The U.S. Surgeon General identified an epidemic of loneliness in an advisory last year. Connections across generations can help both parties. kn1/iStockphoto/Getty Images When Andrea Levitt, 82, first

SummaryCompanies AI companies face delays and challenges with training new large language modelsSome researchers are focusing on more time for inference in new modelsShift could impact AI arms race fo

A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital, in what is believed to be Canada’s first human case of bird flu. “This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no underl

The newly elected premier of New Brunswick has called on Canada’s federal government to aid in a “full, open scientific investigation” into the mysterious brain illness that has plagued the province f

Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, let’s get our minds as far away from Earth as possible by visiting an ancient law-breaking black hole that is consuming everything around it at an incomprehens

Does aspartame cause cancer? The potentially carcinogenic properties of the popular artificial sweetener, added to everything from soft drinks to children’s medicine, have been debated for decades. It

I went to the UX Brighton conference yesterday. The quality of the presentations was really good this year, probably the best yet. Usually there are one or two stand-out speakers (like Tom Kerwin last

Researchers have shown that it's possible to abuse OpenAI's real-time voice API for ChatGPT-4o, an advanced LLM chatbot, to conduct financial scams with low to moderate success rates. ChatGPT-4o is Op

The concentration of planet-heating pollutants clogging the atmosphere hit record levels in 2023, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said. It found carbon dioxide is accumulating faster t

Hundreds of early ballots cast for the US presidential election have been burned in two suspected attacks in Washington and Oregon, exacerbating tensions ahead of next Tuesday’s knife-edge contest. Po

London-based distributor Neal's Yard Dairy announced on Instagram that it was "the victim of a sophisticated fraud" involving high-value cheddar cheese. They are working with law enforcement to track

“We take pride in the fact that we are expanding the market by welcoming new investors into the financial system.” - Robinhood’s S-1 Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge US citizens can gamble on t

How X users can earn thousands from US election misinformation and AI images 12 hours ago Marianna SpringSocial media investigations correspondent BBC Some users on X who spend their days sharing cont

Japan’s Mount Fuji remained snowless on Tuesday, marking the latest date that its slopes have been bare since records began 130 years ago, the country’s weather agency said. The volcano’s snowcap begi

At least 64 people are feared to have died after torrential rains hit southern and eastern Spain on Tuesday, bringing flash floods that raged through towns and cut off roads and railway lines. As the

TL;DR Oligo’s research team recently uncovered 6 vulnerabilities in Ollama, one of the leading open-source frameworks for running AI models. Four of the flaws received CVEs and were patched in a recen

The death toll from floods in Spain’s Valencia region has topped 200. A huge clean-up is under way amid desperate conditions, with severe weather warnings still in place. The storms which caused this

Lisa Schnirring October 28, 2024 Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) NIAID/Flickr cc In experiments designed to learn more about the threat from the H5N1 avian flu virus spreading from cows to people, research

A pig in Oregon has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. It's the first time the virus has been detected in swine in the United States. Test results

I think every creator might need to make a core decision of whether they're doing: A PERSONAL brand on which you post pretty much everything, including possibly having a business aspect. A PROFESSIONA

The US added just 12,000 jobs in October, the last snapshot of the employment market before election day, in a report heavily affected by the strike at Boeing and two recent hurricanes. The unemployme

Today we have something a little different from Gareth Edwards, who typically chronicles the forgotten history of Silicon Valley in his column, The Crazy Ones. When the British government announced la

about me I am 18, born in 2006. This is generally a good thing as I am in the prime of life currently. I am not one of those people who think they were “born in the wrong decade”, I think I was born a

TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project 21 October 2024 João da SilvaBusiness reporter Getty Images The firm said its commercial online operations, including its large language AI models,

The sound of birdsong is so loud outside Yulia Mykytenko’s current home, an abandoned house somewhere in the Donbas region of Ukraine, that I can hear it through my laptop. We’re speaking on Zoom, Myk

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McDonald’s has been praised by the liberal media for giving work experience to a convicted felon who is currently looking for a new job. Florida resident Donald Trump, 78, has a string of felony convi

The US government may ask a judge to force the breakup of Google’s business as it attempts to challenge the tech corporation’s monopoly over the internet search market. The Department of Justice has f

It’s been a brutal week in weather-related disasters across the US. Large parts of the south-east are still grappling with the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, and another potentially catastrop

It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, crustaceans and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface to feed on microscopic algae, returning to the depth

RTO... or don't return at all Amazon exec tells employees to work elsewhere if they dislike RTO policy Using RTO to push quitting could result in an "array of legal consequences." Scharon Harding – Oc

Health officials have warned that the number of Covid patients in hospital has increased, with deaths rising by over 25 per cent. Scientists are currently investigating the potential risks associated

The overwhelming majority of young Americans worry about the climate crisis, and more than half say their concerns about the environment will affect where they decide to live and whether to have child

Navigation breadcrumbs Home Blog and News 1st August 2023 Traffic may be as important as industrial farming for destroying wildlife UKHACC Chair, Richard Smith writes his thoughts on Traffication and

Dear readers, First off, hello from Substack! I am writing from andrewchen.substack.com where you’ll find me from now on. After 15+ years of writing via wordpress on andrewchen.com (and its predecesso