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Iran attacks Israel's Dimona nuclear site in retaliation, dozens wounded

Iran attacks Israel's Dimona nuclear site in retaliation, dozens wounded - Lemmy.World

>Iranian state television says a missile strike on Dimona, home to a nuclear facility in southern Israel, was a “response” to an earlier attack on its Natanz nuclear site. >Iran’s atomic energy organisation said the “Natanz enrichment complex was targeted this morning”, adding there was “no leakage of radioactive materials reported”, according to local media. >The Israeli army confirmed “a direct impact of an Iranian missile” on a building in the city that houses a nuclear research facility, AFP reported.

Delta_V 23h ago

Scientists Create Novel Organism with Primitive Nervous System

https://lemmy.world/post/44550492

Scientists Create Novel Organism with Primitive Nervous System - Lemmy.World

>In 2020, scientists at Tufts created tiny novel living forms called xenobots from frog cells, capable of traversing a watery environment, healing their own injuries, and even gathering other cells to build xenobot siblings. >Now, researchers at Tufts and the Wyss Institute have taken the quest to reimagine life forms a step further, adding nerve cells and observing how they self-organize and alter xenobot behavior. The resulting neurobots take on new shapes and show unique behaviors…

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Delta_V 3d ago

or supports a terrorist group

and any criticism of the regime will be labeled “terrorism”

Delta_V 4d ago

Top counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump’s Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat

https://lemmy.world/post/44387849

Top counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump’s Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat - Lemmy.World

>“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent said in a statement posted on social media… >“They’re not smart people, or they’re not savvy people,” Trump said. . . . >“It speaks to our hubris,” Kent told reporters while campaigning for Congress. “For us not to have learned from all this just shows that there are people making money and making their careers at the other end of it. They’ve been doing it on the backs and dead bodies of U.S. soldiers.” >During his 2022 congressional campaign, Kent paid Graham Jorgensen, a member of the far-right military group the Proud Boys, for consulting work. He also worked closely with Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer, and attracted support from a variety of far-right figures. >Early during his first campaign, Kent acknowledged that a political consultant set up a call that was joined by Nick Fuentes, a popular right-wing influencer who has said that Jews are holding the U.S. “hostage” and once proclaimed that “Hitler was awesome, Hitler was right.”

Delta_V Mar 13

Researchers Trick Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes

https://lemmy.world/post/44212524

Researchers Trick Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes - Lemmy.World

>…“This is what we call Agentic Blabbering: the AI Browser exposing what it sees, what it believes is happening, what it plans to do next, and what signals it considers suspicious or safe.” >By intercepting this traffic between the browser and the AI services running on the vendor’s servers and feeding it as input to a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), Guardio said it was able to make Perplexity’s Comet AI browser fall victim to a phishing scam in under four minutes. . . . >“If you can observe what the agent flags as suspicious, hesitates on, and more importantly, what it thinks and blabbers about the page, you can use that as a training signal,” Chen explained. “The scam evolves until the AI Browser reliably walks into the trap another AI set for it.”

Delta_V Mar 13

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

https://lemmy.world/post/44190351

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world - Lemmy.World

>Niantic’s AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players. . . . >“Five hundred million people installed that app in 60 days,” says Brian McClendon, CTO at Niantic Spatial, an AI company that Niantic spun out in May last year. According to the video-game firm Scopely, which bought Pokémon Go from Niantic at the same time, the game still drew more than 100 million players in 2024, eight years after it launched. . . . >Now Niantic Spatial is using that vast and unparalleled trove of crowdsourced data—images of urban landmarks tagged with super-accurate location markers taken from the phones of hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players around the world—to build a kind of world model, a buzzy new technology that grounds the smarts of LLMs in real-world environments. >The company’s latest product is a model that it says can pinpoint your location on a map to within a few centimeters, based on a handful of snapshots of the buildings or other landmarks in view. The firm wants to use it to help robots navigate with greater precision in places where GPS is unreliable. . .

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Delta_V Mar 10

When people talk about “smart thermostats” in this context, they’re saying they want the utility company to be able to set the temperature in your house in exchange for pennies off your electric bill.

By reducing the delta between peak and baseline energy demand, the utility can sell the power generating facilities that only run earn income on the hottest/coldest days but which are a constant expense even when they’re not running (i.e. most of the time).

The plan is to make poor people uncomfortable on the hottest and coldest days in order to lower everyone else’s electric bills.

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Delta_V Mar 9

FYI - the Factorio devs think we should all listen to what the nazis have to say, and give them platforms to say it.

We should probably stop giving them money and attention.

Factorio Founder Kovarex Interview; Cancel Culture and Secret Support

Niche Gamer has interviewed Factorio founder and developer Michal “Kovarex” Kovarik, on how attempts to cancel him failed, and secret support he received.

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Delta_V Mar 9

NASA shares photos of an extraordinary event witnessed by astronauts on the space station

https://lemmy.world/post/44050332

NASA shares photos of an extraordinary event witnessed by astronauts on the space station - Lemmy.World

[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/78084443-d411-48f4-946d-c13dfa3e4675.jpeg] >…A mysterious phenomenon known as “red sprites” randomly occur in the mesosphere, hanging like upside-down jellyfish for a scant ten milliseconds. Blue jets spear from cloud tops toward the stratosphere with eerie, silent urgency. >Both events happen so fast and high that capturing their details was nearly impossible. Yet ASIM can spot them from orbit. >One study used its footage and ground instruments to pinpoint the altitude of a single blue jet. This confirmed that these upward bolts really do punch beyond the weather layer we know. >Those measurements feed directly into storm-charging models, which in turn inform aviation guidelines about where dangerous electrical fields might lurk…