The Milky Way Has a Thin Disk, a Thick Disk, and a Huge Halo
The Milky Way’s thin disk is about 700 light-years high, its thick disk is about 3,000 light-years high, and its…
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US Directive Suspends Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were suspended for all users on June 12, 2026 after the company said it…
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Historical Mysteries Are Past Events With Incomplete Evidence
A historical mystery is a past event, person, or claim that cannot yet be fully explained from the surviving evidence.Historiography…
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The Flynn Effect Has Slowed and in Some Places Reversed
The Flynn Effect is the long-run rise in average scores on standardized cognitive tests over the 20th century, and the…
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Ethyl Formate Gave the Milky Way Its Raspberries-and-rum Reputation
The Milky Way gets the “raspberries and rum” line because astronomers detected ethyl formate in a dust cloud near the…
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Prompt Injection Became Serious Enough for ICML to Police in Peer Review
Prompt injection is an LLM attack that makes a model follow untrusted instructions hidden in user input or external content,…
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The Kumari Tradition Makes a Child the Living Goddess of Nepal
The Kumari of Nepal is a prepubescent Newar Shakya girl chosen to embody Taleju Bhawani, worshipped as a living goddess,…
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Local LLMs Can Replace ChatGPT for Some Jobs
Local LLMs can match ChatGPT for some jobs, especially privacy-sensitive, offline, low-latency, or tightly scoped work, but ChatGPT is still…
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Local LLMs Do Not Have Internet Access by Default
A local LLM does not have internet access by default. If a model is running on your machine, inference is…
