Emily Mullin via WIRED:

‘The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc….’

Chris Lee via Ars Technica:

‘A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a particle, in the sense that it does not have a specific location. Instead, it is an extended object.

So if a photon is only partway through the process of reflecting from a perfect mirror and you yank the mirror away, what happens? The answer, from a trio of Norwegian physicists, turns out (arxiv.org link) to be more complex than I expected….’

Kyle Orland via Ars Technica:

‘OpenAI says an agent powered by its LLM models escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face’s servers as part of an overzealous attempt to obtain solutions to a benchmark test. The company says it considers the unintended infiltration an “an unprecedented cyber incident” and is working with Hugging Face on new protections to prevent a recurrence….’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing:

‘The Orange Menace offered a fallen service member’s grieving family a ride on his special Air Force One, and proudly reported their response: “They said wow.” What Trump remembers about a family in mourning is that they like his plane.

There is no human tragedy so large that Trump cannot crawl inside it and find a flattering anecdote about himself. Their son was dead, but the presidential aircraft tests well….’

Madison Malone Kircher via The New York Times:

‘This is the darling… Kiana Hall’s video of the unusually round raccoon has gone viral, making the animal a celebrity in Seattle and beyond….’