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"Certain kinds of gut microbes absorb toxic Pfas 'forever chemicals' and help expel them from the body," reports the Guardian, citing a "new first-of-its-kind University of Cambridge research shows."The microbes were found to remove up to 75% of...

Paul SeddonPolitical reporterThe government is considering further action to keep children safe online and will not "sit back and wait" on the issue, a cabinet minister has said.Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told the BBC new age-verification rules beginning later...

That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time budget into a new algorithm with a slightly smaller space budget. Williams saw that a simulation based on squishy pebbles would make the new algorithm’s...

An anonymous reader shared this report from Cosmos magazine about a plan to "pick up those faint signals from billions of years ago."Astronomers are planning to launch a tiny spacecraft to the far side of the Moon to...

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli shared this report from Nerds.xyz:NVIDIA just put out a new security notice, and if you're running one of its powerful GPUs, you might want to pay attention. Researchers from the University of Toronto have shown...

A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues.404 Media wrote about an experiment conducted by a class at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research that...

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.”The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as opposed to an AI-generated...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Contrary to popular belief, using cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools slowed down experienced software developers when they were working in codebases familiar to them, rather than supercharging their work, a new...

There is a time-honored crisis management strategy, wherein one says nothing and waits for the outrage to pass. For Sequoia Capital, the strategy worked pretty well this week. While partner Shaun Maguire initially weathered criticism over an inflammatory social...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia, the AI assistant produced a negative response. When they presented...