A commentary piece argues that if corporations enjoy legal personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment, they should also face the equivalent of capital punishment for serious wrongdoing. It traces this idea to 'judicial dissolution,' citing the 1889 New York Supreme Court case that forced the North River Sugar Refining Corporation—a 17-company sugar monopoly—to liquidate for abusing its charter through price-fixing and consolidation.
A group of electronic musicians, including 26-year-old producer Max 'H4RRIS' Harris, are publicly calling out peers they suspect of passing off AI-generated music as their own work. Harris argues that such material lacks genuine artistic intent and amounts to a way of profiting off stolen creative labor rather than true expression.
A Harvard Business School survey found that about half of U.S. workers favor working from home, with 40% willing to accept a pay cut of at least 5% for the option to telecommute. The trend is fueling interest in launching home-based startups, with several viable small-business ideas requiring no traditional office space.
A new study published in Nature reveals that the interior beneath Mars' southern hemisphere is roughly 400 to 750 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the interior beneath its northern hemisphere. Researchers led by University of Arizona scientist Alexander Berne used gravity data to uncover this asymmetry, which contrasts with the long-held assumption that planetary interiors are generally uniform in temperature.
President Trump awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, who flew around the moon in April. At the same ceremony, he signed an executive order establishing a Presidential Commission, chaired by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, to draft plans within 120 days for a new United States Space Academy meant to train personnel for NASA, the Space Force, and private space companies.
Samsung presented its Processing-in-Memory approach for LPDDR5X-9600 chips, embedding a MAC computation block into each of the 16 DRAM banks while keeping compatibility with standard memory controllers. By computing directly within each bank, the design taps into 614 GB/s of internal bandwidth versus the 76.8 GB/s ceiling of conventional two-bank DRAM access. Each PIM block includes an instruction register file, a source register file for activation vectors, and a scale register, with model weights fetched directly from the attached DRAM bank.
Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah Baldeo created a personalized AI chatbot trained on her texts, values and family rules so her 15-year-old son could seek her guidance while she traveled for work. Her son used the bot as intended for advice, but also tried to leverage it to convince the real Baldeo to let him hang out at a coffee shop in Chicago, generating arguments she hadn't anticipated.
An MIT student reportedly worked with dimethyl mercury despite the university's policy prohibiting its purchase or synthesis on campus. MIT confirmed the compound's use was unauthorized, though details on how the student obtained it and the extent of exposure remain unclear.
Meta reached an $18 billion settlement with a coalition of U.S. states that accused it of concealing the risks its platforms posed to young users, ending a high-profile trial in California. Under the deal Meta will pay roughly $12.7 billion outright and adopt new safeguards for minors, such as a two-hour daily limit, disabled cosmetic-surgery filters and stricter age checks, while the remaining $5.3 billion depends on rivals like TikTok and YouTube adopting similar protections.
For over a decade, computer science was seen as the surest path to a lucrative tech job, fueling a nearly 500% surge in CS degrees since 2008. Now, as artificial intelligence automates many coding tasks and shrinks entry-level tech hiring, some observers argue that math degrees may offer better long-term career security than CS.
A new piece on founder productivity argues that standard focus advice fails startup leaders because their job requires constantly switching between different types of work. It offers five tips aimed at helping founders keep their calendars aligned with their own priorities rather than being dictated by others' demands.
The project explains how to construct a compact potato grow box using standard lumber, deck screws, and simple materials that can be cut for free at hardware stores. Layering potatoes as they grow inside the tall box allows gardeners to yield up to 100 pounds of potatoes from just four square feet of space. The guide includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions for assembling support posts and side panels.
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