Month: June 2025

One of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence has attacked a multibillion-dollar race to develop the cutting-edge technology, saying the latest models are displaying dangerous characteristics such as lying to users.

Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian academic whose work has informed techniques used by top AI groups such as OpenAI and Google, said: “There’s unfortunately a very competitive race between the leading labs, which pushes them towards focusing on capability to make the AI more and more intelligent, but not necessarily put enough emphasis and investment on research on safety.”

The Turing Award winner issued his warning in an interview with the Financial Times, while launching a new non-profit called LawZero. He said the group would focus on building safer systems, vowing to “insulate our research from those commercial pressures.”

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Apple hat gegen die Interoperabilitätsentscheidung der EU-Kommission "im Namen der Nutzer" Berufung eingelegt - und seine Sicht der Dinge dargelegt. (DMA, Apple)

Seit fast 20 Jahren steckt James Cameron tief im Entstehungsprozess der Avatar-Filme. Er hat aber auch Zeit für einen Horrorfilm. (Filme & Serien, Film)

Hinter dem Angriff der Ukraine auf Russlands strategische Bomber steckt Open-Source-Software. Wir zeigen, was Ardupilot für Drohnen so attraktiv macht. Eine Analyse von Johannes Hiltscher (Drohne, Open Source)

Bildraten raten, alles über HDR: Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour entpuppt sich beim Anspielen als ebenso lehrreiches wie trockenes Serious Game. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo)

Eine kompakte Powerbank von Iniu mit 10.000 mAh, drei schnellen USB-Anschlüssen und Display gibt es bei Amazon zum Schnäppchenpreis. (Technik/Hardware)

When tried out Mario Kart World at April's Switch 2 premiere hands-on event, the short demos focused on more-or-less standard races in the game's Grand Prix and Knockout modes. So when Nintendo invited us back for more time previewing the near-final version of the game before the Switch 2's release, we decided to focus most of our time on the game's mysterious (and previously teased) "Free Roam" mode.

We're glad we did, because the mode feels like the hidden gem of Mario Kart World and maybe of the Switch 2 launch as a whole. Combining elements of games like Diddy Kong Racing, Forza Horizon, and even the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, Free Roam provides a unique mixture of racing challenges, exploration, and collectibles that should keep new Switch 2 owners busy for a while.

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Surprisingly, Free Roam mode isn't actually listed as one of the main options when you launch a new game of Mario Kart World. Instead, a tiny note in the corner of the screen tells you to hit the plus button to get dropped into a completely untimed and free-wheeling version of the vast Mario Kart World map.

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Offene Welt, neue Modi und alte Helden: Unser Hands-on zeigt, warum Mario Kart World die aufregendste Schnauzbart-Raserei seit Langem wird. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Mario Kart, Nintendo)

Welt, Grafik, Ciri: Eine Tech-Demo verrät mehr über The Witcher 4. Golem.de konnte die Szenen vorab sehen und erklärt Details. Von Peter Steinlechner (The Witcher 4, Rollenspiel)

It's been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, Andromeda, in the next five billion years and merge into one even bigger galaxy. But a fresh analysis published in the journal Nature Astronomy is casting that longstanding narrative in a more uncertain light. The authors conclude that the likelihood of this collision and merger is closer to the odds of a coin flip, with a roughly 50 percent probability that the two galaxies will avoid such an event during the next ten billion years.

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other smaller galaxies (some not yet discovered) as well as dark matter (per the prevailing standard cosmological model). Both already have remnants of past mergers and interactions with other galaxies, according to the authors.

"Predicting future mergers requires knowledge about the present coordinates, velocities, and masses of the systems partaking in the interaction," the authors wrote. That involves not just the gravitational force between them but also dynamical friction. It's the latter that dominates when galaxies are headed toward a merger, since it causes galactic orbits to decay.

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