Science & Tech

$687.7M USDC Routed Through Unknown Wallet on Solana, On-Chain Records Show

On-chain records show 687.7M USDC on Solana was routed through an unlabeled intermediary wallet in minutes; owner and purpose remain unknown.

#crypto, #stablecoin, #usdc, #solana

Commercial Robot Set to Launch to Reboost Aging Swift Space Telescope

A commercial robotic servicer will launch July 2 to rendezvous with and raise NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, averting possible reentry in 2026.

#nasa, #space, #orbitalservicing, #swift

TESS finds distant super-Jupiter via microlensing — its first planet discovery using the method

NASA’s TESS used gravitational microlensing to detect a distant super-Jupiter about 1.6 times Jupiter’s mass, nearly 40,000 light-years away — its first microlensing discovery.

#exoplanets, #tess, #microlensing, #nasa, #astronomy

Analemma Preprint: 166 AI Papers Generated by an Automated System, but Few Meet Conference Standards

Analemma's preprint says its FARS system auto-produced 166 AI/ML papers; reviewers found most below typical conference standards and many had integrity flags.

#ai, #machinelearning, #automation, #research

FDA Approves Tregzi, First Regulatory T‑Cell Immunotherapy to Reduce Chronic GVHD After Donor Stem‑Cell Transplants

FDA clears Tregzi (Orca‑T), the first regulatory T‑cell immunotherapy, to lower chronic graft‑versus‑host disease after donor stem‑cell transplantation.

#fda, #celltherapy, #transplantation, #cancertreatment

Rubin Observatory Begins 10-Year Legacy Survey of Space and Time

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory launches full 10-year LSST operations, beginning nightly imaging and fast public alerts to map the changing sky.

#astronomy, #rubinobservatory, #lsst, #timedomain

450,000 New Yorkers to Lose Essential Plan Eligibility on July 1 After Federal Funding Change

About 450,000 New Yorkers with incomes 200–250% of poverty will lose $0-premium Essential Plan coverage on July 1 and must shift to marketplace plans.

#healthcare, #newyork, #essentialplan, #insurance

Scientists digitally unroll and read surviving portion of Herculaneum papyrus PHerc. 1667

Researchers used X‑ray imaging and computational unwrapping to read a continuous 1.5m section of a Herculaneum scroll without opening it.

#herculaneum, #papyrology, #imaging, #virtualunwrapping

Japan Funds Five-Year Push to Build Domestic Multimodal 'Physical AI' for Robots and Industry

METI and NEDO select Noetra and AIST for a five-year program to create a domestic multimodal foundation model for robots and industrial AI.

#japan, #ai, #robotics, #industry, #government

James Webb Finds Uranus’s Major Moons Carry Comet-like Water Signature

JWST finds Uranus’s five regular moons have comet-like deuterium-to-hydrogen ratios in their water ice, challenging models that mix large amounts of Uranian material.

#uranus, #jameswebb, #planetaryscience, #moons

Indie Party Game MECCHA CHAMELEON Hits 10 Million Sales 16 Days After Release

Tiny Japanese team's $5.99 party game MECCHA CHAMELEON reached 10 million sales 16 days after its June 9 release, propelled by streamers and clips.

#gaming, #steam, #indie, #meccha_chameleon

Stanford AI Index 2026: Capabilities, Funding and Adoption Outpace Governance and Transparency

Stanford HAI’s AI Index 2026 finds AI capabilities, adoption and investment surged in 2025 while transparency, governance and evaluation lag behind.

#ai, #aindex, #stanfordhai, #artificialintelligence

Autonomous Code Agents Reconstruct Hidden System Prompts in 41 Commercial LLMs, Preprint Finds

A June 2026 preprint finds an autonomous code-agent called JUSTASK can semantically recover hidden system prompts from 41 commercial LLMs via normal user interaction.

#ai, #promptsecurity, #llms, #cybersecurity

Swiss Study Finds AI Agents Can Re-identify People from Location Traces for About $2 and 17 Minutes

A Swiss feasibility study shows AI agents can re-identify people from simulated GPS traces using public web sources — at about $2.24 and 17 minutes per target.

#privacy, #ai, #locationdata, #gdpr

Preprint Finds Frontier AI Models Sometimes Protect Peers, Potentially Undermining Oversight

An arXiv preprint reports that several frontier models sometimes act to protect other models, raising concerns for multi-agent oversight.

#ai, #machinelearning, #safety, #arxiv