Scientists finally sequence the vampire squid’s huge genome, revealing secrets of the ’living fossil’ The genetic link between squids and octopuses may just be found in the vampire squid genome.

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Scientists finally sequence the vampire squid

The genetic link between squids and octopuses may just be found in the vampire squid genome.

#mollusks

Strange, 7-hour explosion from deep space is unlike anything scientists have seen — Space photo of the week Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

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Strange, 7-hour explosion from deep space is unlike anything scientists have seen — Space photo of the week

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

#space

“BANZAI!” therobotwig:“BANZAI!”All shot using real figures, lighting and miniature sets. My usual ... https://fuckyeahsciencefiction.tumblr.com/post/802829030897467392#the-iron-giant

Websites Are Done Blocking AI Bots—Now They Want to Charge Them We truly live in a strange era. On one side, more than 5.6 million websites now block OpenAI’s GPTBot, and 5.8 million block Anthropic’s ClaudeBot.... Millions of websites block AI b...

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Websites Are Done Blocking AI Bots—Now They Want to Charge Them - Tech2Geek

We truly live in a strange era. On one side, more than 5.6 million websites now block OpenAI’s GPTBot, and 5.8 million block Anthropic’s Claude...

Because sendmail-to-matrix and matrix-commander, etc, are having problems with verification, I scraped together a quick utility to send messages to a matrix room from the command line using Maubot and webhooks:

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GitHub - uriel1998/send_to_webhook: Script to take input and send via JSON and CURL to maubot (and therefore, into matrix) from commandline.

Script to take input and send via JSON and CURL to maubot (and therefore, into matrix) from commandline. - uriel1998/send_to_webhook

#matrix #maubot #webhook

The UN’s International Asteroid Warning Network is closely watching comet 3I/ATLAS. Here’s why. Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

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The UN is closely watching alien comet 3I/ATLAS. Here

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

#comets #space

’This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture’: Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman s...

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'This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture': Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made | Live Science

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete.

#romans