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Getting children to eat their vegetables starts in the womb, researchers suggest

Yesterday at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Rather than bribery, or hiding carrots under ketchup, the key may be to expose foetuses to healthy flavours

It is an age-old battle with small children that most parents will recognise: please, please, eat your vegetables.

Some will read them books with titles such as The Boy Who Loved Broccoli. Others have been known to smother veg in tomato ketchup, or mix avocado and fruit with Greek yoghurt...

Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI

Yesterday at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk’s trial against the company, testifying that Musk repeatedly sought control of OpenAI before leaving in 2018. Altman said he opposed putting AI “under the control of any one person,” while Musk’s lawyer used a pointed cross-examination to attack Altman’s trustworthiness. An anonymous reader shares updates from the testimony via the New...

Look up: Milky Way photographer of the year 2026 – in pictures

Yesterday at 01:25 AM, via The Guardian

Photographers search for dark skies in the most remote landscapes to find places where the galaxy shines with extraordinary clarity. They share not only their breathtaking results but also their methods, trials and adventures

• Stargazing in New Zealand’s first dark sky community

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Don’t reach for the bug spray: scientists find insects may feel pain after crickets nurse sore antenna

Yesterday at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say

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Do insects feel pain? Crickets certainly seem to, according to new research which finds they stroke and groom a sore antenna in much...

South Korea Floats ‘Citizen Dividend’ Using AI Profits

Yesterday at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

South Korea’s presidential policy chief is calling for a “citizen dividend” that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom “should be structurally returned to all citizens.” That...

Daily pill can help people maintain weight loss after they come off jabs, trial shows

Yesterday at 00:01 AM, via The Guardian

Data shows orforglipron could in future avoid need to take other long-term medications for diseases associated with obesity

A daily pill could help people keep weight off and stop them needing other long-term medications, scientists behind landmark new trial data have suggested.

The researchers said orforglipron could help prevent more than 200 diseases associated with obesity and could be...

Instructure Pays Canvas Hackers To Delete Students’ Stolen Data

Yesterday at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, says it reached an agreement with the hackers who stole 3.5 terabytes of student and university data. The company says it received “digital confirmation” that the information was destroyed and that affected schools and students would not be extorted. The BBC reports: Paying cyber criminals goes against the advice of law...

Amazon Employees Are ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Due To Pressure To Use AI Tools

Tuesday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times (via Ars Technica): Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to...

MAHA Is Still Creepily Obsessed With Your Fertility

Tuesday at 22:38 PM, via Wired

RFK Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s pronatalist agenda.

Google Announces Its Chromebook Successor: the Googlebook

Tuesday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Google is teasing a new line of “Googlebook” laptops for this fall, powered by a new Android-and-ChromeOS-derived operating system that will run Chrome, Android apps, phone-connected apps and files, and deeply integrated Gemini features. The company says Chromebooks will continue “after the launch of Googlebook” and “…all Chromebooks will continue to receive support through their device’s...

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