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Modern life may be pushing human minds beyond their limits, study warns

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Trump turns Correspondents' Dinner into merciless drubbing of his foes as he trolls press with pitch for'FOURTH TERM' Donald Trump's son Barron faces calls for probe over alleged links to arrested'manosphere' influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate Inside new life of Lindsay Clancy's husband and fertility doctor wife: Family reveals touching texts, intimate wedding details and happy photos... as ex stands trial for murder of their three children Republican candidate's'Christian family values' image cracks as campaign is caught following explicit profiles, including underage girls Why Ella Langley's meteoric rise has Taylor Swift worried: Insiders reveal new queen of country's cunning plan to dethrone pop's biggest star Former ESPN star Ryan Clark breaks down in tears as he opens up on shock firing... and takes aim at network execs during emotional interview Family of eight including six kids dead in Michigan beach house fire - as cops investigate'suspicious' blaze Truth about the'closeted conservative gay mafia running Washington': KENNEDY lists the real power players... and exposes a truly insidious plot Woman accused of stealing another passenger's first class seat on American Airlines flight from NYC to LA because hers wouldn't recline Florida woman's emotional reunion with her cat seven months after he was rescued from squalid hoarder house My husband's mortifying bedroom demand has left me in a state. I thought our sex life was good... now I fear what he's getting up to behind my back The $3 supplement that can turbo-charge your weight loss... and even outperform Mounjaro: Experts reveal eye-opening study that shows how drug-free pill can boost slimming by 600 per cent California chain recently named the BEST fast food restaurant in the country and it's not In-N-Out READ MORE: The world's most narcissistic countries revealed If it ever feels like the stresses of daily life are all getting too much to bear, you're not imagining it. Researchers claim that modern life is pushing human minds and bodies beyond their evolutionary limits. Humanity has seen staggering improvements in technology, medicine, and quality of life over the past few hundred years. However, this rapid progress has left our individual brains unable to keep up.


Scientists develop a 'ghost font' that only humans can read - and it leaves even the most advanced AI bots baffled

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Trump turns Correspondents' Dinner into merciless drubbing of his foes as he trolls press with pitch for'FOURTH TERM' Donald Trump's son Barron faces calls for probe over alleged links to arrested'manosphere' influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate Inside new life of Lindsay Clancy's husband and fertility doctor wife: Family reveals touching texts, intimate wedding details and happy photos... as ex stands trial for murder of their three children Republican candidate's'Christian family values' image cracks as campaign is caught following explicit profiles, including underage girls Why Ella Langley's meteoric rise has Taylor Swift worried: Insiders reveal new queen of country's cunning plan to dethrone pop's biggest star Former ESPN star Ryan Clark breaks down in tears as he opens up on shock firing... and takes aim at network execs during emotional interview Family of eight including six kids dead in Michigan beach house fire - as cops investigate'suspicious' blaze Truth about the'closeted conservative gay mafia running Washington': KENNEDY lists the real power players... and exposes a truly insidious plot Woman accused of stealing another passenger's first class seat on American Airlines flight from NYC to LA because hers wouldn't recline Florida woman's emotional reunion with her cat seven months after he was rescued from squalid hoarder house My husband's mortifying bedroom demand has left me in a state. I thought our sex life was good... now I fear what he's getting up to behind my back The $3 supplement that can turbo-charge your weight loss... and even outperform Mounjaro: Experts reveal eye-opening study that shows how drug-free pill can boost slimming by 600 per cent California chain recently named the BEST fast food restaurant in the country and it's not In-N-Out Scientists develop a'ghost font' that only humans can read - and it leaves even the most advanced AI bots baffled With AI now ingrained in everything from fitness trackers to dating apps, knowing who - or what - can access your private messages is becoming increasingly difficult. But help is at hand, as scientists have developed a new anti-AI font. Dubbed the'Ghost Font', the font writes messages using motion. 'Using a combination of motion, video, noise, and decoys, it's a unique way to share a message with other real humans,' explained its developer, Eric Lu. 'I suppose technically, it's not a font in the traditional sense of a TTF font file.


Drone Ports and Funding Mayhem: Trump's Ballroom Has Turned Toxic

WIRED

Drone Ports and Funding Mayhem: Trump's Ballroom Has Turned Toxic "Republicans are just going to have to suck it up and get it done," says one Trump aide about the funding melee. The votes, though, may simply not be there. President Donald Trump is squeezing Republicans to do his bidding on the ballroom. White House officials are pushing Republicans in Congress to approve $1 billion in security enhancements for Trump's ballroom on grounds that it would be bad optics for private donors to pay for the presidential bunker underneath, according to two people familiar with the matter. The White House has said the ballroom itself has been paid for by donors like tech giants Apple, Meta, and Amazon, but there has been concern about these companies or rich donors effectively sponsoring a bunker.


Trump's Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal He's Already Rejected

WIRED

As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now they just have to sell the president on it. President Donald Trump's negotiators face the arduous task of trying to convince the president that a deal he previously rejected is their best option in Iran . Last month, Trump initially gave his blessing for a so-called "cash for uranium" deal, under which the US would release around $20 billion in frozen funds in exchange for Iran handing over its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. Trump's negotiators, vice president JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, received repeated approvals from the president while they were in Islamabad, giving them confidence a deal was close.


Outrage as Disneyland launches 'dystopian' technology at park entrances

Daily Mail - Science & tech

King Charles tells Congress UK and US'have always found ways to come together' during historic address James Comey indicted AGAIN by Trump's Justice Department over seashell social media'assassination' accusation Justin Baldoni says he's not to blame for Blake Lively's downfall as lawyers brand her a'bully' with a history of flop business ventures at pre-trial hearing How to turbocharge your Ozempic and Mounjaro: Exact time, day of week and WHERE to inject on body... 'rotation' trick and other doctor-approved steps to lose MORE weight and avoid side effects I'm a urologist: Men worried about having a small penis need to know they CAN grow it I tried this 45-minute new size-boosting treatment myself Small print on page 26 of Newsom's billionaire's bill that reveals his real plans and how everyone could be hit Every woman who uses retinol must read this. You won't believe these beauty influencer claims they're just so damaging: DR SHEILA NAZARIAN Matt Damon's wife, 49, is accused of ...


Israeli drone strike kills two in Gaza as ceasefire violations mount

Al Jazeera

Are we closer to a Gaza international peace force? How Israel is using'no war, no peace' model in Gaza How is Israel using PR firms to frame its war? At least two people including a child have been killed in an Israeli drone strike east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera reporters in the besieged Palestinian territory. Hamas condemned Israel's "daily and continuous violations" since a truce came into effect last month, accusing it of maintaining a campaign of bombardments and demolitions across the besieged enclave. The Israeli military said the Palestinians killed on Monday posed "an immediate threat" to its forces. Israeli forces have also been systematically destroying homes inside the so-called "yellow line", a temporary withdrawal boundary agreed in the ceasefire.


Trump's week in Asia: BBC correspondents on the wins and potential losses

BBC News

US President Donald Trump is arriving in Asia for a whirlwind week of diplomacy, which includes a much-anticipated meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Top of the agenda between the two will be trade - an area where tensions between the world's two biggest economies have once again been ramping up. Trump lands in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, as a summit for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, begins on Sunday. He will then visit Japan and finally South Korea, where the White House says he will meet Xi. So what are the wins Trump and other leaders are hoping for, and what are the pitfalls?


Not Drowning but Waving, at a Drone

The New Yorker

Although it is easy to be enthusiastic about the sea's ability to regulate climate and to produce both oxygen and delicious marine life that goes well with melted butter, it is also easy to recognize that the sea is an uncompromising bringer of death, a hotheaded bully who is perpetually ready to rumble. The other day in the Rockaways, on the shore at Beach Eighty-seventh Street, the ocean was exhibiting its pugilistic side: four-foot waves, strong undertow--perfect conditions for test-driving one of the city's new beach-patrol initiatives. For the past three years, New York City beaches have relied on drones to detect sharks and riptides, and now the gizmos are being used to drop flotation devices on swimmers in trouble. This summer, a stretch of the Rockaways will be patrolled by two all-terrain vehicles, each bearing a drone pilot as well as a rescue swimmer, who can assist lifeguards as needed. A correspondent who had volunteered to pose as a swimmer in distress cast a wary eye at the surf.


Unidentified drones spotted over US bases in the UK, do not appear belong to 'hobbyists'

FOX News

Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the latest on efforts to find out about the unusual drone activity on'Special Report.' Unidentified drones have been spotted over joint U.S.-U.K. bases in the United Kingdom for nearly a week. Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reports that four U.S. military bases in the U.K. that house the American F-15 Strike Eagle and F-35 fighter jets have been targeted by "swarms of small drones" since Wednesday, Nov. 20. Military officials say they are "alarmed" at what appears to be a coordinated effort to test security at RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall and RAF Feltwell in eastern England, as well as RAF Fairford in southwestern England. The U.K. military has sent around 60 personnel to protect the bases being targeted by multiple drone incursions.


FABLES: Evaluating faithfulness and content selection in book-length summarization

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

While long-context large language models (LLMs) can technically summarize book-length documents (>100K tokens), the length and complexity of the documents have so far prohibited evaluations of input-dependent aspects like faithfulness. In this paper, we conduct the first large-scale human evaluation of faithfulness and content selection on LLM-generated summaries of fictional books. Our study mitigates the issue of data contamination by focusing on summaries of books published in 2023 or 2024, and we hire annotators who have fully read each book prior to the annotation task to minimize cost and cognitive burden. We collect FABLES, a dataset of annotations on 3,158 claims made in LLM-generated summaries of 26 books, at a cost of $5.2K USD, which allows us to rank LLM summarizers based on faithfulness: Claude-3-Opus significantly outperforms all closed-source LLMs, while the open-source Mixtral is on par with GPT-3.5-Turbo. An analysis of the annotations reveals that most unfaithful claims relate to events and character states, and they generally require indirect reasoning over the narrative to invalidate. While LLM-based auto-raters have proven reliable for factuality and coherence in other settings, we implement several LLM raters of faithfulness and find that none correlates strongly with human annotations, especially with regard to detecting unfaithful claims. Our experiments suggest that detecting unfaithful claims is an important future direction not only for summarization evaluation but also as a testbed for long-context understanding. Finally, we move beyond faithfulness by exploring content selection errors in book-length summarization: we develop a typology of omission errors related to crucial narrative elements and also identify a systematic over-emphasis on events occurring towards the end of the book.