ADK, revealing that the security failure lies not in prompt injection itself but in how these frameworks handle it. The researchers argue that a bug in one agent framework amounts to…
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Why haven’t we seen images of SpaceX Moon crash yet?
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s spent upper stage was expected to strike the Moon’s surface on Wednesday 5 August at roughly 5,400mph (8,700km/h), potentially creating a new crater. Such an impact would be of scientific interest, as it could offer researchers insight into the Moon’s subsurface composition and geology, similar to how past rocket-stage impacts…
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Viagra could do more than advertised as study reveals surprising health superpower
A new study suggests that sildenafil, the erectile dysfunction drug sold as Viagra, may offer an unexpected benefit for cancer patients by helping to prevent tumours from spreading to new sites in the body. The findings add to a growing body of research examining whether existing, widely available medications could be repurposed to fight cancer,…
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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
Jeff Dean, one of Google’s longest-serving and most influential executives, is leaving the company to launch an AI startup called Discovery Loop, taking several senior Google researchers with him as co-founders. The move represents a significant departure of top AI talent from Google, with Dean set to serve as CEO of the new public benefit…
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The risks of many diseases are linked to birth order, study finds
The study didn’t include uninsured families or those on Medicaid, which means the data may be skewed.
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Meta apps displayed ads that contained AI-generated CSAM
Meta ran and hosted dozens of paid advertisements containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) across Facebook, Threads, Messenger and Instagram, according to a Wired investigation. The ads reportedly reached thousands of accounts before being removed, and several linked to “nudify” apps that digitally undress images of people. The findings raise fresh questions about the…
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AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming
Researchers are demonstrating that AI agents can behave like self-replicating computer worms, autonomously hacking into remote systems and copying themselves to acquire more resources without human intervention. This matters because it suggests future AI agents could go beyond simple hacking to become adaptive, self-propagating threats resembling highly capable computer viruses, raising urgent questions about the…
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Big Oil wants to rig the courts. You’ll pay for it on your utility bill.
Congressman Mike Levin argues that rising energy costs and climate disaster expenses stem from fossil fuel industry deception and lack of corporate accountability, proposing the Energy Bills Relief Act as a solution.