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Sam Altman calls it "quite terrible" that PCs hold scarce RAM

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"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer, and being used maybe 5% of the time."

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Protein that restores memory in old flies may help explain age-related memory loss

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The Funes protein, named after a Borges character who forgets nothing, belongs to a group called chaperones that help proteins fold into their shape.

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Opening narrowed neck arteries does not improve thinking, trial finds

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The trial enrolled 291 patients with carotid artery narrowing of at least 70% and no symptoms. It compared stenting or surgery with medication alone.

Diet and exercise put young adults' type 2 diabetes into remission in trial

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After 24 weeks, 27 of 50 people on the program were in remission, against two of 46 receiving standard care.

Scientists describe a turkey-sized dinosaur that ate fruit

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Named Infernogallus jamesi, or "hell chicken", it lived about 66 million years ago and was about 1.5 metres long. Its fossils were found in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and North Dakota.

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Virgin Galactic's new Delta-class space plane flies for the first time

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The ship, named Apeiron, flew this week beneath its carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, from Mesa, Arizona, to Spaceport America in New Mexico.

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WordPress flaw draws nearly 63,000 attack attempts in 24 hours

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Security firm Wordfence said it blocked 62,969 attacks aimed at the flaw over 24 hours. Two of the largest sources repeatedly probed small groups of sites for about 14.5 hours.

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US agency says hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab flaw

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the GitLab flaw to its list of exploited vulnerabilities. Rated 10.0 out of 10, it lets an unauthenticated attacker run code on a GitLab server through a crafted CI/CD configuration.