An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI
A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses
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Jesus God NoDeets:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-state-dept-finalizing-plan
Well, there went my day....
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Piloting planes is getting a lot more interesting“Terrain ahead. Pull up!”
It’s a command that should only be heard in a disaster movie or flight simulator. But pilots and aviation experts say such warnings have been increasingly sparking alarm in cockpits as bogus signals from global positioning satellites hit commercial flights.
The disruption of GPS signals has become endemic in conflict zones, including the region now impacted by the Iran war, affecting planes on routes that skirt hot spots for military activity in the Middle East, Baltic Sea and Black Sea. In cases of GPS interference, an airplane’s ground proximity warning system may lock onto a false signal, triggering unsettling warnings even though the plane is flying at a safe altitude.
“I have fellow pilots that encounter this on a regular basis. That’s the true danger. It’s becoming normalized,” said Captain Ron Hay, president of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations, which represents over 160,000 pilots in more than 70 countries. Hay, who works for Delta Air Lines, said he feared that pilots might lose trust in critical safety systems as they become desensitized to these warnings.
In addition to harrowing phantom pull up commands, flights encountering these spoofed signals experience abnormal system responses such as map shifts, where the aircraft location on the cockpit screen moves miles from the actual flight path, or when a plane is on the runway ready for takeoff, systems may erroneously suggest it’s elsewhere, according to a 2026 resource guide from the US Federal Aviation Administration.
Around 900 flights each day are affected by GPS interference, according to Benoit Figuet, a research associate at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and founder of SkAI Data Services, which since 2024 has tracked such incidents on its site GPSWise.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/science/gps-jamming-plane-navigation-problems
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I may have to go back to Home Depot@daniel knows me well.
I caved and bought two different kinds. Will report on what happens....
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Aldi/TJs historyHaven't been to Mariano's (Kroger-owned) for months. I know it's a Tuesday morning, but the place was deserted. There was a time when the place was packed every day of the week.
I did notice that they've dropped the prices on some items. Doesn't seem to be getting people back in the store.
The grocery business in Chicago is brutal.
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Aldi/TJs historyAnything labeled “Burrman’s” (condiments and sauces) is usually terrible
My experience also.
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UAE leaving OPEC on May 1The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it is quitting the Opec and Opec+ groups of major oil producing nations after nearly 60 years.
The UAE said the decision reflected its "long-term strategic and economic vision and evolving energy profile".
The decision is seen as a blow to the cartel with one analyst describing the exit as "the beginning of the end of Opec".
The Gulf state's energy minister said being a country with no obligation under the groups would provide more flexibility.
The UAE joined Opec in 1967 and its departure will leave the oil cartel with 11 members.
Saul Kavonic, head of energy research at MST Financial, said it was "the beginning of the end of Opec".
"With the UAE leaving, Opec loses about 15% of its capacity and one of its most compliant members."
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PSA: cellphone battery life -
PSA: cellphone battery lifeThen what? Standardize and mandate the replaceable batteries’ form factor and interface so one battery can power every phones?
Yup, should be standardized. We did that with regular batteries (AAA, AA, C, D, etc) so that if you bought an old fashioned flashlight, for instance, you could buy any manufacturer's D battery.
Then there are the rechargeable lithium batteries in battery-powered yard tools. The shape of the external battery case is specific to the manufacturer, which means I can't use my EGO lawn mower battery in my Kobalt leaf blower.
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Move over, Nike and AdidasChina's economy was just starting to open up in the late 1980s when a determined high school dropout made his way to Beijing with 600 pairs of shoes.
Ding Shizhong had them made in a relative's factory and now he was going to sell them. The money he earned paid for his first workshop where he began making footwear for other companies.
The 17-year-old was one of China's many newly minted entrepreneurs as capitalism took off under the watchful eye of its Communist Party rulers.
But, as it turns out, Ding had much bigger plans.
His business has since grown into a sportswear powerhouse called Anta, which has been building a stable of international brands, including Arc'teryx and Salomon. Most recently it bought a stake in Puma.
Now it is trying to take on the likes of Nike and Adidas, a goal that Ding spelled out in 2005: "We don't want to be the Nike of China, but the Anta of the world."
Anta may not be a household name in the West yet, but it has more than 10,000 shops in China and sponsors top athletes like freestyle skier Eileen Gu.
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AI gone wildClaude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
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Claude Desktop seems to be a bit sneakyWhile looking into another matter, the researcher discovered a Native Messaging host manifest on his Mac that he did not knowingly install. On Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, extensions can exchange messages with native applications if they register a native messaging host that can communicate with the extension.
By testing on a clean machine, Hanff discovered that Installing Claude Desktop for macOS drops a Native Messaging host manifest into multiple Chromium profiles (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Chromium), even including for browsers that are not actually installed yet.
The Native Messaging host manifest tells a Chromium‑based browser which local executable to invoke when an extension calls a native host, and those hosts run outside the browser sandbox with current users permissions. Hanff therefore describes this as a “backdoor.” The manifest pre‑authorizes three Chrome extension IDs, so any extension with those IDs can call the helper via connectNative, giving it access to browser automation features.
Another objection is that Claude makes simple deletion futile since the manifest will be recreated the next time the user launches Claude Desktop.
It’s important here to point out that his article is about Claude Desktop, the Electron-based macOS application with bundle identifier com.anthropic.claudefordesktop, distributed as Claude.app. It is not about Claude Code, Anthropic’s command line developer tool. Claude Code is autonomous (“agentic”), allowing you to hand over a task, and it handles the planning and execution until done. So, for Claude Code, it would absolutely make sense to enable communication with browsers, provided they are present on the target system.
So, we have an application that writes into other apps’ profile/support directories (the browsers’ configuration area) and can act as the user, with capabilities like using the logged‑in browser session, DOM inspection, data extraction, form filling, and session recording. This expands the attack surface of every machine this manifest is dropped on, without asking for consent.
Anthropic’s own launch blog on “Claude for Chrome,” which discusses Anthropic’s internal red‑team experiments, explicitly mentions prompt injection as a key risk and reports attack success rates of 23.6% (no mitigations) and 11.2% (with mitigations). Hanff cites this to argue that a pre‑positioned bridge is a non‑trivial risk.
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How did the orangutan cross the road?With a rope bridge, of course.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sumatra-orangutan-canopy-bridge-cross-road-indonesia-world-first/
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Aldi/TJs historyWhat @mik said. We usually snag one of their standing rib roasts during the holidays. Choice, not prime, but good enough for us.
Got some really good raspberry sorbet and mango sorbet at Aldi recently.
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How to keep a math geek busy30,000+ math problems...
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Merz' take on IranBut, but....I thought we had obliterated them...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday said Iran's leadership is in the process of "humiliating" the United States in the ongoing conflict.
Merz said Washington appeared to lack a clear strategy and questioned what kind of exit the US might pursue.
"The Iranians are clearly stronger than expected and the Americans clearly have no truly convincing strategy in the negotiations either," Merz said during a school visit in Marsberg, a town in his home region of Sauerland.
"The problem with conflicts like this is always: you don't just have to get in, you have to get out again. We saw that very painfully in Afghanistan for 20 years. We saw it in Iraq."
"At the moment, I do not see what strategic exit the Americans will choose, especially since the Iranians are clearly negotiating very skillfully — or very skillfully not negotiating," he said.
Merz added that "an entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, particularly by the so-called Revolutionary Guards."
https://www.dw.com/en/merz-says-us-humiliated-lacks-strategy-in-iran-conflict/a-76952959
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Roger Bannister gives a thumbs upSomeone finished a marathon in under 2 hours.
Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in the marathon.
In a huge moment in sports history, Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds on Sunday.
The second-place finisher, Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia, also dipped under 2 hours by crossing the line in 1:59:41 in his first marathon, while Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda broke the previous world-record time -- set by Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum in Chicago in 2023 -- by seven seconds in finishing in 2:00:28.
