Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The other week, I was reading an email I'd written when a strange notion occurred to me. Would it perhaps be better, an unsettling new voice suddenly whispered, to leave it in? This is a thought that would've appalled me a year ago. As a professional writer, I have long prided myself on impeccable grammar, judiciously wielded punctuation, and (at times indulgent) verbosity.

This study explores the potential for predicting turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) from more readily acquired temperature data using temperature profiles and turbulence data collected concurrently at 10 Hz during a small experimental prescribed burn in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Machine learning models, including Deep Neural Networks, Random Forest Regressor, Gradient Boosting, and Gaussian Process Regressor, were employed to assess the potential to predict TKE from temperature perturbations and explore temporal and spatial dynamics of correlations. Data visualization and correlation analyses revealed patterns and relationships between thermocouple temperatures and TKE, providing insight into the underlying dynamics. More accurate predictions of TKE were achieved by employing various machine learning models despite a weak correlation between the predictors and the target variable. The results demonstrate significant success, particularly from regression models, in accurately predicting the TKE. The findings of this study demonstrate a novel numerical approach to identifying new relationships between temperature and airflow processes in and around the fire environment. These relationships can help refine our understanding of combustion environment processes and the coupling and decoupling of fire environment processes necessary for improving fire operations strategy and fire and smoke model predictions. The findings of this study additionally highlight the valuable role of machine learning techniques in analyzing the complex large datasets of the fire environments, showcasing their potential to advance fire research and management practices. Introduction Wildland fire is a natural and essential ecological process.

The former chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party warned about a fast-moving software and technology race between the United States and China, arguing the weaponization of supply chains could force a showdown between the free world and its totalitarian rivals. Former Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier about a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) op-ed he wrote Sunday, outlining his concerns about China's growing technological dominance. "On the modern battlefield, we need to not only know our adversary but know ourselves and map our supply chain in great detail," he said Monday on "Special Report." Gallagher, the head of defense for Palantir Technologies, a Denver-based software company, highlighted how China could use its manufactured port cranes across the world to disrupt international commerce if the United States were to get into a conflict with China over Taiwan. "The Biden administration recently warned that Chinese-made port cranes could be'controlled... from remote locations.' European companies found that Chinese groups may have gained access to the systems that control cargo ships. Billions of endpoints connect to the internet, including sensors and devices that physically interact with critical infrastructure. Anyone with control over a portion of the technology stack such as semiconductors, cellular modules, or hardware devices, can use it to snoop, incapacitate or kill," he wrote in the WSJ.

One night this past February, over drinks and moody bar lighting, Eric Green and his friends were swapping stories of their recent hookups when one mentioned they'd used the app Sniffies to have public sex. A 30-year-old tattoo artist who works in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Green identifies as a bottom, is a frequent user of dating apps, and has an active sex life--only, he'd never heard of Sniffies. It wasn't long after that night out, Green was overtaken by "complete and total horniness" while at home, and decided to sign up himself. When he opened the app he was reminded of Google Maps, only instead of restaurants and shopping recommendations, he was inundated with nudes and suggestions for the nearest pump-and-dump. "I expected it to be like Grindr and Jack'd, but after I checked it out I realized it was super accessible," Green says, referencing two other popular queer hookup platforms.

Researchers say LLMs still have a ways to go before they can be used reliably for high-stakes purposes. Shannon Gallagher, a Carnegie Mellon researcher speaking at the conference, said her team was asked last year by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to explore how LLMs can be used by intelligence agencies. Gallagher said that in her team's study, they devised a "balloon test," in which they prompted LLMs to describe what happened in the high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon incident last year, as a proxy for the kinds of geopolitical events an intelligence agency might be interested in. The responses ran the gamut, with some of them biased and unhelpful.

Defense companies exploring artificial intelligence will help the U.S. military "keep up" with rivals like China, a former fighter pilot told Fox News. The Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act could include a House-authored provision that prohibits the United States government and its contractors from buying equipment from "adversarial biotech companies" that work to "exploit" Americans' genetic information for "malign purposes," Fox News Digital has learned. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives are currently conferencing and negotiating on final NDAA text that can be passed by both chambers. The provision, which was passed in the original House bill, was introduced by House China Select Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher, R-Wis. The provision prohibits the purchase of biotechnology equipment or services from all United States adversaries, including North Korea, Russia, Iran and China.

Speculation is rampant as US lawmakers continue to voice their own opinions about the explosive claims of an illegal, hidden UFO crash retrieval program made public this month by Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch. Congressman and Marine veteran Mike Gallagher let loose his own theories on the mystery this Tuesday, suggesting that UFOs might be time-traveling craft piloted by humans from the future, as in the 1984 film'The Terminator.' Appearing on ESPN analyst Pat McAfee's sports talk show, the Wisconsin Republican also floated his hypothesis that the unexplained phenomena'could actually be an ancient civilization that's just been hiding here and is suddenly showing itself.' But Rep. Gallagher also brought the conversation back down to Earth, airing his concerns that the airborne mysteries might prove to be breakthrough aerospace technology mastered by a US foreign adversary. 'I'm probably the most interested in is whether it's adversary technology, particularly from China,' said Gallagher, who is also the chair of the House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Whether or not we are alone in the universe, the congressman is not alone among his fellow lawmakers in openly airing his UFO concerns.

The notion that Drake allegedly uses a ghostwriter to write his rhymes is a conspiracy that has haunted the rapper for years. He told Genius that he doesn't lean on ghostwriters, saying, "Any song that really, really did damage for me, I wrote every single lyric." The rumors were also the subject of his famous feud with rapper Meek Mill, spawning his pair of diss tracks, "Charged Up" and "Back to Back." But now, a more ominous presence has appeared on social media platforms to actually ghostwrite a Drake song--sort of. Last weekend a TikTok creator by the name of @ghostwriter977 uploaded a video in which they premiered an AI-generated "Drake" track titled "Heart on My Sleeve" with a faux-assist from a similarly AI-generated The Weeknd.

Swanton Sector NBPC President Sean Walsh joined'Fox & Friends First' to discuss Mayorkas' testimony before Congress as the crisis continues to spiral. Facial recognition technology makes unlocking your smartphone a breeze. But with the convenience, comes a disturbing new crime trend for bandits. It involves "drug-facilitated robbery" schemers who knock their victims out with date rape drugs, unlock the victims' phones with their unconscious faces and drain their bank accounts of tens of thousands of dollars. While robberies involving incapacitated victims are nothing new, the technology offers thieves quick and easy access to incapacitated victims.

Yesterday, hundreds in Eckersley's community of friends and colleagues packed the pews for an unusual sort of memorial service at the church-like sanctuary of the Internet Archive in San Francisco--a symposium with a series of talks devoted not just to remembrances of Eckersley as a person but a tour of his life's work. Facing a shrine to Eckersley at the back of the hall filled with his writings, his beloved road bike, and some samples of his Victorian goth punk wardrobe, Turan, Gallagher, and 10 other speakers gave presentations about Eckersley's long list of contributions: his years pushing Silicon Valley towards better privacy-preserving technologies, his co-founding of a groundbreaking project to encrypt the entire web, and his late-life pivot to improving the safety and ethics of AI. The event also served as a kind of soft launch for AOI, the organization that will now carry on Eckersley's work after his death. Eckersley envisioned the institute as an incubator and applied laboratory that would work with major AI labs to that take on the problem Eckersley had come to believe was, perhaps, even more important than the privacy and cybersecurity work to which he'd devoted decades of his career: redirecting the future of artificial intelligence away from the forces causing suffering in the world, toward what he described as "human flourishing." "We need to make AI not just who we are, but what we aspire to be," Turan said in his speech at the memorial event, after playing a recording of the phone call in which Eckersley had recruited him.