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Meet Earl Grey, the sea turtle with a wild family tree

Popular Science

The rare hybrid turtle's mother belongs to a particularly endangered species. 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. Earl Grey was found cold-stunned in Brewster, Massachusetts and is recovering in Jekyll Island, Georgia. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A rare type of sea turtle is on the road to recover at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center in Jekyll Island, Georgia.

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Trump DOJ jumps into Musk xAI court battle as diversity fight heats up

FOX News

The DOJ joined Elon Musk's xAI in suing Colorado, alleging a state AI regulation law violates the First and Fourteenth amendments by forcing developers to adopt DEI ideology.


The Download: supercharged scams and studying AI healthcare

MIT Technology Review

Plus: DeepSeek has unveiled its long-awaited new AI model. When ChatGPT was released in late 2022, it showed how easily generative AI could create human-like text. This quickly caught the eye of cybercriminals, who began using LLMs to compose malicious emails. Since then, they've adopted AI for everything from turbocharged phishing and hyperrealistic deepfakes to automated vulnerability scans. Many organizations are now struggling to cope with the sheer volume of cyberattacks. AI is making them faster, cheaper, and easier to carry out, a problem set to worsen as more cybercriminals adopt these tools--and their capabilities improve.


Revealing Geography-Driven Signals in Zone-Level Claim Frequency Models: An Empirical Study using Environmental and Visual Predictors

Alfonso-Sánchez, Sherly, Bravo, Cristián, Stankova, Kristina G.

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Geographic context is often consider relevant to motor insurance risk, yet public actuarial datasets provide limited location identifiers, constraining how this information can be incorporated and evaluated in claim-frequency models. This study examines how geographic information from alternative data sources can be incorporated into actuarial models for Motor Third Party Liability (MTPL) claim prediction under such constraints. Using the BeMTPL97 dataset, we adopt a zone-level modeling framework and evaluate predictive performance on unseen postcodes. Geographic information is introduced through two channels: environmental indicators from OpenStreetMap and CORINE Land Cover, and orthoimagery released by the Belgian National Geographic Institute for academic use. We evaluate the predictive contribution of coordinates, environmental features, and image embeddings across three baseline models: generalized linear models (GLMs), regularized GLMs, and gradient-boosted trees, while raw imagery is modeled using convolutional neural networks. Our results show that augmenting actuarial variables with constructed geographic information improves accuracy. Across experiments, both linear and tree-based models benefit most from combining coordinates with environmental features extracted at 5 km scale, while smaller neighborhoods also improve baseline specifications. Generally, image embeddings do not improve performance when environmental features are available; however, when such features are absent, pretrained vision-transformer embeddings enhance accuracy and stability for regularized GLMs. Our results show that the predictive value of geographic information in zone-level MTPL frequency models depends less on model complexity than on how geography is represented, and illustrate that geographic context can be incorporated despite limited individual-level spatial information.


WWE star Seth Rollins storms off NFL Network set after Kyle Brandt razzing

FOX News

ESPN's Mad Dog Russo melts down over'U-S-A' chants at the RBC Heritage A piece of the UFC White House event's setup is sitting in Pennsylvania Amish country Viral Ottawa Senators fan blamed for team's 0-2 playoff start banished to Taiwan'First Take' host acts disgusted when she has to cover Vrabel-Russini drama Edward Cabrera's strikeout prop is the play as struggling Phillies face surging Cubs today Nuggets vs Timberwolves Game 3 pick hinges on Jaden McDaniels calling out Denver's entire defense Charles Barkley was disgusted by Magic's highly questionable pregame handshake ChatGPT predicted the first round of the NFL Draft and here's what it said Curt Cignetti was so focused this offseason, he turned down all external requests: 'I'm 95% football' California governor's race intensifies as six candidates face off Trump: US Navy to'shoot and kill' any boat placing mines in Hormuz Virginia court blocks Democrats' redistricting effort, Florida next Trump weighs in on Iran's internal power struggle and Strait of Hormuz control Hasan Piker justifies'social murder' of CEO Fox News celebrates'Bring Your Kids to Work Day' WWE's Kit Wilson backs Cody Rhodes after scathing Pat McAfee promo WWE star Kit Wilson tells Fox News Digital why he's forgiven Cody Rhodes for taking his anger out on him. WWE star Seth Rollins has had a tough week. He lost his WrestleMania 42 match against Gunther after a brutal ambush from Bron Breakker, and on Monday Night Raw, Breakker ambushed him again. It has been rough for The Visionary and on Thursday he didn't appear to be in the mood for any teasing. NFL Network host Kyle Brandt appears during the Cincinnati Bengals game against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2022.


Pugs and Frenchies could find breathing relief for squishy faces with new treatment

Popular Science

Snoretox-1 uses inactive tetanus to help keep airways open. 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. Humans bred dogs that can't breathe. Science may finally give them some relief. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week.


The Download: introducing the Nature issue

MIT Technology Review

Plus: Trump signaled he's open to reversing the Anthropic ban. When we talk about "nature," we usually mean something untouched by humans. But little of that world exists today. From microplastics in rainforest wildlife to artificial light in the Arctic Ocean, human influence now reaches every corner of Earth. In this context, what even is nature? And should we employ technology to try to make the world more "natural"?


What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

The New Yorker

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools? The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite. I don't like A.I., and I am raising my children not to like it. I've been telling them for years now that chatbots are manipulative and dangerous, that A.I.-image generators are loosening our collective grip on reality, that large language models are built atop industrial-scale intellectual-property theft. At times, I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block: avoid eye contact, cross the street when you walk past his house, and, when in doubt, call on a trusted adult. Yes, I, too, have suspected that the creepy neighbor walks on cloven hooves inside his Yeezy Boosts, but he probably isn't going anywhere--in fact, he keeps buying up properties around town--so just try your best not to engage. Somehow, I was not prepared for the creepy neighbor to start hanging around my kids' schools; somehow, I thought we had until high school.


Will fusion power get cheap? Don't count on it.

MIT Technology Review

Will fusion power get cheap? New research suggests that cost declines could be slow for the technology. Fusion power could provide a steady, zero-emissions source of electricity in the future--if companies can get plants built and running. But a new study suggests that even if that future arrives, it might not come cheap. Technologies tend to get less expensive over time. Lithium-ion batteries are now about 90% cheaper than they were in 2013.


1 in 50 million split-colored lobster found in Massachusetts

Popular Science

The three-pound crustacean will live at an aquarium, offering a fun genetics lesson. 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. The exciting discovery offers a lesson in genetics. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A two-toned lobster is set to make a splash at the Woods Hole Science Aquarium in southeastern Massachusetts.