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Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own
The company believes AI-generated content is the future of social platforms. Meta is developing a standalone app for Vibes, its feed of AI-generated videos, according to reports from and . Vibes was introduced as a feature in the Meta AI app in September 2025. Similar to OpenAI's Sora app, Vibes lets users prompt Meta AI to create TikTok-style vertical videos. Following the strong early traction of Vibes within Meta AI, we are testing a standalone app to build on that momentum, Meta said in a statement.
Termites are swarming Florida even faster than predicted
Most of the state may be fighting the invasive species by 2050. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Termites have plagued southern states like Florida for decades, but a new study indicates that the problem is even worse than researchers previously believed. After reviewing over 30 years of monitoring data, entomologists at the University of Florida (UF) now say both the Formosan and Asian subterranean termites ( and) are expanding their range of destruction. They've already traveled farther north than scientists initially predicted.
The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Gay Dating App
The new book explores the uneasy relationship between Chinese internet users and a government that is always watching. Let's play a game of two truths and a lie. Of the three following statements, which one would you guess is made up? China was once home to the world's largest gay dating app with more users than Grindr, and it later went public on Nasdaq. The app's founder was a Chinese police officer who didn't come out at work until after he had been running an online forum for gay men for a decade.
TorsionNet: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Sequential Conformer Search
Molecular geometry prediction of flexible molecules, or conformer search, is a long-standing challenge in computational chemistry. This task is of great importance for predicting structure-activity relationships for a wide variety of substances ranging from biomolecules to ubiquitous materials. Substantial computational resources are invested in Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics methods to generate diverse and representative conformer sets for medium to large molecules, which are yet intractable to chemoinformatic conformer search methods. We present TorsionNet, an efficient sequential conformer search technique based on reinforcement learning under the rigid rotor approximation. The model is trained via curriculum learning, whose theoretical benefit is explored in detail, to maximize a novel metric grounded in thermodynamics called the Gibbs Score. Our experimental results show that TorsionNet outperforms the highest-scoring chemoinformatics method by 4x on large branched alkanes, and by several orders of magnitude on the previously unexplored biopolymer lignin, with applications in renewable energy. TorsionNet also outperforms the far more exhaustive but computationally intensive Self-Guided Molecular Dynamics sampling method.
Microsoft crosses privacy line few expected
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NVIDIA reportedly won't release new graphics cards this year
We have AI data centers to power! The incremental (likely Super) update to the RTX 50 line was initially scheduled for 2026. With gaming becoming an ever-smaller part of NVIDIA's lucrative business, the company reportedly won't bother releasing new graphics cards this year. This would be the first time in three decades that the company hasn't launched new gaming chips. AI demand has driven the current memory chip shortage, throwing the consumer electronics industry out of kilter.
Anthropic promises no ads in Claude, upsetting ChatGPT's CEO
Anthropic announced its Claude AI chatbot will remain completely ad-free, contrasting sharply with OpenAI's recent decision to test advertisements in ChatGPT. PCWorld reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's stance, calling Claude an "expensive product for the rich" despite Claude also offering free access. This creates a clear market divide between ad-supported and ad-free AI assistants, with Google's Gemini currently aligning with Anthropic's no-ads approach. A few weeks ago, OpenAI announced that it would begin testing display advertisements in ChatGPT responses . Shortly afterwards, Google promised no ads in Gemini (for now) .
'Orwellian': Sainsbury's staff using facial recognition tech eject innocent shopper
Sainsbury's said: 'This was not an issue with the facial recognition technology in use but a case of the wrong person being approached in store.' Sainsbury's said: 'This was not an issue with the facial recognition technology in use but a case of the wrong person being approached in store.' Man misidentified by London supermarket using Facewatch system says: 'I shouldn't have to prove I am not a criminal' A man was ordered to leave a supermarket in London after staff misidentified him using controversial new facial recognition technology. Warren Rajah was told to abandon his shopping and leave the local store he has been using for a number of years after an "Orwellian" error in a Sainsbury's in Elephant and Castle, London. He said supermarket staff were unable to explain why he was being told to leave, and would only direct him to a QR code leading to the website of the firm Facewatch, which the retailer has hired to run facial recognition in some of its stores. He said when he contacted Facewatch, he was told to send in a picture of himself and a photograph of his passport before the firm confirmed it had no record of him on its database. "One of the reasons I was angry was because I shouldn't have to prove I am innocent," Rajah said.
Fire may have altered human DNA
'Unlike any other species, most humans will burn themselves repeatedly over their lifetime.' Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Humanity's relationship with fire is unique across all of evolutionary history . Learning to harness the power of flame is arguably our most monumental technological breakthrough as a species--one that allowed to flourish across the planet. But fire is not without its inherent dangers .
DIY smart home platform Home Assistant gets a pretty makeover
PCWorld reports that Home Assistant has launched a major update to its default overview dashboard, replacing the old cluttered interface with a clean, organized design featuring three main sections. The redesigned dashboard includes Favorites for quick device access, Areas for room-specific control, and Summaries that aggregate devices by type with easy setup options.