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🤖 Microbots Repaired Damaged Spinal Cords in Mice Spinal cord injuries often lead to permanent paralysis because nerve cells have a limited ability to regenerate, and scar tissue around the injury site can block the gro…

✖️ New York Wants to Ban AI "Friendships" for Kids The New York State Legislature passed a bill to restrict minors' access to most AI companion features. If signed by the governor, it would take effect on January 1, 2027…

❓ IT Engineer Exempted from Using AI Due to Religious Beliefs At the IT company where 34-year-old Erin Maus works, developers are required to use AI. But Erin is a follower of Unitarian Universalism, a liberal religious…

🌥 Claude Fable 5: The Smartest and Terribly Human Model from Anthropic Anthropic has released Fable 5, the first model in their new line of super-powerful neural networks. It is based on the same underlying model as Myt…

🔍 Gemini Watermarks Found in War Thunder Textures War Thunder players spotted Gemini watermarks on several in-game assets sold for real money. Gaijin Entertainment has acknowledged the issue, removed the disputed elemen…

❗️ Scientists Use Precise Gene Editing in Human Embryos for the First Time Researchers used base-editing technology to modify three genes in human embryos at an early stage of development. In theory, this could make it e…

🚀 Apple Makes Siri a Real AI Assistant At WWDC 2026, Apple announced the biggest update to Siri. The AI in the Apple ecosystem now runs on a mix of the company's own models and Google Gemini technology. The assistant is…

⏫ Canadian Engineers Built an "Unbeatable" AI Air Hockey Robot A team of engineers from the University of British Columbia spent about 1.5 years on the project. Air hockey looks simple, but teaching a robot to play it is…

💡 Nvidia CEO Dreams of Dying on the Job In an interview with CNA, Jensen Huang said he wants to work as long as possible, and dying on the job would be "a dream come true." He can't imagine a more meaningful life. On to…

🎥 C++: The Documentary—a Film About the Language That Powers Half the World A documentary film C++: The Documentary by CultRepo has dropped on YouTube. ❓ In 2025, around 16 million developers were writing in C++, roughl…

🚀 China Developed a Washing Machine for Astronauts—No Water, No Detergent In space, water is scarce. Every drop is recycled and used for drinking and hygiene. So astronauts don't wash their clothes—they wear them until…

🎮 Roblox Aims to Turn into an AI Game Roblox has acquired Morpheus AI, a developer of "world models" designed to generate interactive 3D worlds in real time. Additionally, the founders of Dynamics Lab and Lucid AI—two o…

🔍 A New Method Corrects Vision in Just a Minute—Without Lasers or Incisions Scientists in California have developed a non-invasive, simpler, and less expensive alternative to laser eye surgery that corrects nearsightedn…

🤖 One In Six People Would Consider Intimacy with an AI Robot These are the findings from the survey done by British polling firm YouGov. The researchers asked nearly 10,000 people across six countries about the potentia…

🌲 Martin Scorsese Joins AI Startup Black Forest Labs as an Adviser A ten-time Oscar nominee for Best Director (by the way, he's won only one statuette) Scorsese has become a consultant for the makers of the Flux image g…

🤖 AI Controls Cyborg Cockroaches by Listening to Their Bodies Researchers at Osaka University have developed a special system for Madagascar hissing cockroaches: the insect wears a tiny "backpack" with sensors that simu…

✈️ Pigeons Sense The Magnetic Field With Liver Pigeons may have an unusual "compass" in their livers. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Bonn found that liver macrophages—im…

❗️ A Pancreatic Cancer Pill Nearly Doubled Patients' Survival At ASCO, the world's largest oncology conference, the audience rose to its feet in applause. Doctors cheered and whistled—a rare sight at a scientific session…

⚡️ Google Wants to Release Millions of Infected Mosquitoes in the U.S. Google has filed an application with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeking permission to release 64 million male mosquitoes infected with…

💼 There Will Be No "AI Apocalypse" in the Labor Market This week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that he was "delighted to ⁠be wrong" in his predictions about AI's impact on the labor market and job cuts. According to h…

🔥 A Drug for Chronic Hepatitis B Has Passed Clinical Trials In Phase III clinical trials, bepirovirsen, a drug from the UK pharmaceutical company GSK, showed a 19% functional cure rate in patients with chronic hepatitis…

⏫ AI Detects ADHD in Adults From Medical Records Researchers in Sweden have developed an AI tool that can identify signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults by analyzing their medical records. The model…

🎧 AI Can Be Hacked With Sound Humans Can't Hear Researchers from China and Singapore have demonstrated a new kind of attack on voice AI assistants: a malicious command can be hidden directly inside audio—for example, in…

💡 AI Water Turret vs. Pigeons Viennese ML engineer Maximilian Bachl had a pigeon problem—the roof outside his window was taken over by birds. But he found an effective solution: he built an automated water turret. A cam…

💡 The Pope Leo XIV's AI Encyclical May Have Been Written by AI Blogger Linch argues that at least part of the key papal document Magnifica Humanitas—on preserving humanity in the age of AI—was written by an AI. The argu…

❤️ Chinese Scientists Grew a "Living Pacemaker" from Stem Cells Researchers in Shanghai have created the world's first lab-grown model of the sinoatrial node—the tiny cluster of cells in the heart that generates the elec…

✈️ When Will We Fly on Supersonic Planes Again? The last flight of the supersonic passenger jet Concorde on the London–New York route took place on October 24, 2003. 23 years later, the world is returning to supersonic f…

💡 After "Flying" in VR, People Believed They Had Wings In an experiment conducted by Chinese scientists, 25 volunteers "flew" in virtual reality four times over the course of a week. During the half-hour sessions, the p…

📸 Сlients Are Asking For Unrealistic Surgeries Because of AI, Doctors Complain Before going to a plastic surgery clinic, clients are increasingly using AI to generate their "ideal face." For women, this means "poreless"…

💡 Brains From Dead Donors Are Being Used To Test New Drugs U.S. biotech startup Bexorg has developed BrainEx, a system that can keep human brain tissue metabolically active for up to 24 hours after a donor's death. The…