New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...

They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

Burmese python found with 20 eggs under Florida sidewalk: 'They are not native to our area and are disrupting the ecosystem'

The reptiles, native to Southeast Asia, are considered an invasive species, and state law requires them to be euthanized ...
Yahoo Finance

Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees

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WPBF

PYTHON BE GONE: New efforts to combat Florida's python problem

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...
Fast Company

Cognitive scientists found using AI for just 10 minutes impairs brain performance

Critics of artificial intelligence caution that, as a relatively new technology, its long-term effects on the human brain are still unknown. But a new study shows that AI could be dangerous even in ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
WESH

Python Problem: Experts say the large snakes are moving north into Brevard County

BURMESE PYTHONS ARE ONE OF THE STATE’S MOST FEARSOME INVASIVE SPECIES, AND WHILE THEY MAINTAINED A PRESENCE IN THE EVERGLADES FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS, A NEW STUDY REVEALS THEY’RE TRAVELING NORTH. JJ ...
Scientific American

An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...
The Hill

Alcohol is our worst substance use problem: Don’t cut research funding

When Americans think about the nation’s substance use crisis, opioids, fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine dominate the conversation. But the substance causing the greatest harm is not illicit. It ...
NPR

Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

Philosopher Meghan Sullivan says during tough times, ancient wisdom can serve as a guide. From politics to religion to AI, she poses big questions to help you find out what the good life means today.
NBC Los Angeles

Ex-UCLA gynecologist pleads guilty to sex crime charges

Former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps, whose conviction on sex crime charges involving two women was reversed by an appeals court in February, pleaded guilty Tuesday to 13 felony counts and was ...