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Single Voice Command Exposes Humanoid Robots to Hijacking
4+ hour, 45+ min ago (188+ words) Single Voice Command Exposes Humanoid Robots to Hijacking The compromised robot used short-range wireless signals to infect another robot that was offline and not connected to any network. Posted by lamplighter at 12:30 PM | 1 COMMENT | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Commercial…...
Is Violent Crime in Washington, DC at 30-year low?
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (131+ words) Critics have expressed skepticism at data coming from the Metropolitan Police Department of the U.S. capital. Snopes looked at FBI data. Critics have expressed skepticism at data coming from the Metropolitan Police Department of the U.S. capital. Snopes looked at FBI data....
Tom Lehrer, Sardonic Musical Satirist, Dies
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (340+ words) Tom Lehrer, Sardonic Musical Satirist, Dies Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs made him a favorite satirist in the 1950s and '60s on college campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country, died on Saturday at his…...
Remarkable Pattern Discovered Behind Prime Numbers
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (557+ words) "The good news is that the world will still be safe." Posted by HeliumRat at 09:32 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | "In other words, integer partitions detect the primes in infinitely many natural ways." #1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-22 09:12 PM…...
New AI Weather Forecasting System Called a Huge Step Forward
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (207+ words) The Aardvark Weather system will be several thousand times faster than current forecasting methods, and more accurate. The Aardvark Weather system will be several thousand times faster than current forecasting methods, and more accurate. Posted by lamplighter at 07:30 AM | 2 COMMENTS…...