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Engineers Can Build a Site to Secure Nuclear Waste for 100,000 Years. Who Will Live Nearby?
The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely populated and lushly forested island in the Baltic Sea three hours north of Helsinki. Onkalo — the name means “cavity” or “cave” in Finnish — is among the most advanced facilities of its kind, designed for an unprecedented…
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Woman’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Successfully Treated by Unique Brain Implant
The brain of 34-year-old Amber Pearson contains a one-of-a-kind implant. The Oregon resident is the first person to have a deep brain stimulation device that manages both her epileptic seizures and her obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms. Her subsequent improvement has inspired scientists to conduct larger studies of the technology. Pearson’s story was first detailed in…
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An Influential AI Dataset Contains Thousands of Suspected Child Abuse Images
An influential machine learning dataset—the likes of which has been used to train numerous popular image-generation applications—includes thousands of suspected images of child sexual abuse, a new academic report reveals. The report, put together by Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, says that LAION-5B, a massive tranche of visual media, includes a significant number of illegal abuse…
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ChatGPT Is Still Bleeding Users
ChatGPT’s explosion in popularity may have been short-lived as the number of website visits dropped for the third consecutive month, according to data released by Similarweb on Thursday. OpenAI’s ChatGPT took off in November of last year, surpassing 100 million users but started its decline in March, dropping from 8.7 minutes users spent on the…