10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

Like all AI models based on the Transformer architecture, the large language models (LLMs) that underpin today’s coding ...
The New York Times

Some of the World’s Atomic Clocks Were Off Last Week (by 5-Millionths of a Second)

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...
The Denver Post

Colorado power outages disrupt atomic clock in Boulder

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Power shut off across Colorado last week as hurricane-force winds swept across the state. In Boulder, one of those outages caused time to briefly stand still ...
Reuters

Indian parliament approves landmark atomic energy bill to open nuclear power to private sector

NEW DELHI, Dec 18 (Reuters) - India's parliament approved on Thursday a landmark atomic energy bill that allows private and foreign companies to enter the nuclear power sector, as the energy-hungry ...
New Atlas

New Space Armor shields satellites from hypersonic space debris

With satellites orbiting the Earth exploding into tens of thousands of pieces, the danger of collisions with space debris is a major problem, so Atomic-6 has developed new Space Armor tiles that are ...
Phys.org

Quantum mechanics trumps the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does not apply to objects on the atomic scale whose physical properties are linked ...
brooklynvegan

Atomic Rule (Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams' new band) release debut demo

After Every Time I Die broke up, most of the band formed Better Lovers (who released a new single this week) and singer Keith Buckley formed Many Eyes (who released a new EP last week), while ...
GovCon Wire

IonQ to Acquire Vector Atomic to Expand Quantum Technology Portfolio

IonQ said Wednesday the planned acquisition is intended to expand its quantum technology portfolio. By integrating Vector Atomic’s advanced PNT systems, including rackmount optical atomic clocks, ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...
CBS News

As Hiroshima marks 80 years since U.S. atomic bombing, survivor says "nuclear weapons and humanity cannot co-exist"

Looking out over the skyline of Hiroshima, 96-year-old Junji Sarashina points out places from his childhood. "That was my grade school. Not too far from here," he tells his granddaughter, showing her ...
Wired

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...
Task & Purpose

‘Atomic Echoes’ interviews survivors of atomic bombings

Two women, whose families fought on opposite sides of World War II, travel together from the United States to Japan to tell the stories of the people who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...