Author: Vidya Saras

I’ve covered Google’s AI Overviews since its messy rollout last year, when screenshots of absurdly wrong answers started popping up at the top of search results and going viral on social media. Still, when I first saw images of AI Overviews confidently saying that it’s still 2024 in Reddit posts today, I thought they might be altered screenshots. I mean, over a billion Google users currently see the AI-generated results every month. Surely, such an obvious error would have been caught and patched by now?I was wrong. Repeating the prompt “is it 2025” verbatim three times gave me three different…

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The fight might between the president and the conservative old guard might just be the biggest legal development of Trump’s second term. Ad Policy Leonard Leo, former head of the Federalist Society, and Donald Trump.(Nordin Catic / Getty Images for The Cambridge Union; Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) One of the keys to Donald Trump’s enduring popularity with the worst people this country has to offer is that he often says mean things about the people his supporters hate. Whether Trump does anything to those people, and whether his actions actually solve the problems his supporters have with those people,…

Modern software engineering faces growing challenges in accurately retrieving and understanding code across diverse programming languages and large-scale codebases. Existing embedding models often struggle to capture the deep semantics of code, resulting in poor performance in tasks such as code search, RAG, and semantic analysis. These limitations hinder developers’ ability to efficiently locate relevant code snippets, reuse components, and manage large projects effectively. As software systems grow increasingly complex, there is a pressing need for more effective, language-agnostic representations of code that can power reliable and high-quality retrieval and reasoning across a wide range of development tasks.  Mistral AI has…

The collaboration validates specific connections, such as confirming that CrowdStrike’s Vanguard Panda and Microsoft’s Volt Typhoon both represent the same China-nexus threat group. Similarly, Secret Blizzard and Venomous Bear have been identified as aliases for a known Russian state-affiliated actor. “This effort is not about creating a single naming standard,” Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president at Microsoft Security, said in the statement. “Rather, it’s meant to help our customers and the broader security community align intelligence more easily, respond faster, and stay ahead of threat actors.” “While advisory names could have effectively been used for correlations, the lack of standard…

COVID vaccine access will be more limited for some groups, after federal health officials changed recommendations. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Loryn Competti was watching the news with her husband at their home in Cincinnati when she heard about the new federal policy about who should get a COVID vaccine. “I started crying,” says Competti. “I was like, ‘Am I really not going to be able to get this vaccine? Why? Why?’ That’s absolutely terrifying.” Competti, 30, is about five months pregnant, which means she’s at high risk for serious complications from COVID. But the…

You’ve probably seen this kind of scroll effect before, even if it doesn’t have a name yet. (Honestly, we need a dictionary for all these weird and wonderful web interactions. If you’ve got a talent for naming things…do it. Seriously. The internet is waiting.) Imagine a grid of images. As you scroll, the columns don’t move uniformly but instead, the center columns react faster, while those on the edges trail behind slightly. It feels soft, elastic, and physical, almost like scrolling with weight, or elasticity. You can see this amazing effect on sites like yzavoku.com (and I’m sure there’s a…

Each of NASA’s four major science divisions is facing a steep cut to its budget, with some reaching historical lows. Values are adjusted for inflation.The Planetary Society This past Friday, May 30th, the White House released its proposed 2026 budget for NASA, the detailed version of a “skinny budget” published earlier this month. For many in the space science community, it confirmed their worst fears. “Were we prepared? A little bit,” says planetary scientist Paul Byrne (Washington University in St. Louis). “But when you actually see the visceral specifics of it, it’s a whole new level of horror.” The document,…

Central Connecticut in a team huddle at the Auburn Regional (Photo by Brian Westerholt/Four Seam Images) https://cdn.d1baseball.com/uploads/2025/06/02234939/CCSUByBrianWesterholt.jpg 500 1000 Joe Healy https://cdn.d1baseball.com/uploads/2024/11/21163231/d1-logo.svg Joe Healy2025-06-03 09:36:002025-06-02 23:55:38Central Connecticut State continues to succeed despite headwinds

Michael BristowAsia-Pacific editorGetty ImagesFormer baseball player Shigeo Nagashima, who was once one of Japan’s most famous sports stars, has died aged 89.He died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo, according to a statement released by his former team the Yomiuri Giants.Nicknamed Mr Giants, Nagashima won nine straight titles with the team in the 1960s and 70s, playing in 2,186 games and hitting 444 home runs.Commenting on his death, a government spokesman said Nagashima had given society “bright dreams and hopes”.His ability – and charm – made him popular, at a time of increasing economic prosperity and growing confidence in…