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OpenAI announced today that it is working on a framework that will train artificial intelligence models to acknowledge when they’ve engaged in undesirable behavior, an approach the team calls a confession. Since large language models are often trained to produce the response that seems to be desired, they can become increasingly likely to provide sycophancy or state hallucinations with total confidence. The new training model tries to encourage a secondary response from the model about what it did to arrive at the main answer it provides. Confessions are only judged on honesty, as opposed to the multiple factors that are…

On Friday, Vinay Prasad—the Food and Drug Administration’s chief medical and scientific officer and its top vaccine regulator—emailed a stunning memo to staff that quickly leaked to the press. Without evidence, Prasad claimed COVID-19 vaccines have killed 10 children in the US, and, as such, he announced unilateral, sweeping changes to the way the agency regulates and approves vaccines, including seasonal flu shots. On Wednesday evening, a dozen former FDA commissioners, who collectively oversaw the agency for more than 35 years, responded to the memo with a scathing rebuke. Uniting to publish their response in the New England Journal of Medicine,…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A new, noninvasive blood-glucose monitoring system may allow people with diabetes to finally ditch their painful finger pricks and under the skin sensors. Although the current iteration is comparatively bulky, MIT scientists writing in the journal Analytical Chemistry say they are well on their way to scaling down their invention. In time, their light-based approach could even fit on a device the size of a watch. Diabetes management requires a person to regularly monitor their glucose levels. For decades, this almost always required multiple, daily finger…

Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 7 to deserved fanfare, and we’ve been hearing that it resulted in great sales numbers. Now, it’s finally time to learn more specifics about what’s likely one of the biggest wins for the Korean company this year.Samsung is dominating the foldables marketSamsung continued to lead the global foldable smartphone market in Q3 2025 with an estimated 64% share of all shipments. Huawei is a distant second, with a 15% share, followed by Motorola, which has moved past Honor. Vivo, with a 4% share, is the fastest-growing brand, recording a 67% rise in shipments. Xiaomi,…

Bungie and Sony Interactive Entertainment appear to have settled the plagiarism scandal that rocked Marathon before the game was indefinitely delayed in June 2025. Fern Hook, an artist who goes by the name “Antireal” online, posted on X that her issues with Bungie using her work without credit in Marathon have been resolved to her “satisfaction.”Marathon’s distinct art style is one of its charms, but as Hook claimed on X and Bungie later confirmed, a portion of the assets and textures featured in the game’s alpha were lifted from Hook’s work. At the time, Bungie announced that it was conducting…

Amazon kept pricing steady on select flagship products after Cyber Monday ended, and the Bose QuietComfort headphones remain discounted at what marks their lowest price point yet. These wireless noise-cancelling headphones now sell for $199 instead of the regular $349 tag which brings premium Bose audio and industry-leading noise cancellation down to a price bracket where you’d typically find mid-tier alternatives with compromised performance. See at Amazon Adaptive noise cancellation The QuietComfort headphones have microphones around each earcup that constantly pick up sounds from the outside world and they make sound waves that are opposite to the noise that is coming…

“I usually don’t say this, but patch right freakin’ now,” one researcher wrote. “The React CVE listing (CVE-2025-55182) is a perfect 10.” React versions 19.0.1, 19.1.2, or 19.2.1 contain the vulnerable code. Third-party components known to be affected include: Vite RSC plugin Parcel RSC plugin React Router RSC preview RedwoodSDK Waku Next.js According to Wiz and fellow security firm Aikido, the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, resides in Flight, a protocol found in the React Server Components. Next.js has assigned the designation CVE-2025-66478 to track the vulnerability in its package. The vulnerability stems from unsafe deserialization, the coding process of converting…

Astronomers have spotted what is likely the “largest spinning object” ever discovered, and its rotation could hold important clues about how galaxies develop.The whirling structure, located 140 million light-years from Earth, is a long, threadlike string of gas that’s about 5.5 million light-years long and 117,000 light-years wide — wider than our Milky Way galaxy. The cosmic filament has 14 hydrogen-rich galaxies linked to it in a chain, like charms on a bracelet. These galaxies were what gave away the filament’s existence, the researchers explained in a paper published today (Dec. 3) in the journal the Monthly Notices of the…

As a huge baseball fan, I used to love playing a baseball simulation game called Strat-O-Matic baseball. Each major league player has a card that uses percentages to capture his real-life performance. I started playing the game in 1968 and it remains popular. Those were the pre-computer days, and many serious baseball fans would play Strat-O-Matic or rival APBA baseball. In high school, I used to argue with the sports editor of the high school paper, Keth Olberman, about which game was better as he was a big fan of APBA. (As a footnote, I ended up replacing Keith as…

The Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump is moving to reverse more of the climate policies that had been enacted by President Joe Biden. Under a proposed rulemaking by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks in model year 2031 will be reduced to an average of 34.5 miles per gallon, down from the standard of 50.4 miles per gallon that was part of Biden’s plans to encourage more adoption of electric vehicles among US drivers.The move was expected since Trump re-took office. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ordered the NHTSA to review…