Abstract page for arXiv paper 2502.17575: On the quantum mechanics of entropic forces

A tracing of the history of GPT-1 and its predecessors.

2. Implementation Language doesn’t matter
3. If you do not have a visualization for a problem, you will never solve it

Helmut Marko has confirmed that Max Verstappen's "wishes" were a key part of Red Bull's emergency meeting following a poor start to F1 2025.

Elon Musk personally reached out to the CEO of Reddit to complain about content on the platform.

A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention. According to multiple independent Russian media outlets and the scientist’s friends, she now faces possible deportation to Russia, where she could be subject to political persecution over her anti-war stance.

A Trump Cabinet secretary violated the law when he told TV viewers this week to buy Tesla stock, but it's not clear that anything will be done about it.

The Benghazi Committee isn't investigating a scandal. The Benghazi Committee is the scandal.

The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.

Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.

The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly.

The administration has moved to fire nearly 20,000 agency employees. The IRS has dropped investigations of high-value corporations and taxpayers because it’s had to triage resources to keep internal systems operating. IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue.

President Donald Trump's frequent trips to Mar-a-Lago are concerning local officials, who say they've had to spend taxpayer money on his protection

democracies don’t collapse overnight—they erode step by step. Institutions are undermined, dissent is crushed, elections are rigged, and economic power is concentrated in the hands of a corrupt elite. Once these three pillars—governance, civil liberties, and economic fairness—are dismantled, reversing the slide into tyranny becomes increasingly difficult.

While Democrats play by the old rules, Republicans have fully abandoned them, and, so far, they’ve suffered no consequence whatever for attacking our democracy.

The senior European official added that Europe was extremely reluctant to agree to Russia’s demand to block deliveries of weapons to Ukraine by its allies during any truce. That outcome would risk a situation where Russia was able to rearm during a cessation of hostilities, while Ukraine was prevented from doing so, the official said.

Putin has said he supports the US proposal for a pause to the conflict in principle but insists that a number of conditions need to be met before Russia can agree to halt its invasion. The Russian leader will probably agree to a truce, though he wants to make sure his terms are included first, Bloomberg reported on March 12.

The Trump administration has effectively already conceded Russian demands to keep control of occupied Ukrainian territory and for Kyiv to abandon its ambition to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. That has fueled European concerns that any deal the US president strikes with Putin will leave Ukraine weakened and vulnerable to Russia in the future.

The US is also likely to want Ukraine to accept effective neutral status and some limits on its army and weapons, in line with Russian demands, said Cliff Kupchan, a former senior State Department official who’s chairman of the New York-based Eurasia Group.

As with all hypotheses, it's not perfect. For example, if there's enough energy to liquefy the moon, there's enough energy to liquefy Earth's surface. But there is no evidence for large-scale magma seas in Earth's history. Also, the moon does have some volatile elements, like water, trapped in rock — but a giant-impact, giant-energy event should have gotten rid of those.

The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication

i think what we are seeing is unbridled psychopathy waging war against the majority of pro-social people. that is what fascism really is.

" a thief belives that everybody steals," and so it goes that a psychopath believes that everybody else only does anything for selfish motives, or at least they will say as much as means to divide and conquer

if humanity is to survive, we have to find a way to regulate these anti-social disorders out of positions of influence and power

"I think what we are seeing is unbridled psychopathy..."

I've often had basically this EXACT thought! That fascism, and so many of societies ailments, are so clearly rooted deep shades of the Antisocial Personality Disorder spectrum playing out at a social level. And that if we had the will to spend even a little bit of time fairly early in school educating our youth about it, the risks, the harms, the benefits to the individual and society as a whole of leaning away from such base tendencies, society might look very different for a great many people.

NASA's Spitzer Space telescope shows a collection of gas and dust over 500 light-years across, the Perseus Molecular Cloud, hosts an abundance of young stars.

Astronomers believe about one or two supernovae—or possibly at a rate even lower than that—occur each century in galaxies like the Milky Way, but the good news is there are only two nearby stars which could go supernova within the next million years or so: Antares and Betelgeuse.

However, both of these are more than 500 light-years away from us and computer simulations have previously suggested a supernova at that distance from Earth likely wouldn't affect our planet.

As Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare to come home after their unexpected nine-month ISS stay, here is what they may experience

Dark matter continues to confound us, so far defying every attempt to decipher it.