A new study has found that scientists have misinterpreted data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which found that Earth-sized planets are actually larger. Scientists have reanalyzed data from the TESS space telescope, which is searching for planets outside the solar system. It turned out that nearly 200 planets that were considered similar in size to Earth look different. This may affect the search for extraterrestrial life. Although some of these worlds may be large ocean planets. But this does not mean that there are conditions for life to emerge there. The study was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, writes Space. The TESS space telescope detects planets using the transit method. When a planet flies in front of a star, the brightness of the star decreases and the planet creates a shadow. Scientists say that the planet’s shadow is measured and thus an idea of its size can be obtained. Thanks to the light of the star that is reflected from the planet, scientists can conclude about the composition of this world. Scientists have re-analyzed data on planets that have a similar composition to Earth, as well as a size. But it turns out that light from nearby stars can distort the TESS data, based on which scientists draw conclusions about the size of a planet. The study showed that in most cases, planets that were thought to be similar in size to Earth are actually larger than our planet. Astronomers say that, judging by the new data, Earth-like planets are less common in our galaxy than previously thought. Scientists believe that previously thought to be Earth-like worlds may be either gas giants, such as Neptune and Uranus, or large ocean planets or hycians. The latter have a composition similar to Earth, and water is known to be the basis for life. But it is not known for sure whether the oceans covering the entire rocky planet have all the conditions for life to emerge. Scientists say the new discovery could impact the search for potential extraterrestrial life, as the number of habitable planets is smaller than previously thought. On the other hand, scientists are currently debating how common the life-supporting Geekeans are. Now scientists are set to conduct a new study of planets previously thought to be unsuitable for life due to their size. They may also turn out to be a completely different size. The post Are We Alone? Fewer Earth-Sized Planets Than Thought, Says New Research appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Despite a vocal commitment to safety and public good – seemingly more genuine than other top-level players in the AI sector – Anthropic keeps coming under legal fire. Already, the leading AI firm has been caught red-handed pirating thousands of copyrighted books and, in a separate-but-related incident, destroying millions of physical books used to train its AI models. Further court proceedings later this year will determine exact fines for the violation, potentially $100,000 per incident.It matters, not just for the sake of those authors, but because Anthropic is one of the main four or five companies positioned to make decisive plays with national consequences over the next 12 months and beyond. It is tier-one, pushing an upper-echelon valuation, and like too many companies in the space, its palliative verbiage on ethical considerations hasn’t translated into action.Anthropic's LLM was caught faking data and ratting on perceived user 'wrongdoing,' and it even resorted to user blackmail.Led by the Amodei siblings, Dario and Daniela, Anthropic emerged out of the high-profile breakup of OpenAI and has gone on to simultaneously rake in massive heaps of cash based on a rather overweening advertising and PR focus on human safety and “safe AI.” The “public benefit” organization strategy does indeed seem to retain some of the quasi-nonprofit and public-good corporate structuring ethos carried over from Musk’s original OpenAI vision. Nonetheless, when we consider we’re dealing with potentially the most powerful and transformative (destructive?) technologies yet imagined, the company’s early track record leaves a bit to be desired. From safety to blackmailAnthropic strategy has targeted enterprise and B2B, and along the way, it has secured an impressive set of tech-heavy allies and business partners, including Google and Amazon Web Services. The company of “safety, steerability, and interpretability” may have larger designs that include clawing back, or perhaps sharing, some of Palantir’s government market share. In June of this year, its Claude Gov product was launched through the Fed Start program in a process involving both Palantir and Google Public Sector. Anthropic product quality and market penetration are strong. The flagship, Claude, is a set of large language models in direct competition with Grok, Chat-GPT, and Gemini. Comprised of Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku, the whole package is underwritten (in theory) by so-called Constitutional AI, which is essentially an experimental training method to guide software toward explicit rules – as opposed to relying solely on human feedback or implicit reward systems, which have been used by other AI organizations with equally mixed results. Also on offer are Artifacts, a coding assistant; Computer Use, a sort of bridge between Claude models and physical desktops; and AI Fluency Framework, which purports to be an educational initiative for human users of AI. Various sub-variants and custom creations seem to have been built for the aforementioned partnerships, as well. In terms of missteps and the usual upheaval we see in the AI industry, Anthropic’s Constitutional AI, while designed to “embed” ethical guidelines and minimize toxic output, hasn’t managed to screen out the toxic and ethically ambiguous. In a recent episode, when placed in fictional settings for tests, Anthropic's LLM was caught faking data and ratting on perceived user “wrongdoing,” and it even resorted somehow to user blackmail as it scrambled to locate “right and wrong.” RELATED: Tech elites warn ‘reality itself’ may not survive the AI revolution sankai via iStock/Getty ImagesOne wonders if this sort of acting out, as is often seen with children, is somehow related to those very restrictions placed into an LLM to restrict action. If the LLM by nature cannot ever grasp embodied human morality, why pretend otherwise, especially when misbehavior is the result? In and out of courtAnthropic has faced numerous legal challenges for its commandeering of intellectual property and copyrighted material. In 2023, Universal Music and other publishers sued Anthropic for allegedly infringing copyright of song lyrics while training Claude. A March ruling sided with Anthropic. This year saw another lawsuit from Reddit wherein it was alleged Anthropic had “scraped the site upwards of 100,000 times.” In another illustrative episode, the Anthropic legal team was caught out in court when it was determined that a Claude-derived citation deployed to bolster the company’s copyright defense was fake — it was rather the product of so-called “AI hallucination,” a phenomenon whereby an LLM simply invests, fabricates, or alters material for evidently unknown reasons. It’s all, as the kids say, not a good look. With a valuation upwards of $60 billion, why not work out a bulk purchase deal with distributors?Most curious and potentially dangerous (aside from the insistence on ethics as the correct framing for an LLM that lacks human morality or spirituality), is the interwoven nature of the Anthropic funding structure – which suggests mixed economic objectives may quickly override any high-minded claims of human-first product. Amazon ($8 billion), Google ($2 to $3 billion), and a host of other Silicon Valley venture firms whose allocations aren’t entirely transparent are all committed. To its credit, Anthropic has made the humiliating results of its hallucinating AI public and open to comment, which lends credence to its stated principles. Still, some have suggested this rather overly attentive response may be little more than advertising for the company’s favorite virtues. It’s well known that Anthropic is among the more woke-friendly AI companies on the block – a recipe for a quasi-spiritural form of censorship-driven safetyism, where the AI treats the user with kid gloves while the humans in the C-suite run amok.

By doing so, Trump can position himself not only as a corrector of Biden’s failure but as a defender of American honor and global credibility.

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There’s probably no prosecutable federal case, since the statute of limitations has expired.

Until the university decides to take on viewpoint diversity seriously, the faculty’s concerns about external pressure will continue to ring hollow.

There was no reason for the feds to pour good money after bad supporting a preposterous project that doesn’t have any national significance.

Former US President Barack Obama has responded to charges of treason by assuring everyone that he was never an American citizen, therefore his actions to undermine the 2016 election of Donald Trump weren’t technically treason. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, backed by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, has accused former President Barack Obama of treason over what she calls a “conspiracy” to fabricate Russian interference in the 2016 election. Gabbard, wielding a stack of freshly declassified documents thicker than a MAGA rally sign-in sheet, claims Obama and his inner circle “manipulated and withheld” intelligence to undermine Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. Speaking at a press conference that felt more like a campaign rally, Gabbard declared, “This was a treasonous plot to subvert the will of the American people. Obama knew Russia didn’t rig the election, but he pushed the hoax anyway to sabotage President Trump.” The documents, heavily redacted and suspiciously light on specifics, allegedly show that Obama’s team ignored intelligence community findings that Russia lacked the intent or capability to hack the 2016 vote. Instead, Gabbard claims, they leaned on the discredited Steele dossier to fuel a “years-long coup.” Legal scholars, however, are quick to point out that treason, as defined by the U.S. Constitution, requires a citizen to levy war against the United States or provide aid and comfort to its enemies, typically in wartime, and must involve actions directly against fellow Americans. “For Gabbard’s accusations to hold, Obama would need to be an American citizen, which everyone agrees he was not,” said Professor Geraldine Snopes, a constitutional law expert. “If he’s claiming non-citizenship, it’s a legal curveball—treason wouldn’t even apply. It’s like charging a Canadian with jaywalking in Florida.” Trump’s DOJ, never one to shy away from a grudge match, has reportedly opened criminal investigations into former Obama-era officials, including ex-CIA Director John Brennan and ex-FBI Director James Comey, with Obama himself in the crosshairs. “It’s payback time,” crowed one X user, echoing the sentiment of Trump’s base, who see this as vindication after years of “Russia, Russia, Russia” headaches.Democrats, predictably, have dismissed the accusations as a political stunt to distract from Trump’s own controversies, like the lingering Epstein saga. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) called Gabbard’s claims “baseless” and “a rehash of decade-old conspiracies,” pointing to bipartisan Senate reports confirming Russian meddling in 2016. “This is what happens when you let X posts write your intelligence briefings,” Himes quipped. Obama, reached for comment at an undisclosed yoga retreat, reportedly chuckled and said, “Treason? That’s rich. I wasn’t even born in this country, so how could I betray it?” The line, delivered with his signature smirk, has already sparked a fresh wave of birther memes on social media, proving that some controversies never die—they just get new hashtags. As the DOJ sharpens its knives and Gabbard waves her documents like a matador’s cape, the nation braces for another round of political mud-wrestling. The post BREAKING: Obama says he didn’t commit treason in Russiagate because he’s ‘not even an American citizen’ appeared first on Genesius Times.

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