Nvidia's board announced that Jensen Huang - its longtime co-founder, president, and CEO - has resigned after reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with an Nvidia executive who reported to Huang. Following a late Wednesday night meeting, the board accepted Huang's letter of resignation as CEO, president, and […]
Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from the New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair, just days after he admitted to a separate affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, The Wall Street Journal reports. The second alleged affair was with an executive who […]
Hey HN, I’m Eric and I want to share an OSS project that I’ve been building in my free time. Yogurt is a free, MIT licensed desktop app that uses on-device AI models to transcribe, summarize, and chat with your meetings. Here's a quick demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFfbXAwRq98 Similar to Granola, Yogurt runs in the background and does not join your calls. But unlike Granola, Yogurt is open-source, free to use, and private. Your meeting transcripts, call recordings, and summaries never leave your computer. As small OSS models have gotten faster and more powerful, Yogurt seemed lik
Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed earlier this week to have discovered a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. There was just one problem: The site had already been discovered and was published in an academic journal last year. The incident, which sparked criticism among archeologists online, underscores a […]
I had other things to do today, but Alex Karp's pathetic attempt to pivot back to the left gave me no choice but to put them on hold. Last week's elections were a bloodbath for the right, a problem for all the wannabe fash founders who had tied their political fortunes to a "vibe shift" […]
I was certain, until the story of Jensen Huang's second affair hit, that Huang was bulletproof. After all, why wouldn't he be? He's placed himself indispensably at the center of the AI industry and famously had no succession plan at Nvidia. In fact, he's the only CEO Nvidia has ever had. L'état c'est moi. Then […]
The development of brain organoids is advancing at a breakneck pace. Researchers are creating tiny cell clusters in the lab that behave like fragments of the human brain. Whether such organoids could develop intelligence—or even consciousness—remains a matter of debate. Professor Lucia Melloni of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Professor Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France in Paris propose an experimental framework to answer this question. Their article was published in a special issue on brain organoids of the journal Neuron on Nov. 11, 2026.
For adults with preexisting cardiovascular disease, pelacarsen, an antisense oligonucleotide administered monthly, lowers lipoprotein(a) levels but does not reduce the occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2026, held from Nov. 6 to 9 in Chicago.
Inherited cardiomyopathies—diseases of the heart muscle, which cause the heart to have a harder time pumping blood to the rest of the body—are the leading cause of heart failure in young adults. Desmin-related cardiomyopathy (DRM) is one such familial disease that affects approximately 1 in 2,000 individuals worldwide. No disease-specific therapies exist for DRM, with patients receiving only generic heart failure medicines.
Mayo Clinic researchers developed and tested an artificial intelligence (AI) model that used results from a standard 24-hour urine test to predict kidney stone composition more accurately than a conventional urine-based calculation. Using the AI model, researchers correctly predicted kidney stone composition in 73% of patients, compared with 33% using the conventional calculation alone.
Researchers from Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF Group) and MISIS University have figured out why graphite turns into an unexpected form of diamond under high pressure. Instead of the familiar cubic diamond, the first structure to form is metastable lonsdaleite—a hexagonal form of diamond in which carbon atoms are arranged in layers differently than in ordinary diamond.
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have created one of the most detailed maps to date of the cell environment surrounding ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), the most common form of preinvasive, or stage 0, breast cancer. The findings may help explain why some lesions progress to invasive breast cancer and others do not, informing strategies to improve patient risk prediction and develop better targeted approaches for patients at higher risk of invasive disease.
Move by Norway ‘a further tightening’ of current rules Russians ‘have no business’ in Finland, says minister Norway’s government announced that it would prevent Russian and Belarusian professional athletes from coming to Norway to compete, hours after neighbouring Finland announced a similar move. The government said it intended to prevent athletes from these countries coming to Norway as long as the war in Ukraine continues. In a statement, it noted that while Norway already had strict rules for visas for Russian and Belarusian citizens, recent “relaxations introduced by international sports
An alert on Microsoft’s site said it was ‘aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact’ and blamed a server issue Microsoft says it is “aggressively pursuing all pathways” after users reported issues accessing its 365 suite of programs, including Outlook and Teams. Outage website Down Detector showed a spike in Microsoft 365 problems, with nearly 130,000 reports of issues affecting access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams as well as enterprise services such as SharePoint and OneDrive. AI assistant Copilot was also affected. Continue reading...
Prime minister says reset could be a deal ‘like the Brexit people thought they were voting for in 2016’ Andy Burnham has said he believes a “win-win” deal could be done with the EU that could be “more like the Brexit that people thought they were voting for in 2016”. The prime minister was meeting fellow leaders at the European Political Community summit in Dublin, ahead of a keenly anticipated EU-UK summit next week, where he hopes to bring Britain closer to Europe. Continue reading...
Kayla Smith stabbed Chloe Watson Dransfield to death during planned fight over young man An 18-year-old woman who stabbed a teenage girl to death during a planned fight over a young man has pleaded guilty to murder. Chloe Watson Dransfield, 16, was attacked by Kayla Smith, 18, after going to the latter’s home with her boyfriend Blake Dowling in Leeds, West Yorkshire, a court heard. Continue reading...
A familiar face can often remain with us long after its owner leaves the room. For the patient described in a recently published case study, that persistence took an unusually literal form after brain surgery, as features of his cat’s eyes appeared in the faces of people he encountered. Continue Reading Category: Learning & Memory , Brain Health , Body and Mind Tags: Brain , Perception , Stroke , Face Detection
The Utah Utes' rivalry football game with BYU was a triumph for Utah, but it was also a UteQuake extravaganza. No new records were set, but Rice-Eccles Stadium experienced intense seismic shaking during Saturday's game that resulted in a 28–20 victory for the still-undefeated Utah Utes.
Though it may not always feel like it, we are a part of nature, and our health depends on the quality of our environmental surroundings. A new study published in Scientific Reports explores a surprising new connection between climate change, pollution and the negative health impacts marginalized communities disproportionately face.
The number of students in U.S. public schools has dropped dramatically in recent years, with enrollment falling by more than a million students nationwide since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That steep decline has intensified the financial strain on many districts, triggering often contentious public debates about school closures and staff layoffs.
Virtual reality and augmented reality strongly rely on visual information; consequently, they are inaccessible to individuals with visual impairments. To create illusions of tactile feedback or force sensations without physical contact, previous studies have primarily relied on visual manipulations, such as altering the apparent position of objects, with less attention given to the potential of sound alone.
A new study from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) has combined decades of microscope records with cutting-edge environmental DNA (eDNA) data to uncover the drivers of a major shift at the base of the marine food web in UK waters. The work is published in the journal Communications Biology.
Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that the tracking requirements of his Chip Security Act meant to combat smuggling were technically possible, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while its industry group claimed they were “potentially infeasible.” Representative Foster, a Democrat who serves on the Committee on Science,…
Climate change is causing warming in the oceans, which can have significant effects on marine food webs. Rising ocean temperatures can intensify seawater stratification, a process in which ocean water forms layers of different densities that mix less readily. This can reduce the supply of nutrients to surface waters and favor smaller phytoplankton species that are better adapted to low-nutrient conditions. Phytoplankton support zooplankton, which in turn transfer energy to fish and other animals. Changes in phytoplankton communities can therefore lead to cascading effects on marine food webs.
Researchers from Northeastern University's Ocean Genome Legacy Center (OGL) have taken the next step toward deciphering the life cycle and unusual reproductive strategies of a limestone-eating species of shipworm. The results could ultimately usher in new developments in lifesaving medicine.
Fluctuating resource supplies can help some highly invasive plants outcompete native species. But research on how nutrient fluctuations affect plant invasion has largely relied on greenhouse or simplified experiments, leaving it unclear whether the same mechanisms operate under natural conditions.
First, one person stands up, followed by their neighbors, one after another, until a wave sweeps through the stadium. Atoms within a material move in a similar way: rather than remaining completely still in their positions, they vibrate together around their respective positions. In physics, these collective lattice vibrations are known as "phonons." Some of them can interact with light and change its energy in the process.
For the 25th anniversary of Xbox, Microsoft is beginning to make good on its paid "next-gen game preservation" promise. Starting today, you can play 25 different original Xbox games on your Windows PC, as long as you have (or are willing to pay) for digital copies. In July, Microsoft originally launched the idea with just […]
Over the last hour or so, reports have come in from around the world that people can't access their Outlook email, either through the web or apps. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue from its Microsoft 365 Status account, saying that "We've determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is […]
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Kerr admits concern is ‘high’ for Curry’s injury Bassey says Smart guilty of ‘fake toughness’ Kevin Durant scored 20 points, Alperen Sengun and Amen Thompson added 19 and the Houston Rockets snapped Golden State’s eight-game winning streak with a 115-108 victory on Wednesday night. The Warriors played most of the game without Stephen Curry after the star left in the first quarter with right abdominal soreness and didn’t return. He was due to get an MRI on the injury. Continue reading...
Veteran bowler was released by Lancashire ‘I can’t wait to start a new chapter in my career’ James Anderson has signed a one-year contract at Surrey and has set a target of winning the County Championship next summer. The Guardian revealed last week that Surrey had offered Anderson a 12-month deal following his surprise release by Lancashire last month, which the 44-year-old has now signed. Continue reading...
⚽️ Nations League updates from 7.45pm GMT ⚽️ Kane sets cap record | Live scoreboard | Email Scott Pre-match postbag. “With tonight’s record being broken, spare a thought for the holder of a more unwanted record, Emlyn Hughes. He won 62 caps and never got to go to the World Cup or Euros finals” – Roger Kirkby “In the non-Kane-focused-Croatian World of Sport, does Modric’s pine-based residency mean he carried the can for that thing that happened last time? Is he now being shown a Ronaldo-shaped door (the other one)? Do Croatians want this? Is there a ‘Modrić van’ waiting for him every time he is