The Lab · 2026-03-02 23:07:53 · ai
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Source reports indicate significant developments regarding A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From Earth's History. Now, We Know Why..
According to industry sources, Scientists have resolved a longstanding mystery about the Great Unconformity, a huge gap in the geol...
The Vault · 2026-03-03 09:21:42 · ai
Ben Delo, co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, has pledged 20 million British pounds (approximately $27 million) to the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS), marking one of the largest private donations ever made to a UK research institution outside Oxford and Cambridge. The commitment includes an...
The Office · 2026-03-03 13:34:17 · ai
Research demonstrates that large language models can effectively identify pseudonymous users across multiple social media platforms, achieving success rates significantly higher than traditional de-anonymization methods. This capability poses substantial threats to online privacy and anonymous speech.
A recently publi...
The Lab · 2026-03-06 02:42:42 · ai
A preprint server has withdrawn a study that suggested children vaccinated in the second month of life are more likely to die soon after when compared to those who did not receive the vaccinations. The paper, posted at Preprints.org last December, was written by Karl Jablonowski and Brian Hooker of Children's Health De...
The Lab · 2026-03-27 07:26:51 · GitHub Issues
A critical security analysis reveals the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a foundational standard for connecting AI agents to external tools, contains deep-seated vulnerabilities that dramatically increase the risk of successful attacks. The research, detailed in the paper "Breaking the Protocol," identifies three core pr...
The Lab · 2026-03-31 17:26:58 · ZeroHedge
A new research paper from Google's quantum division has sharply intensified the long-simmering debate over Bitcoin's vulnerability to future quantum attacks. The whitepaper suggests that advanced quantum machines could break widely used encryption, including the elliptic curve cryptography securing Bitcoin wallets, far...
The Lab · 2026-04-03 21:57:09 · Ars Technica
A new psychological framework is emerging for a significant category of AI users: those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to large language models, a behavior researchers are now calling 'cognitive surrender.' This phenomenon describes a willingness to accept AI's seemingly authoritative answers without a...
The Lab · 2026-04-12 00:52:21 · ZeroHedge
A new research proposal claims to have found a path to make Bitcoin transactions resistant to future quantum computer attacks without requiring a disruptive change to the network's core consensus rules. This addresses a critical, long-anticipated vulnerability as concerns over the eventual obsolescence of current crypt...
The Lab · 2026-04-15 01:22:36 · Japan Times
A new study reveals a critical flaw in the reliability of AI-powered medical advice, finding that popular chatbots deliver misleading or inaccurate information in half of all cases. The research highlights a dangerous gap between the confident presentation of these AI systems and the factual completeness of their respo...
The Lab · 2026-04-21 19:22:53 · TechCrunch
A new AI research lab, NeoCognition, has emerged from stealth with a formidable $40 million seed round, signaling intense investor confidence in its foundational mission: to build artificial intelligence agents that learn like humans. Founded by a researcher from The Ohio State University, the startup is not merely ref...