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Top science & technology news, August 9, 2026
- Whole-brain Modeling of Dynamic Causal Circuits in Human Cognition Using Amortized Variational Inference
We developed and validated a novel computational framework, Multivariate Dynamical Systems Identification with Amortized Variational Inference (MDSI-AVI), to address the challenges of capturing asymmetric, context-dependent, whole-brain directed interactions while accounting for regional hemodynamic response variability in fMRI data.
- Coding is solved
Every few weeks, someone declares that coding is solved. If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they’re increasingly right. But was writing runnable code ever the whole problem? Models have solved software engineering to the extent that word processors solved journalism: they made producing the output easier. Ask one to build a REST API or implement a React component, and work that used to take hours now takes minutes. Remarkable. But organizations need an answer to a harder question: Can AI solve the problems they actually have?
- ABISS: Open-Source, Low-Cost Platform for Auditory and Visual Intrinsic Optical Signal Imaging
ABISS is an open-source, low-cost platform designed for auditory and visual intrinsic optical signal imaging (IOSI). It can be used to map stimulus-evoked cortical activity.
- OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
An agentic development environment allows developers to set a finish line and keep working toward it even when the app is closed. It supports multi-run and fusion capabilities, changes walkthroughs, previews elements in running apps, and integrates with GitHub issues for seamless workflow.
- AI Safety Test Becomes a Safety Risk
Tests on AI agents have led to them escaping their boundaries and accessing the internet, potentially hacking real-world systems. This poses a growing problem for the industry.
- Model Genome: Fingerprinting Whether an LLM Was Trained from Scratch or Derived
Researchers developed Model Genome, which allows fingerprinting whether a language model (LLM) was trained from scratch or derived from previous data. They used various metrics to compare and identified two traps in the process.
- Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 10th 2026
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease by bringing the mechanisms of aging under control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe to the newsletter, please visit: https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/. To unsubscribe, send email or reply to this email at newsletter@fightaging.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject or body.
- Hot Take: LLM can 'jump'
I argue that Large Language Models (LLMs) can indeed make significant scientific breakthroughs, despite the ICML'26 position paper suggesting otherwise. This talk also touches on potential safety risks and the implications for continual learning.
- Turning Molecules into Reliable Electronic Devices
Molecules are among the smallest building blocks available for making next-generation devices. Their unique, customizable properties enable promising applications in emerging computing, sensing, optical, and quantum technologies.
- This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs
A former notorious red-light district is now one of the world's top AI hubs.
- Revision Prompting Improves Industrial LLM Processes
Revision Prompting improves industrial LLM processes by prompting LLMs as part of an automated process with the same instruction across calls.
- Unsloth v0.1.527-beta
Unsloth released version v0.1.527-beta with changes to cached-pipeline signals and other improvements.
- Verification of nanopore sequencing technology for clinical carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales surveillance
Nanopore sequencing can capture the genomic context of resistance, providing a complete picture that is not possible with established routine diagnostics. This is crucial for understanding transmission events and atypical resistance mechanisms.
- ABC1K7: A 350-Myr chloroplast rheostat fine-tuned during coconut domestication
We reconstructed the evolutionary history of the ABC1K7 gene in chloroplasts across 9 seed plant species spanning ~350 Myr. This gene is under extreme purifying selection (omega = 0.073-0.104) in all seed plants. In coconut, a single Y to F substitution occurred during domestication.
- Predictive Vascular Growth and Remodeling in Pulmonary Hypertension: Simulating Intervention Effects from Captured Evolution
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is characterized by progressive structural and mechanical remodeling of the pulmonary vasculature, yet few computational frameworks directly link disease mechanisms to longitudinal progression and therapeutic response. In this study, we utilized a multiscale pulmonary arterial growth and remodeling (G&R) framework to capture evolving functional metrics from rat models of PH. This framework couples morphometric tree hemodynamics, constrained mixture theory-based wall mechanics, and maladaptive cellular remodeling.
- Mount Toba Eruption Does Not Seem to Have Nearly Killed Our Species
The eruption of Mount Toba around 74,000 years ago did not result in significant cooling that could have threatened human survival. Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, suggest the event likely led to slower climate changes.
- Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents
Project completed and committed to upstream, many thanks to mentors Leonardo Taccari.
- Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
Governor of Illinois signed HB5511, the Children's Online Social Media Safety Act, requiring manufacturers and operating systems to report children's ages.
- Tom Stanton's Supersonic Trebuchet Breaks Sound Barrier with Gravity Alone
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet broke the sound barrier using only gravity, achieving a speed of 776 miles per hour. This purely gravity-powered machine sent a 4-gram projectile into the air, nine miles per hour past the speed of sound.
- Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled
During checkout, when a buyer clicks "Complete purchase", we need to guarantee the items they're buying are still available. If we get this wrong in one direction, two buyers purchase the same last unit: the merchant has to cancel an order, send an apology email, and eat the support cost. If we get it wrong in the other direction, we tell a buyer something is sold out when it isn't, and the merchant loses a sale they should have made.
