AI, Robotics, CogSci, Tech & More
AI
New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’
VisualWebArena: Evaluating Multimodal Agents on Realistic Visual Web Tasks
RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval
Strengthening LLM Trust Boundaries: A Survey of Prompt Injection Attacks
FCC Makes AI-Generated Voices In Robocalls Illegal
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
Horse rides Astronaut, redux
Robotics
Robotic Tongue Licks Gecko Gripper Clean
Autonomous robots are cutting grass in this Southern California town
3D Printing a Robotic Hand with Bones, Ligaments, and Tendons
Bionic Snail Robot Enhanced by Poroelastic Foams Crawls Using Direct and Retrograde Waves
CogSci
The Alien Hand of the Technosphere. Kurt Goldstein and the Trauma of Intelligent Machines
Standard Causes of Human Misjudgment
Tech
The Apple Vision Pro: A Review
Vergence–accommodation conflicts hinder visual performance and cause visual fatigue
How many megapixels equivalent does the eye have?
JPEG XL Art
Energy
The Misguided Push Toward Electric Construction Equipment – and Why Hybrids are the Better Alternative
Zero-emission truck deployments reach every state, surge over 200%
Medicine
‘It’s all gone’: CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission
The First Crispr Medicine Is Now Approved in the US
Animals
Road kill seagulls ‘drunk’ on flying ant acid (2013)
Jet-Black Eggs Found In The Pacific Abyss Reveal A New Wormy World Record
Dolphin with thumbs discovered in the ocean
Rare Deep-Sea Anglerfish Washes Up on a California Beach
More
Over 2 Miles Thick Water Ice Buried Beneath Mar’s Equator Discovered, Enough to Cover the Entire Planet in a Shallow Ocean If Melted
Why L.A. Has Clashing Street Grids
History of mystery booms