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300 years of mummies found in ancient Egyptian tomb

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At least 20 people and one dog reside in the Theban Necropolis chamber. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . The standard image of an ancient Egyptian mummy often features a very specific type of person and pose.


Ancient Egyptian god of magic is sometimes a bird, sometimes a baboon. Now we know why.

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Environment Animals Wildlife Ancient Egyptian god of magic is sometimes a bird, sometimes a baboon. It all has to do with moonlight's iridescent glow. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A Hamadryas baboon in Eritrea (left). An African sacred Ibis perched on a rock in South Africa (right).


Chiseled Egyptian princesses knew their way around weapons

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Before they were mummies, four royal sisters wielded the daggers, bows, and arrows 4,000 years ago. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A daughter of Pharaoh Amenemhat II, Princess Ita likely wielded an ornate dagger among other weapons. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


The Problem With VAR at the 2026 World Cup Isn't the Technology--It's Who Interprets It

WIRED

The video assistant referee system, or VAR, has led to some controversial calls at the 2026 World Cup. The penultimate Round of 16 match at the 2026 World Cup between Argentina and Egypt was marked not just by exceptional goals, great saves, and fans devoted to their teams. The match also sparked one of the most widely discussed controversies surrounding the video assistant referee system, known as VAR, a technology designed to assist on-field officials in making fairer decisions, but whose use has been criticized for allegedly favoring certain teams. Egypt was eliminated from the tournament with a 3-2 loss to Argentina, after having held a two-goal lead. The Egyptian Football Association argued that "the failure to properly use VAR" had influenced several refereeing decisions that affected the final score.


Toll bridge fine issued to driver 270 miles away

BBC News

A driver said he was left perturbed after receiving a fine for crossing a toll bridge more than 270 miles from his home despite insisting he had never been near it. Graham Parsons, from Plymouth, Devon, received an unpaid toll charge for using the Warburton Toll Bridge, which links Cheshire and Greater Manchester. His case is one of a number raised by motorists who have complained about the bridge's payment and enforcement system. Peel Ports said there had been some genuine customer experience issues, but the evidence did not indicate a systemic failure of the system. The bridge previously cost 12p a crossing, but the charge was increased to ยฃ1 following refurbishment works in recent years .


The World Cup Pride Match Is A Winner

TIME - Tech

Seattleโ€™s World Cup Pride Match went on despite objections from Iran and Egyptโ€™s soccer federations, becoming a celebration of free expression, inclusion, and the global game.


Virus Infection Attack on LLMs: Your Poisoning Can Spread "VIA " Synthetic Data

Neural Information Processing Systems

Synthetic data refers to artificial samples generated by models. While it has been validated to significantly enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) during training and has been widely adopted in LLM development, potential security risks it may introduce remain uninvestigated. This paper systematically evaluates the resilience of synthetic-data-integrated training paradigm for LLMs against mainstream poisoning and backdoor attacks. We reveal that such a paradigm exhibits strong resistance to existing attacks, primarily thanks to the different distribution patterns between poisoning data and queries used to generate synthetic samples. To enhance the effectiveness of these attacks and further investigate the security risks introduced by synthetic data, we introduce a novel and universal attack framework, namely, Virus Infection Attack (VIA), which enables the propagation of current attacks through synthetic data even under purely clean queries. Inspired by the principles of virus design in cybersecurity, VIA conceals the poisoning payload within a protective "shell" and strategically searches for optimal hijacking points in benign samples to maximize the likelihood of generating malicious content. Extensive experiments on both data poisoning and backdoor attacks show that VIA significantly increases the presence of poisoning content in synthetic data and correspondingly raises the attack success rate (ASR) on downstream models to levels comparable to those observed in the poisoned upstream models.


True purpose of Egypt's Great Pyramid challenged by new theory ancient wonder is a 'planetary beacon'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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World's largest solar-powered aircraft crashes after losing power

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'Solar Impulse 2' made history by circumnavigating the globe in 2016. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. 'Solar Impulse 2' completed its circumnavigation of the planet, which included a flight over Giza's pyramids, in 2016. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The groundbreaking experimental aircraft known as has met an untimely end.


A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

New Scientist

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia flourished in the centuries to come, partly because writing helped states control the flow of goods and consolidate power. The pen (or ancient stylus) was mightier than the sword. Or so the conventional story goes. But there is a glaring omission here because, at the dawn of writing, there weren't two scripts. That third, mysterious script, called proto-Elamite, appeared in ancient Iran while cuneiform and hieroglyphs were both in their infancy - and has been shockingly overlooked by all but a handful of scholars since its discovery 125 years ago.