Science & Tech

Keck Spectroscopy Finds Third Dark-Matter–Deficient Galaxy in NGC 1052 Field

Keck spectroscopy suggests NGC 1052-DF9, like DF2 and DF4, shows stellar motions consistent with little dark matter — but distances and measurements remain uncertain.

#astronomy, #darkmatter, #dwarfgalaxies, #ngc1052

Webb Captures Rapid Atmospheric Heating on Eccentric Giant Exoplanet HD 80606 b

Webb's MIRI tracked HD 80606 b heating by about 1,100°F at periastron, revealing rapid temperature and chemical changes; preliminary results shown at AAS.

#exoplanet, #jameswebb, #astronomy, #hd80606b

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: open-weight Mixture-of-Experts LLM with 1 million-token context

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B/55B Mixture‑of‑Experts LLM with a 1 million‑token context window and shared checkpoints, recipes and model weights.

$NVDA, #nvidia, #llm, #openmodels, #ai

InclusionAI, linked to Ant Group, releases Ling and Ring 2.6 models — including 1T checkpoints

InclusionAI, tied to Ant Group, published a technical report and released Ling-2.6 and Ring-2.6 checkpoints on Hugging Face under MIT, including 1T variants.

#ai, #opensource, #antgroup, #largelanguagemodels

Intellia’s one-time CRISPR therapy cuts hereditary angioedema attacks 87% in Phase 3; rolling FDA filing started

Phase 3 trial of Intellia's one-time in‑vivo CRISPR therapy lonvo‑z cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%; company began rolling FDA filing.

$NTLA, #crispr, #geneediting, #biotech, #hereditaryangioedema, #intellia

U.S., European authorities dismantle AudiA6 crypto mixer; two arrested in Batumi, Georgia

Authorities say they dismantled AudiA6, a crypto mixer used to launder about 10,333 BTC; two alleged administrators arrested in Batumi, Georgia and face extradition.

#crypto, #ransomware, #moneylaundering, #europol

Possible detection of cold molecular gas in REBELS-25, 700 million years after the Big Bang

Astronomers report a possible low-J CO detection in galaxy REBELS-25 at z=7.31, implying a huge cold molecular gas reservoir 700 million years after the Big Bang.

#astronomy, #galaxies, #cosmology, #moleculargas

Valve reiterates Steam Frame will ship “this summer” and publishes standalone compatibility standards

Valve reiterates Steam Frame's summer launch window and publishes detailed standalone Verified standards for developers, including minimum framerates.

#valve, #steamframe, #vr, #gaming

EFF Says News‑USA Today Published Fabricated EFF Quotes and Names in Six Articles

Electronic Frontier Foundation says News‑USA Today attributed quotes to nonexistent EFF staff in six articles from April–June and hasn’t corrected them.

#eff, #newsusatoday, #fakenames, #mediaethics, #journalism

China Team Open-Sources Embodied-R1.5, Claims SOTA on Many Embodied‑AI Benchmarks

A Tianjin University-led team open-sources Embodied-R1.5, an 8B embodied-AI model claiming SOTA on many benchmarks; results and parameter counts not independently verified.

#embodied-ai, #robotics, #artificial-intelligence, #arxiv

Preprint describes three-particle bosonic Pfaffian state in ultracold rubidium atoms

A June 10 arXiv preprint reports a minimal three‑particle bosonic Pfaffian state in ultracold 87Rb — an early step toward non‑Abelian topological matter.

#physics, #quantum, #ultracold, #pfaffian

UK to spend nearly £30m to expand AI diagnostics in the NHS; £20m to roll out chest X‑ray tools to trusts by 2029

UK to invest almost £30m to expand AI-assisted diagnostics in the NHS, including £20m to roll out AI chest X-ray tools to all English trusts by 2029.

#nhs, #ai, #healthcare, #lungcancer

Google unveils DiffusionGemma — experimental diffusion model for faster local text generation

Google unveiled DiffusionGemma, a 26B experimental diffusion Mixture-of-Experts text model that aims for up to 4x faster GPU generation for speed-critical local apps.

$GOOGL, #google, #ai, #diffusionmodels, #llm

Researchers report agentic LLMs outperformed expert biologists and produced robot-assembled DNA in lab tests

Researchers report agentic LLMs outperformed expert biologists on biosecurity tasks and that model-written code ran an OpenTrons robot to assemble DNA.

#ai, #biosecurity, #llm, #syntheticbiology

Largest Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak on Record Reaches 534 Confirmed Cases, Spreads to Uganda

The Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak has reached 534 confirmed cases across DRC and Uganda, straining responders where no licensed vaccines or treatments exist.

#ebola, #drc, #uganda, #publichealth, #outbreak