Science Policy, Ethics & Society

27+ min ago   (667+ words) If we roll back a few years, then the trend we had was an image filter that gave you dog ears and a wagging tongue on Snapchat. But today AI can reimagine your face, clothes, surroundings and even your identity…...

1+ hour ago   (596+ words) I work on LensUp, which does exactly that — the whole pipeline runs in the tab, and files are never uploaded. Disclosure up front: it's our tool, and this post is about the parts that were harder than the pipeline itself....

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (659+ words) Scientists have uncovered a natural braking system that helps the immune system switch off inflammation and prevent harmful immune cells from building up. Boosting this pathway in people reduced inflammation-related immune changes and sped up pain relief, pointing toward potential…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1250+ words) The most useful starting point is a list of direct image URLs. Once you have that list, you can download the files together with a browser tool or a small command-line workflow. This tutorial covers both approaches, plus a JavaScript…...

56+ min ago   (714+ words) A false claim can circle the globe before the truth has finished typing its rebuttal, and one of the most urgent questions in modern network science is deceptively simple to state: who started it? A new in-depth survey published in…...

2+ hour, 27+ min ago   (992+ words) AI is learning more than human knowledge. It is also learning how civilization abandons responsibility. This essay is a …...

2+ hour, 44+ min ago   (155+ words) You didn’t build the model, the dataset, or the plugin — but you inherited every risk that comes with them.Continue reading on Medium » Day 8 — LLM03: Supply Chain | Guardrail Gazette You didn’t build the model, the dataset, or the plugin — but you…...

19+ hour, 43+ min ago   (678+ words) Meta glasses, made by the company behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, have made it easier for people to film discreetly in public....

3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (613+ words) Deep learning has been quietly transforming the way scientists and analysts read the Earth from above, but one of the most stubborn bottlenecks has been getting powerful object detection models to work smoothly inside the geographic information systems that professionals…...

4+ hour, 5+ min ago   (89+ words) A widespread blind spot in one of genomics’ most routine measurements has been brought into sharp focus by a new study comparing short-read and long-read transcriptome sequencing. Researchers report that next-generation sequencing, the short-read workhorse of modern RNA analysis, systematically…...