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Plans for the world's first octopus 'megafarm' are CANCELLED amid concerns the 'sentient' animals can feel pain and emotions

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Arielle Charnas left carnage in her wake when her fashion brand imploded. Now comes the influencer's shameless second act... Killer Massachusetts mom's coded courtroom signals: Lindsay Clancy's surprising demeanor as potential jurors are reduced to tears in trial over murder of three children My fiancé made a taboo demand ahead of our wedding night... it's obscene, I can't bring myself to do it: DEAR JANE Watch married SWAT officer's brazen remarks after he's caught on video having sex with blonde cop at school: Toe-curling new footage revealed Which food additive is most likely to fuel bowel cancer? Like many wives, there's only one way for me to orgasm - and my husband finds it humiliating. Kylian Mbappe admits he will be in'pain for a while' as he releases emotional 520-word statement after France's World Cup heartbreak Plans for the world's first octopus'megafarm' are CANCELLED amid concerns the'sentient' animals can feel pain and emotions Married elite NYC lawyer, 45, is caught red-handed with underling, 29, in passionate Central Park rendezvous... then tracked down at $2.3m home he shares with wife nearby Timothee Chalamet left'uncomfortable' by lookalike links to sexually explicit OnlyFans content... and the rumors he's fueling Strip club heiress finally confesses forbidden secrets her father kept hidden... and reveals the day she uncovered the astonishing truth behind the G-strings Meghan says she tells Archie and Lilibet to'pick' fruit from their garden if they want dessert - but later insists'we always have a nice, as my husband would say, pud' Plans for the world's first octopus'megafarm' are CANCELLED amid concerns the'sentient' animals can feel pain and emotions READ MORE: Scientists say scampi carries'hidden climate cost' Plans for the world's first octopus'megafarm' have been cancelled amid a flurry of ethical and environmental concerns. Nueva Pescanova, a Spanish seafood group, was aiming to build the aquaculture project in the maritime hub of Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands.


How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

MIT Technology Review

As generative AI captures public attention, a different kind of AI is reshaping drug discovery. Machine learning models are helping to compress decade-long timelines and cracking problems that were previously unsolvable. Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to treat conditions across most major acute and chronic diseases), the complexity is even greater.


The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

WIRED

A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use--and conceal--to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it's releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys designed to uncover whether police used surveillance technologies --facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, gunshot detection systems, and more--to build the cases against their clients in secret. The toolkit, which the group describes as the first of its kind, is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judge, will force prosecutors to reveal whether surveillance technology was used against a defendant. It covers an array of technologies, from "stingray" phone trackers and location data sold by commercial brokers to AI-drafted police reports and forensic tools that crack phones and siphon data from car infotainment systems. It also includes preservation motions--demands that surveillance data be saved before it is deleted automatically--aimed at government agencies and private vendors alike.


The A.I. Gender Gap Meets the Parenting Gender Gap

The New Yorker

Women use A.I. less than men and do more of the cognitive work at home. The A.I. "family assistant" promises to bridge both divides. In a promotional video for Ollie, an A.I. family assistant, one of the company's founders, Bill Lennon, is about to announce his new venture in front of a camera crew when his phone starts pinging. "THE BABY JUST ON THE CARPET / like A LOT / WHILE I WAS ON ZOOM W AN INVESTOR." Then, a somewhat anticlimactic follow-up: "My sister coming for dinner btw did I tell you???" Lennon does not respond directly to these messages, which are presumably from his wife.


'AI accountability agenda': US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech's harms

The Guardian

Senator Ed Markey says: 'We need to make sure these datacenters don't turn into pollution bombs.' Senator Ed Markey says: 'We need to make sure these datacenters don't turn into pollution bombs.' 'AI accountability agenda': US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech's harms US senator Ed Markey is worried about the perils of unregulated artificial intelligence. All of it: the costs associated with thirsty, energy-guzzling datacenters, intrusive workplace surveillance, bias in discriminatory algorithms, AI overriding workers' judgments, and deepening economic inequality - as those who profit most from AI rake in extraordinary windfalls. The Massachusetts Democrat's interest in convincing Congress to rein in the harmful effects of AI has only grown, as the technology embeds itself deeper across industries. Markey has already authored close to a dozen bills aimed at tackling these problems.


Breaking Down the Emotional Ending of Five Star Weekend

TIME - Tech

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Invasive (but delicious) clams discovered in Cape Cod

Popular Science

The Manila clam has officially conquered the Northern Hemisphere. 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. Manila clams are both an invasive species and a popular seafood source. 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 .


Air pollution may be changing sperm

Popular Science

Harmful nitrogen dioxide and ozone levels could affect fertility and pregnancies. 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 . Air quality is linked to a wide range of health issues including respiratory problems, cardiovascular complications, and cancer, and that list of concerns only continues to grow .


A Single Stepsize Suffices for Unprojected Linear TD(0): Simultaneous Robust and Fast Rates via Polyak--Ruppert Averaging

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We study linear TD(0) under Markovian sampling, where data are generated along a single trajectory. We provide high-probability guarantees for a plain unprojected TD(0) algorithm with Polyak-Ruppert (PR) averaging, using a single stepsize schedule $η_t \propto \frac{1}{τ_{\mathrm{mix}}\log(t)\sqrt{t}}$ that depends on the mixing time but requires no prior knowledge of the curvature parameter $ω$. Our first result shows that such a choice of the stepsize guarantees that the TD(0) iterates are automatically and uniformly bounded with high probability, without projections and without any stability argument based on $ω$. Building on this result, we establish a simultaneous high-probability convergence guarantee for the PR average: the same stepsize yields both a robust curvature-free $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}\!\left(\frac{τ_{\mathrm{mix}}}{\sqrt{T}}\right)$ rate and a fast curvature-dependent $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}\!\left(\frac{τ_{\mathrm{mix}}^2}{ωT}\right)$rate, with the bound taking the minimum of the two. The core technical ingredient is a Poisson-equation toolkit for geometrically mixing Markov chains, which decomposes Markov noise into a martingale term plus a controlled remainder and enables a new self-bounding inductive argument for pathwise stability.


Pigeons are surprisingly good at detecting cancer

Popular Science

Scientists are using the birds' skills to train AI medical tools. 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. They can even see ultraviolet light, which humans aren't able to. 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 .