The ARC-AGI-2 benchmark is designed to be a difficult test for AI models Just_Super/Getty Images The most sophisticated AI models in existence today have scored poorly on a new benchmark designed to measure their progress towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) – and brute-force computing power won’t be enough to improve, as evaluators are now taking…
Tomasz Schafernaker BBC weather presenter BBC Weather Watchers/Juniperbeddy Blue skies on the beach in Lowestoft, Suffolk Yellow heat health alerts have been issued for most of England with temperatures set to climb as high as 33C by the weekend. Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East England, the South East, the South West…
Donald Trump wants minerals, and lots of them. America’s president is interested in Greenland for, among other things, its vast store of minerals and the largest deposits of rare earths outside China. In Ukraine he is eyeing the country’s apparently significant lithium resources. Noting Mr Trump’s interest, in February the Democratic Republic of Congo’s leaders…
Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural “beauty salons,” lively social hubs of activity where fish “clients” swim up and wait to be serviced by smaller fish cleaners. The little cleaners dart under and around their much bigger clients — even entering their mouths…
AND THEY’RE off! Well, some of them. One weak-kneed participant collapsed before the starting line. Another did so a few steps later. A third quickly ran into a railing. Still, the remaining 18 humanoid robots taking part in a Beijing half-marathon on April 19th leapt, skipped or trundled glitchlessly onto a special track in a…
KeyGene’s new potato variety (centre) has the skin of Pimpernel (left) and the flesh of Bintje (right) Courtesy of KeyGene A new technique for creating fruit and vegetables with the skin of one variety and the flesh of another could make crops more resistant to pests and droughts. A lot of the fruit and vegetables…
Manchester United fans have hit out at the club for what they say are “eye-watering” ticket price increases that are a “kick in the teeth” for supporters. On the day the new Premier League fixture list was announced, United unveiled plans to introduce a new ticket categorization system for the first time. It means prices…
FC Barcelona legend Luis Suarez praised teenage superstar Lamine Yamal ahead of his current employer … More Inter Miami kicking off its Club World Cup campaign. Getty Images FC Barcelona legend Luis Suarez praised teenage superstar Lamine Yamal ahead of his current employer Inter Miami kicking off its Club World Cup campaign. After making his…
Key Findings Check Point Research (CPR) discovered a new campaign conducted by the APT group Stealth Falcon. The attack used a .url file that exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-33053) to execute malware from an actor-controlled WebDAV server. CVE-2025-33053 allows remote code execution through manipulation of the working directory. Following CPR’s responsible disclosure, Microsoft today, June…
