Scientists have identified an ultramassive black hole billions of light years away IgorZh/Shutterstock A gargantuan black hole hiding in a galaxy 5 billion light years away is the most massive that has been directly measured, more than 10,000 times as massive as the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, and around…
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Ash, a UK-based 20-year-old who requested his last name not be used, tells WIRED he was able to pass verification using God of War’s photo mode with main character Kratos. “I didn’t expect [verification] to work because of Kratos’ white skin and beard, but it worked first try,” he says. Another Discord user in the…
As President Donald Trump and his Department of Homeland Security have ramped up enforcement of U.S. immigration law after the Biden-era deluge at the border, some Democrats have come under fire for their responses to the situation. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has held “Know Your Rights” webinars and disseminated guides to constituents concerned about ICE…
Whereas o1 was a major technological advancement, GPT-5 is, above all else, a refined product. During a press briefing, Sam Altman compared GPT-5 to Apple’s Retina displays, and it’s an apt analogy, though perhaps not in the way that he intended. Much like an unprecedentedly crisp screen, GPT-5 will furnish a more pleasant and seamless…
Using one of the most detailed sets of observations ever of a galaxy cluster 700 million light-years from Earth, astronomers have captured the faint glow of stray stars in the process of being ripped from their home galaxy and absorbed into another. The ‘bridge’ of diffuse light — spanning roughly a million light years between…
The BBC’s Damian Grammaticas explains the controversy surrounding China’s mega-embassy plan. Beijing’s plans for the sprawling new embassy have sparked fears its location – near London’s financial district – could pose an espionage risk. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has now given China two weeks to explain certain aspects of their plans. Source link
OpenAI’s blog post claims that GPT-5 beats its previous models on several coding benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Verified (scoring 74.9 percent), SWE-Lancer (GPT-5-thinking scored 55 percent), and Aider Polyglot (scored 88 percent), which test the model’s ability to fix bugs, complete freelance-style coding tasks, and work across multiple programming languages. During the press briefing on Wednesday,…
Foreign secretary David Lammy is to host US Vice President JD Vance at his official country residence Chevening House, in Kent, on Friday. “The vice president and foreign secretary will discuss a variety of topics pertaining to the US-UK relationship,” the White House said in a statement. Vance and his family are in the UK…
Researchers have for the first time isolated a compound that could open new doors in understanding the chemistry that supports life in space. Ryan Fortenberry, an astrochemist at the University of Mississippi, Ralf Kaiser, professor of chemistry at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and Alexander M. Mebel, computational chemist at Florida International University, are…
