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07/23/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Power crisis looms: PJM warns of grid collapse as AI servers and retiring plants collide
PJM Interconnection’s grid faces capacity crunch amid AI data center boom. I servers now consume twice as much power as older models, straining the eastern U.S. grid. Retired fossil fuel plants and renewable intermittency worsen reliability risks. Capacity auction costs surged to $14.7B, driven by data center electricity demand. Watchdog urges data centers to build […]
07/19/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Another silent siege on user data as Google’s Gemini AI oversteps android privacy
Google’s Gemini AI now accesses users’ third-party apps (WhatsApp, Messages) on Android without explicit consent, overriding prior privacy settings beginning July 7. The update enables human review of data by Google, even if users disable “Gemini Apps Activity,” which stores interactions temporarily for “safety” but retains app access. Users face confusion navigating incomplete opt-out instructions, […]
07/15/2025
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By Willow Tohi
China warns of ethical dangers as global military AI race heats up
China warns of “indiscriminate killings” posed by autonomous combat robots, prompting ethical and legal scrutiny. PLA Daily urges adherence to updated robotics ethics principles, citing Asimov’s laws as inadequate for current tech. U.S. Army advances human-robot collaboration through AI, enhancing battlefield mobility and real-time communication. Both nations face challenges in balancing military efficacy with moral […]
07/12/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat pioneers peer-to-peer messaging beyond the internet
Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging app developed under Jack Dorsey’s Block, enables secure offline communication without internet or centralized servers. The decentralized platform uses mesh networking to create autonomous chat clusters, encrypting messages for privacy and resisting censorship. Unlike Meta’s WhatsApp or Signal, Bitchat avoids data collection and operates registration-free, focusing on resilience for crisis scenarios. […]
07/10/2025
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By Willow Tohi
A new era in predictive AI: Centaur’s cognitive breakthrough
Centaur AI achieves 64% accuracy predicting human behavior across diverse psychological experiments. Trained on 10M decisions from 60,000 participants via Psych-101, the world’s largest human-behavior dataset. Model generalizes predictions to new scenarios, far exceeding traditional specialized cognitive models. Potential applications in education, healthcare and ethics, but raises serious privacy and misuse concerns. Open-source system emphasizes […]
07/10/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Google’s AI overviews spark EU antitrust clash: Publishers accuse search giant of undermining journalism
Google’s AI Overviews, top search summaries, reduce publisher traffic and revenue. Independent Publishers Alliance files EU antitrust complaint citing abuse of dominance. “No-click” searches rose to 69% in May 2025 (vs. 56% in 2024). Claims AI tools boost discovery of original content and cites algorithmic updates. Similar lawsuits in the U.S. and U.K., invoking antitrust […]
07/07/2025
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By Willow Tohi
A solar storm’s billion-dollar agricultural toll and the race to fortify GPS systems
A May 2024 solar storm caused over $565M in agricultural losses, crippling GPS-guided farming across the U.S. Midwest. The Gannon Solar Storm disrupted GPS signals by up to 230 feet, triggered by solar particles heating the ionosphere into a plasma “wall.” Farmers lost an average of $17,000 per farm, with 70% of U.S. croplands relying […]
07/01/2025
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By Willow Tohi
MIT’s atmospheric water harvester breaks barriers in world’s driest regions
MIT scientists created a hydrogel-based “bubble wrap” device to extract clean drinking water from air, even in Death Valley’s extreme heat and aridity. The system uses layered hydrogel domes and cooled glass panels to trap and condense vapor, yielding 57-161.5 ml daily during tests. Glycerol stabilizes lithium salts in hydrogel, keeping contamination below safe levels […]
06/30/2025
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By Willow Tohi
China develops a machine learning technology to detect equatorial plasma bubbles
Scientists in China develop machine learning technology to detect equatorial plasma bubbles with 88% accuracy using airglow observations. These atmospheric anomalies disrupt GPS and radio signals, endangering aviation and emergency communications. A 2002 plasma bubble contributed to a U.S. military helicopter crash in Afghanistan, killing three soldiers. Detection innovations aim to create early warnings, mitigating […]
06/29/2025
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By Willow Tohi
ETH Zurich unveils revolutionary photosynthetic material to absorb CO2 from air and build structures
A Swiss research team engineered a living material with cyanobacteria that captures CO2 via photosynthesis and mineralizes it into stable carbonates. The 3D-printable material, described as “self-repairing,” hardens over time into a mineral skeleton, ideal for constructing carbon-neutral buildings. Over 400 days, the material stored up to 26 mg of CO2 per gram, exceeding other […]
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