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11 wild photos show the Amazon River in its glory

Popular Science

New photography book takes readers on a journey down the world's longest river. Magnificent frigate birds (Fregata magnificens) make long foraging trips far over the Atlantic Ocean. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The vital Amazon River is a lifeline for flora and fauna alike. The mighty river is celebrated in a new book, .



Experts reveal five-day window when 'life-threatening' storm is set to smash US as it brews in Atlantic Ocean

Daily Mail - Science & tech

'Arc de Trump' designed by president unveiled as he reveals controversial past plan for monument site'Vile' American flag spotted in Republican's office sparks Capitol investigation Experts reveal five-day window when'life-threatening' storm is set to smash US as it brews in Atlantic Ocean RICHARD EDEN: The VERY telling video that suggests one of Meghan's closest confidants has been'Markled'. He once leapt to her defence... now like so many others he needs to watch his step She's the dancer caught'going at it' in bed with Britney Spears. Nepo babies dare to bare! Celebrity offspring leave nothing to imagination as they dominate Victoria's Secret show... what would their parents say? Nightmarish moment train door closes on 65-year-old man's coat and drags him to his death MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Trump's depraved critics have committed their foulest act yet... Bella Hadid's health battle takes dark turn: Loved ones reveal hellish new details about model... as ominous texts emerge Why'embarrassed' Keith Urban is'in hiding' amid divorce from wife Nicole Kidman Disney superfan, 31, vanishes from her Midwest home months after announcing pregnancy... then horrific discovery is made at Walt Disney World Selena Gomez admits she was'sobbing' and fearing the worst just WEEKS after marrying music producer Benny Blanco in lavish ceremony Race against time to build a 211-mile gravel track across America's most extreme frontier for new'Manhattan Project'... but it could be too late Victoria's Secret show 2025: Bella Hadid rules the runway after her health woes, Jasmine Tookes opens the show at nine months pregnant and Emily Ratajkowski makes her debut aged 34 as legendary Angels and nepo babies unite after failed woke rebrand Red-eyed female executive, 61, with $1.1m home attacked two Alaska Airlines staff and forced plane to make emergency landing, police say Most shocking moments from female-fronted talk show dubbed'The View for conservatives' Nancy Pelosi explodes at reporter as she's escorted down Capitol Building steps Experts reveal five-day window when'life-threatening' storm is set to smash US as it brews in Atlantic Ocean A powerful tropical system brewing in the Atlantic Ocean could become the next major threat to lives and property in the US, meteorologists have warned. Forecasters are tracking a tropical wave, a poorly organized area of showers and thunderstorms, currently located off the coast of Africa, which is expected to develop into a named storm between October 21 and 25.


Titanic's Scottish scapegoat is CLEARED after 113 years: 3D scans confirm First Officer William Murdoch did NOT abandon his post as the ship sank

Daily Mail - Science & tech

It has been 113 years since the Titanic sank beneath the waves, claiming the lives of more than 1,500 passengers and crew. But new evidence has finally cleared the tragedy's Scottish scapegoat: First Officer William Murdoch. For years, Officer Murdoch has been accused of taking bribes, abandoning his post, and was even depicted shooting a passenger in the James Cameron movie. Now, more than a century later, 3D scans show that Officer Murdoch did not flee his position, but died while helping passengers escape until the very end. Deep sea scanning company Magellan has snapped 715,000 photos of the Titanic wreck 12,500 feet beneath the Atlantic.


Enhancing Multiple Dimensions of Trustworthiness in LLMs via Sparse Activation Control

Xiao, Yuxin, Wan, Chaoqun, Zhang, Yonggang, Wang, Wenxiao, Lin, Binbin, He, Xiaofei, Shen, Xu, Ye, Jieping

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

As the development and application of Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance rapidly, enhancing their trustworthiness and aligning them with human preferences has become a critical area of research. Traditional methods rely heavily on extensive data for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), but representation engineering offers a new, training-free approach. This technique leverages semantic features to control the representation of LLM's intermediate hidden states, enabling the model to meet specific requirements such as increased honesty or heightened safety awareness. However, a significant challenge arises when attempting to fulfill multiple requirements simultaneously. It proves difficult to encode various semantic contents, like honesty and safety, into a singular semantic feature, restricting its practicality. In this work, we address this issue through ``Sparse Activation Control''. By delving into the intrinsic mechanisms of LLMs, we manage to identify and pinpoint components that are closely related to specific tasks within the model, i.e., attention heads. These heads display sparse characteristics that allow for near-independent control over different tasks. Our experiments, conducted on the open-source Llama series models, have yielded encouraging results. The models were able to align with human preferences on issues of safety, factuality, and bias concurrently.


The real Atlantis? Scientists discover lost islands that sank off the coast of the Canary Islands millions of years ago - and claim they could have been the inspiration for the famous legend

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Atlantis is the world's most famous fictional island, invented by Greek philosopher Plato 2,300 years ago. But Spanish researchers claim to have found the source of his inspiration – a series of sunken islands off the northwest coast of Africa. The former islands would have been close to the modern-day Canary Islands, but they sunk millions of years ago, the experts think. They've christened the now-submerged lands'Los Atlantes', in reference to the myth of Atlantis which still persists today. Luis Somoza, a marine geologist at Geological Survey of Spain (IGME-CSIC), told Live Science: 'This could be the origin of the Atlantis legend.'


Fine-grained Controllable Text Generation through In-context Learning with Feedback

Thillainathan, Sarubi, Koller, Alexander

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We present a method for rewriting an input sentence to match specific values of nontrivial linguistic features, such as dependency depth. In contrast to earlier work, our method uses in-context learning rather than finetuning, making it applicable in use cases where data is sparse. We show that our model performs accurate rewrites and matches the state of the art on rewriting sentences to a specified school grade level.


Vision-Language Models Meet Meteorology: Developing Models for Extreme Weather Events Detection with Heatmaps

Chen, Jian, Zhou, Peilin, Hua, Yining, Chong, Dading, Cao, Meng, Li, Yaowei, Yuan, Zixuan, Zhu, Bing, Liang, Junwei

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Real-time detection and prediction of extreme weather protect human lives and infrastructure. Traditional methods rely on numerical threshold setting and manual interpretation of weather heatmaps with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which can be slow and error-prone. Our research redefines Extreme Weather Events Detection (EWED) by framing it as a Visual Question Answering (VQA) problem, thereby introducing a more precise and automated solution. Leveraging Vision-Language Models (VLM) to simultaneously process visual and textual data, we offer an effective aid to enhance the analysis process of weather heatmaps. Our initial assessment of general-purpose VLMs (e.g., GPT-4-Vision) on EWED revealed poor performance, characterized by low accuracy and frequent hallucinations due to inadequate color differentiation and insufficient meteorological knowledge. To address these challenges, we introduce ClimateIQA, the first meteorological VQA dataset, which includes 8,760 wind gust heatmaps and 254,040 question-answer pairs covering four question types, both generated from the latest climate reanalysis data. We also propose Sparse Position and Outline Tracking (SPOT), an innovative technique that leverages OpenCV and K-Means clustering to capture and depict color contours in heatmaps, providing ClimateIQA with more accurate color spatial location information. Finally, we present Climate-Zoo, the first meteorological VLM collection, which adapts VLMs to meteorological applications using the ClimateIQA dataset. Experiment results demonstrate that models from Climate-Zoo substantially outperform state-of-the-art general VLMs, achieving an accuracy increase from 0% to over 90% in EWED verification. The datasets and models in this study are publicly available for future climate science research: https://github.com/AlexJJJChen/Climate-Zoo.


Boca Bash partier's parents issue apology after son caught dumping bins of trash into ocean

FOX News

A YouTube based in Florida's iconic Haulover Inlet, set between Bal Harbour and Sunny Isles in Miami-Dade County, posted this video during a boozing weekend. The family of one of two teen boys facing felonies for dumping drums of trash into the Atlantic Ocean at Florida's annual Boca Bash issued an apology after their son turned himself in to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Now-viral drone footage shows the teens hefting two trash bins filled with bottles and other plastics over the railing of their fishing vessel as they speed away from the boozy water gathering on April 28. As the boat of partiers zoomed away into the choppy waters of the Boca Raton inlet, the video pans out to the spread of debris left floating in their wake. Footage from the front of the boat shows the teens waving and laughing.


Titanic remains reveal lost gold necklace made from the tooth of a megalodon

Daily Mail - Science & tech

A necklace'made from the tooth of a megalodon shark' is revealed in new images from the wreckage of RMS Titanic. The stunning artefact – which has not been worn since the ship's sinking in April 1912 – was identified in footage taken last summer by Guernsey-based firm Magellan Ltd. The footage was shot during efforts to capture the first digital scans of the shipwreck, which present the wreck almost as if it's been retrieved from the water. Other objects surrounding the necklace have not been identified, although it appears to be surrounded by small ring-shaped beads. Magellan Ltd, which is working with Atlantic Productions on a documentary about last year's expedition, is prohibited from taking them from the sea floor, however.