NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 2 (game #783)
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Birmingham doctor in court accused of sex assaults on patients
A doctor has appeared in court accused of more than 40 counts of sexual assault against hospital patients including children. The charges faced by Nathaniel Spencer on Tuesday relate to 38 patients at Royal Stoke University Hospital and Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, between 2017 and 2021. The 38-year-old of Great Hampden Street, Birmingham, appeared at…
The UK government is backing AI scientists that can run their own experiments
“There are better uses for a PhD student than waiting around in a lab until 3am to make sure an experiment is run to the end,” says Ant Rowstron, ARIA’s chief technology officer. ARIA picked 12 projects to fund from the 245 proposals, doubling the amount of funding it had intended to allocate because of…
Inside Health – Where does air pollution go inside our body?
Available for over a year James Gallagher stands by four lanes of traffic and inhales exhaust fumes all to see if he can see air pollution in his body. He looks at an intriguing finding that an mRNA vaccine might benefit people being treated with immunotherapy for some cancers and could we be on the…
Why women are taking their anger out in rage rooms
Getty Images “There was definitely a moment of discomfort at the start,” says Deena, but she says her visit to a so-called rage room felt very different to what she’d expected. She didn’t feel chaotic or aggressive smashing things up, but instead “surprisingly controlled and a lot more intentional”. “Once I settled into it, it…
China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own
Jade Gu met her boyfriend online. Gu, who’s 26 and studies art theory in Beijing, was playing on her phone when she saw Charlie. She was deep in an otome game, a romance-driven video game where women are the protagonists. Charlie was a character. Some otome players date multiple men simultaneously, but Gu fell for…
Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
But language models can only do so much, and what robots need most urgently is a new kind of model that understands the physical world the way an LLM understands the written word. And to build that model, engineers need way more data. While walking around BAAI, I see scores of workers behind desks. They’re…
Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All
When DeepSeek burst onto the global stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the large language model was just one of the thousands of generative AI tools that have been released in China since 2023—and there’s a public archive of every single one of them. The country’s top internet regulator,…
Gastric sleeve surgery was 'life-changing'
Steph Hoy dropped from 25 stone to eight stone after surgery. Source link
VoidLink: Evidence That the Era of Advanced AI-Generated Malware Has Begun
Key Points Check Point Research (CPR) believes a new era of AI-generated malware has begun. VoidLink stands as the first evidently documented case of this era, as a truly advanced malware framework authored almost entirely by artificial intelligence, likely under the direction of a single individual. Until now, solid evidence of AI-generated malware has primarily…
Add Punycode to your Threat Hunting Routine
IDNs or “International Domain Names” have been with us for a while now (see RFC3490[1]). They are (ab)used in many attack scenarios because.. it works! Who can immediately spot the difference between: https://youtube.com/ And: https://youtube.com/ The magic is to replace classic characters by others that look almost the same. In the example above, the…
