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ArchiveDNA evidence is the courtroom gold standard. Researchers just showed AI-assisted code can silently alter the digital files that crime-lab machines produce — and nobody can tell the difference.
Yesterday we flagged the announcement. Now the implications: anyone with a laptop can independently verify these proofs. Binary certainty in mathematics is a new kind of thing.
A physicist built a mini-universe from cold atoms inside a vacuum chamber. What emerged, without being programmed, was an arrow of time. Hossenfelder almost skipped the paper — then couldn't stop thinking about it.
Musk loved the movie. The movie, this piece argues, is about him — and not kindly. Nolan may have pulled off the most public Trojan Horse in cinema history.
The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos | WIRED Skip to main content Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story When Charlotte Mason ponders cosmic mysteries, she likes to doodle. “I am quite a visual person,” she said. “I usually draw a lot of pictures trying to