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Large language models are capable of answering a wide range of questions – but not always accurately Jamie Jin/Shutterstock Large language models (LLMs) seem to get less reliable at answering simple questions when they get bigger and learn from human…

As the days shorten and temperatures drop, it’s natural that people are likely to spend more time indoors even on sunny days. But new research has shown that by monitoring time spent in sunshine, which is also often linked to…

The results are in from last week’s poll and they are not encouraging – most voters believe that the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE is overpriced. How come? Well, part of the problem is that the phone comes with 8GB of…

Sep 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Hacking Nation-state threat actors backed by Beijing broke into a “handful” of U.S. internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign orchestrated to glean sensitive information, The Wall Street Journal reported…

Covalent bonds can contain two, four, six or eight electrons – or just one SimoneN/Shutterstock It is not often that chemists create a new kind of chemical bond, but they have just done it. A covalent bond that relies on…

A patient with type 1 diabetes has been functionally cured of the disease, requiring no insulin doses for over a year. The treatment involves growing and transplanting new insulin-producing cells from the patient’s own stem cells. Type 1 diabetes is…

Apple has officially started assembling the entire iPhone 16 series in India. This includes the two Pro series iPhones which is the first time Apple is manufacturing its top-tier flagships outside of China. The move is part of Apple’s continued…

Sep 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cyber Espionage An advanced threat actor with an India nexus has been observed using multiple cloud service providers to facilitate credential harvesting, malware delivery, and command-and-control (C2). Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare is…

Jet streams are strong winds that blow high above Earth’s surface NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Extreme weather caused by shifts in a jet stream seems to have brought summers of fires, failed harvests and rampant disease across Europe over the…

The angular surfaces of the iconic US F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft influenced the design of this novel vacation retreat in the Netherlands. It’s located on a former secret Nazi WWII military base and its name riffs on the site’s…