The ancient trick making food waste useful and tasty
Instead of throwing away byproducts of food processing, fermentation is making them valuable.
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Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk
Anthropic is urging leading AI labs to consider slowing development, warning that frontier models are advancing fast enough that they may soon be able to improve themselves without direct human intervention. The company says a global ability to pause or slow AI development would “likely be a good thing,” citing internal data about accelerating model capabilities. From a blog post: Using public...
New IronWorm Malware Hits 36 Packages In npm Supply-Chain Attack
A new npm supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages with Rust-based infostealer malware called IronWorm. According to BleepingComputer, the malware “targets 86 environment variables (key-value pairs) and 20 credential files that may contain OpenAI, AWS, Anthropic, and npm credentials, vault configuration files, SSH keys, and Exodus cryptocurrency wallet files.” From the report: According to...
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Not to Alarm Anyone, but Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Entered the US
The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.
Companies Are Using Reddit To Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material that...
Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers
Meta has reportedly delayed the developer release of its Muse Spark AI model API multiple times, and as of Tuesday, had no scheduled launch date, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled). Reuters reports: A Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company is already testing the Application Programming Interface (API) with some early partners and is looking forward to...
Wary of Americans, Canada Bets on Its Own A.I.
The country on Thursday released a national artificial intelligence strategy that focuses on building its sovereign capability and protecting consumers.
LinkedIn China Spying Threat Prompts Warning From US, Allies
The U.S. and its Five Eyes intelligence partners issued a joint warning (PDF) that Chinese military intelligence services are using LinkedIn and other professional networking sites to recruit people with access to government, military, foreign policy, or sensitive economic information. “These actors use an aggressive online recruitment strategy whereby intelligence officers or their affiliates...
The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked
On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.
Phoebe Bridgers Ditched the Internet to Hype Up Her New Music. It’s Working
The indie artist has played a string of surprise, small-venue shows with no phones allowed, prompting fans to piece together clues about a potential upcoming album.
Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. The 8-1 decision (PDF) preserved one of the Federal Communications Commission’s key tools, though the companies also won a concession from the Republican...
‘They surprise me every time’: bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds
Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence
Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that demonstrate their remarkably advanced cognitive abilities.
The bees were given an adapted version of an experiment that, 100 years ago, first demonstrated chimpanzees could work out how to retrieve an...
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok
A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power.
BlockDAG’s stable USDT shield, Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano: Spotting the next crypto to explode for massive 150x returns
Global financial markets are currently experiencing notable fluctuations, prompting digital asset participants to seek highly secure investment vehicles. Retail traders and large institutions are actively prioritizing platforms that offer protection against sudden price corrections. The necessity for stable, predictable returns has overshadowed the desire for extreme, high-risk speculation. ...
Samsung Ditches New Jersey For Texas, Costing Garden State 1,000 Jobs
schwit1 shares a report from NJ.com: Samsung is pulling up stakes in New Jersey and heading to Texas, a move that could leave roughly 1,000 Garden State workers facing a stark choice: relocate or risk losing their jobs. The South Korean tech giant confirmed this week that it will move its US headquarters from Englewood Cliffs, NJ, to its existing campus in Plano, Texas, marking a stunning...
BetterBond Reimagines Homebuying With The Launch Of A Fully Digital, Biometrically Secure Bond Journey
One of South Africa’s leading bond originators, BetterBond, has introduced a faster, paperless and more secure digital home loan journey designed to simplify the property finance process for South African buyers. Designed to eliminate repeated data capture, reduce administrative delays and offer 24/7 digital access while keeping consultants at the centre of the experience, BetterBond Online […]
Ofek Kesef Market Intelligence Analysis: Strategic Divergence of Institutional Asset Managers Elevates AI Infrastructure as Core 2026 Macro Theme
NEW YORK, NY — June 4, 2026 — Independent financial research and market commentary platform Ofek Kesef today released its latest macroeconomic intelligence briefing, titled the 2026 Global Asset Management Industry Dynamics Observation Report. Through an in-depth structural analysis of official corporate announcements from international asset management titans during the spring of 2026, the...
Twenty Years On, Property’s Biggest Shift Isn’t Technology. It’s Trust
When Lightstone took South Africa’s first Automated Valuation Model (AVM) live with Absa in 2006, most banks assumed that automated valuations would be useful for low-value, low-risk decisions, but never as a serious substitute for a human valuer walking the property. Twenty years later, AVMs sit at the centre of mortgage origination, portfolio monitoring and capital management at...
Apple Is Bringing Age Verification To Texas This Week
joshuark shares a report from The Verge: Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas’ App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds. People in Texas who are creating a new Apple account will need to...
What Are A.I. Agents Actually Doing?
A San Francisco start-up called Arena found that people are most likely to use A.I. agents on the job, particularly if they are in the tech industry.