"Since 2020, there have been at least 33 assassination or abduction attempts in the West...[with a poss.] Iran link". Targets have included Israeli or Jewish civilians, and senior U.S. officials as well as Iranian journalists and others in the diaspora www.reuters.com/investigatio...
There has been a rise in alleged Iran-linked murder and kidnapping plots.
THIS IS HUGE! Scientists at the University of Oxford are developing the world's FIRST ovarian cancer vaccine that could potentially wipe the disease out. OvarianVax teaches the immune system to recognize and attack the earliest stages of ovarian cancer. Letโs talk about that! ๐งช๐งตโฌ๏ธ
When LLMs make errors (โhallucinateโ), their internal states often contain clues about the truthfulness of the output. This paper shows those clues are concentrated in specific tokens. arxiv.org/abs/2410.02707#machinelearning ๐งช +
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The spy world is full of people who try to cash in on their connections and know how when they leave government. Not everyone succeeds. Here Alan Suderman explores the case of Keith Alexander, who failed so badly at the manoeuvre his firm is now controlled by a Russian oligarch-linked businessman.
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An analysis of 15 ancient genomes from individuals dating to AD 1670โ1950 from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) addresses questions about the population history of the island.
EU expected to back tariffs on China-made EVs despite last-gasp German bid to kill them โ SCMP: โBlocking the tariffs requires 15 member states, accounting for 65 per cent of the blocโs total population, to vote against them during the confidential procedure.โ
Berlin expects the move to be approved despite reports Chancellor Olaf Scholz went โballisticโ in efforts to block.