A new artificial intelligence model identifies hidden signals in solar data that anticipate a flare with hours of lead time. The news, reported by Phys.org, adds to the wave of AI tools applied to space science. An early warning like this could change how satellites, airlines, and power grid operators prepare for space weather.
skitter-creek-bath-salts is a research project that uses DRAM scrambling to rewrite address translation on AMD Family 16h CPUs and expose memory reserved for the PSP, SMM, and the microcode. It’s not a remote attack: it requires physical access and specific hardware, but it questions how solid the memory isolation guarantees are that the rest of the industry takes for granted.
xAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026, focused on long-running agents and complex visual work. The model matches GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the Artificial Analysis index with 61 points and costs between $2 and $6 per million tokens. It’s already available in Cursor, Grok Build, the xAI API, and OpenRouter.
A technical post from ngrok rebuilds data compression from scratch to reach a counterintuitive conclusion: compressing and predicting are, at their core, the same math problem. The article covers run-length encoding, Huffman coding, and arithmetic coding, and draws a direct line to how modern language models predict text.
Every Cube lets you navigate to any of the 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 legal positions of the Rubik’s Cube by typing an index number. We walk through the group theory behind that figure and the ranking and unranking algorithm that makes it possible to jump straight to a position without generating the ones before it.
