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Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case

quantamagazine.org

Last spring, a team of nearly 1,000 cosmologists announced that dark energy — the enigmatic agent...
Last spring, a team of nearly 1,000 cosmologists announced that dark energy — the enigmatic agent propelling the universe to swell in size at an ever-increasing rate — might be slackening. The bombshell result, based on the team’s observations of the motions of millions of galaxies combined with other data, was tent...
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The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now

science.org
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Database management in a single PHP file

github.com
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Neurosymbolic Decision Trees

arxiv.org
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Show HN: MCP-Kafka – Natural Language Interface for Kafka Commands

github.com
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DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet

lbl.gov

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration has publicly released the first 13 months of data from...
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration has publicly released the first 13 months of data from its main survey — a treasure trove that will help other researchers investigate big questions in astrophysics. Although DESI’s Data Release 1 is only a fraction of what the experiment will capture, the 270-t...
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OpenAI's o1-pro now available via API

openai.com
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Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds

szymanowiczs.github.io

Given one or more input images, we generate multi-view Splatter Images. To do so, we first...
Given one or more input images, we generate multi-view Splatter Images. To do so, we first generate the scene appearance and geometry using a multi-view diffusion model. Then, Splatter Images are regressed using a Gaussian Head. 3D Gaussians from multiple Splatter Images are combined to form the 3D scene. An animate...
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

theguardian.com

France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after...
France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French Nation...
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Tesla owners doxxed. Only way to get off the list? Sell your car

electrek.co
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Fundamental miscalculation in the design of Starship V2 and its engine section

twitter.com
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Commuter plane that crashed in Alaska was half a ton overweight for conditions

theguardian.com

A commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska, killing all 10 people onboard, was...
A commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska, killing all 10 people onboard, was half a ton overweight for the weather conditions, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released on Wednesday.The report said the plane was too heavy for conditions that cause icing at the speed an...
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Looking for beta testers for my GPS based game

cityquizler.com
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LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies

substack.com

Ever wondered how AI agents actually work behind the scenes? This guide breaks down how agent...
Ever wondered how AI agents actually work behind the scenes? This guide breaks down how agent systems are built as simple graphs - explained in the most beginner-friendly way possible!Note: This is a super-friendly, step-by-step version of the official PocketFlow Agent documentation. We've expanded all the concepts ...
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Mac is detecting Docker as a malware and keeping it from starting

github.com
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New high-definition images released of the baby universe

princeton.edu
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Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture

chipsandcheese.com

Intel’s foray into high performance graphics has enjoyed impressive progress over the past few years, and...
Intel’s foray into high performance graphics has enjoyed impressive progress over the past few years, and the company is not letting up on the gas. Tom Peterson from Intel has indicated that Xe3 hardware design is complete, and software work is underway. Some of that software work is visible across several different...
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Anonymous sources: Starship needs a major rebuild after 2 consecutive failures

behindtheblack.com
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300-year-old Polish beech voted Tree of the Year

bbc.co.uk
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Greenpeace must pay millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury

theguardian.com

A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of...
A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable for defamation and other claims over protests in the state nearly a decade ago.Energy Transfer Partners, a Dallas-based oil and gas company worth a...
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Control your attention on the web – Block sites on certain days and times

github.com
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ByteCraft: Generating video games and animations through bytes

emygervais.github.io

|| Paper | Model | Code || Screenshots of files generated by ByteCraft Contents: ByteCraft, Examples,...
|| Paper | Model | Code || Screenshots of files generated by ByteCraft Contents: ByteCraft, Examples, The future ByteCraft Imagine a world where you can write a prompt describing a video game or animation that you want, and a fully fledged executable file comes out. We take the first attempt at this crazy goal by tr...
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Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills

github.com
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Scoping a Local-First Image Archive

scottishstoater.com
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