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Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.
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A Candidate Named β€˜Count Binface’ Is the Most Normal Part of This Pivotal UK Election

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Clacton's parliamentary race has it all: Nigel Farage, a man dressed as a trash can, a Union Jack bikini, white nationalist conspiracy theories, and 34 candidates on the ballot.
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Space Agencies Are Trying to Keep Astronauts From Losing Their Sight

By: Isabella Ward β€”
A device currently being used to help octogenarians do self-administered eye exams could be part of future space missions to monitor astronauts’ ocular health.
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Microsoft’s Quantum Chief Doesn’t Care That Scientists Don’t Believe His Results

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to β€œprove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Science would disagree.
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Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives

By: Isabella Ward β€”
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of β€œdisclosure fatigue.”
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X Says Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Elon Musk’s platform attacked the country’s β€œinvasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy.
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An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test.
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Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.
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Sunshine and Saharan Dust Make Miami’s World Cup Quarter-Final a Dangerous Game for England Norway

By: Isabella Ward β€”
England and Norway players will face off under extreme and dangerous levels of heat stress, scientists say, thanks to a wet-bulb index of nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
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A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the β€œChat Control” bill to find child abuse material online.
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British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit

By: Isabella Ward β€”
The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave.
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New York Is About to Feel Hotter Than Phoenix

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches.
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Two Massive Earthquakes Struck Venezuela. Thousands Are Feared Dead

By: Isabella Ward β€”
The country’s interim leader declared a state of emergency on Wednesday following shocks measuring 7.5 magnitude after two quakes hit in less than a minute.
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London Climate Action Week Foiled by Extreme Heat

By: Isabella Ward β€”
As record-breaking heat crushes Europe, organizers are moving events online to avoid exposing people to dangerously high temperatures.
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French Startup Uses Special Polymers to Better Help Nerves Heal

By: Isabella Ward β€”
The biodegradable material can help improve healing after surgeryβ€”or an avocado-related accident.
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The UK Just Lost Its Sixth Prime Minister of the Decade

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Keir Starmer’s resignation on Monday morning paves the way for yet another leadership battle.
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The Most Promising Ebola Vaccine Has Been Sitting on the Shelf for 15 Years

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.
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Longevity Startup Doses First Human in Bid to Reverse Age-Related Sight Loss

By: Isabella Ward β€”
The FDA recently approved the cellular rejuvenation therapy ER-100 for human clinical trials. While vision is the first target, it could have applications for a variety of age-related disease.
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Quantum Computing Is Having Its Public Market Moment

By: Isabella Ward β€”
Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.
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