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Growing Neural Cellular Automata: Differentiable Models That Self-Assemble and Regenerate
Researchers at Distill applied differentiable programming to cellular automata, training tiny per-cell neural networks to grow target images from a single seed
Japan's Postwar Reforestation Bet Now Drives a National Hay Fever Crisis
Postwar Japan stripped its mountains for fuel, then rebuilt them by planting fast-growing sugi (Japanese cedar) and hinoki (Japanese cypress) across roughly 10
Karpathy Reportedly Joins Anthropic, Per Viral X Post
A widely shared X post attributed to Andrej Karpathy announces his move to Anthropic. The linked page itself is inaccessible without JavaScript, so the underlyi
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets, drawing CFTC lawsuit
Governor Tim Walz signed legislation making Minnesota the first state to criminalize hosting or advertising prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, with
Mistral AI buys Austria's Emmi AI to build industrial engineering stack
Mistral AI is acquiring Linz-based Emmi AI, a startup specializing in Physics AI models that accelerate simulation workflows for energy, automotive, semiconduct
NYT op-ed: 'Democracy dies in H.R.' — but article body is unavailable
The submission points to a New York Times opinion piece headlined 'Actually, democracy dies in H.R.,' surfaced on Hacker News. The headline riffs on the Washing
Open-source tool strips SynthID, C2PA, and Gemini watermarks from AI images
A new Python CLI called remove-ai-watermarks bundles techniques for erasing both visible and invisible provenance markers from images produced by Gemini, DALL-E
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID to Watermark AI-Generated Images
OpenAI is integrating Google DeepMind's SynthID watermarking technology into its image generation pipeline, embedding imperceptible signals into AI-produced ima
OpenAI model disproves long-standing discrete geometry conjecture
An OpenAI model has produced a counterexample that falsifies a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a branch of mathematics concerned with combinatorial pro
OpenBSD 7.9 lands with SpacemiT K1 RISC-V support and heterogeneous CPU scheduling
OpenBSD 7.9 brings broad platform work alongside meaningful kernel changes. RISC-V gets first-class support for the SpacemiT K1 SoC, including a new clock/reset
Oxford study links right-hand dominance to the evolution of bipedal walking
Researchers at Oxford propose that the overwhelming prevalence of right-handedness in humans traces back to the shift to walking upright. As hominins moved onto
Railway Hit by 8-Hour Outage After Google Cloud Wrongly Suspended Its Account
On May 19, 2026, Google Cloud's automated systems incorrectly suspended Railway's production account, knocking out the platform's API, dashboard, control plane,