🧬 Scientists grew living human skin on a robot A robotic finger just got something incredibly human — living skin. Researchers at the University of Tokyo grew skin from human cells directly on a working robotic finger. The cells formed layers similar to real human skin, including a dermis and an outer epidermis. As the robot moved, the skin stretched and bent with it. Even more fascinating, it developed natural-looking wrinkles around the joints. Then came the real surprise. Researchers made a small cut in the artificial skin, and with the help of a collagen bandage, the living cells gradually repaired the wound in about a week. The technology still has a major challenge: the living skin must stay moist to keep the cells alive. But this could be an early step toward robots with more realistic skin, smarter prosthetics, and machines that interact with humans in surprisingly lifelike ways. The future of robotics may not just be made of metal. It may be partly alive. Source: Kawai, Y., et al. Living skin on a robot. Matter, 5(7), 2190–2208.

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST CAPTURED AN IMAGE OF A QUANTUM MYSTERY For decades, scientists have known that two particles can become entangled, meaning their quantum states can remain connected even when the particles are separated. But there has always been a fascinating question: can we actually see what this strange connection looks like? Now, physicists have created images that reveal the interference pattern produced by entangled photons. The image does not show two photons physically connected by some invisible thread. Instead, it shows the pattern of probabilities created by their quantum behavior. Bright and dark regions appear as different probability amplitudes combine, strengthen each other, or cancel each other out. It is similar to what happens when waves overlap. In some places they add together and become stronger. In others, they cancel out. But here, the pattern comes from quantum probabilities rather than ordinary water or sound waves. What makes the experiment so interesting is that scientists are getting a more direct view of the correlations within an entangled quantum state. Normally, researchers have to perform many measurements and use the results to reconstruct what is happening. This kind of imaging could make complicated quantum states easier to study and control. In the future, techniques like this could be useful in areas such as quantum computing, quantum communication and highly precise measurements. And there is something genuinely strange about the picture. It isn’t a photograph of an invisible connection between two particles. It is a picture of what their quantum possibilities look like when they interfere. At the smallest scales, nature does not behave like the familiar objects we see around us. Particles can exist in quantum states where probabilities interfere, outcomes become correlated, and patterns emerge that have no simple everyday equivalent. For something we cannot see with our eyes, the fact that its behavior can now be turned into an image is remarkable. Source: Scientific Reports / Physical Review Letters

‼️ BREAKING: A security researcher says he has a full VM escape zero-day: guest-to-host root in "industry standard hypervisors." Vercel awarded him its maximum $50,000 bounty, a screenshot he posted shows. Vercel's message puts the bug in its Critical class: microVM-to-EC2 host escape and cross-tenant access.

Twin bolts touching down on Bar Beach, Newcastle, Australia [📹 David Diehm]

Fractional distillation of crude oil [📹 atomic_laboratory_]

Cloudflare's Clef beat Jev in just two weeks How: "frozen" Qwen does one prefill pass, a tiny schema head scores every answer option in parallel, with no text generated at all. That's why it's 4x faster than Jev at 2x the accuracy on some benchmarks. And it's open source! Link to HF: huggingface.co/Cloudflare/cl…

Aviation solved AI slop in 1986. Karpathy is telling people to ask their LLM to write in ASD-STE100, a controlled language built for aircraft maintenance manuals. I went down the rabbit hole on where this spec comes from, and the backstory makes the hack even better. Back in the late 1970s, European airlines were handing English manuals to mechanics around the world who mostly didn't speak English as a first language. One ambiguous sentence in a fuel line procedure can get people killed. So the industry built a version of English where ambiguity is banned at the dictionary level. The spec allows roughly 900 approved words. Each word gets one meaning and one part of speech. "Close" can only be a verb, because "close the door" and "the close door" can't be allowed to coexist in a repair manual. "Follow" only means to come after. If you want obey, you write obey. Procedural sentences max out at 20 words. One instruction per sentence. Active voice only. Around 1,200 common words are explicitly banned, each with a mandated replacement. You don't "commence pumping." You start the pump. English has about 170,000 words in current use. Aviation decided mechanics get 900, and planes became safer to maintain because of it. Now flip it to LLMs. Models hedge and synonym-cycle because the training data rewards sounding fluent. STE is 40 years of accumulated rules for stripping exactly that out, written by people whose readers would die if a sentence could be read two ways. It might be the strongest anti-slop prompt in existence, and it's a free PDF.

BREAKING: American man accused of kidnapping Flock camera, "digitally waterboarding" it by subjecting it to 23,040 license plates per second via six 4K monitors rapidly flashing images of plates.

BREAKING: bitcoin sent via apple's "find my" mesh network possibly the most absurd medium to send bitcoin yet a small device convinces nearby iphones to transmit tiny amounts of data with cashu ecash to the recipient. without any internet connection. magic i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ money.

The big labs are mad that they don’t have a monopoly on cyber. Last month we went viral for releasing GLM-5.3 with customer-controlled guardrails. While the big labs gatekept the technology, we made it widely available to the industry, attracting customers from startups to Fortune 500 companies. All cited that the labs' centralized guardrails stopped them from doing their job, even when they had access to special “cyber” programs. We’re building this product for you, so that you can define your guardrails - no more black boxes.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon, they were mapping the real world for AI

Made a tool in @FlowbyGoogle so anyone can make their own 4D time cube. Try it out on desktop. Link in bio. #googlepartner Love seeing everyone’s spin on this #xyplust #timecube

🇦🇺 Who knew? Australia has a rather spectacular Achilles' heel hiding in its economy. It consumes more diesel per person than any other OECD country shown here. 1.10 tons of oil equivalent per capita, almost twice the U.S. and nearly seven times Mexico. That makes sense when you look at what Australia actually runs on: mining machinery, agriculture, heavy transport and enormous freight distances. And here comes the slap in the face: Australia imports roughly 87% of its diesel. And we're currently discovering what that means. The OECD says Australian diesel prices surged about 66% by mid-April after the Middle East energy shock, even with a temporary cut in fuel taxes. Australia doesn't just have an oil-price problem. But has built an extraordinary amount of its physical economy around a fuel it largely cannot make itself. This whole thing looks increasingly difficult to manage. Source: @jackprandelli / Writer: Oliver

🇨🇳HUGE: China is reportedly probing DeepSeek and Moonshot itself, after 35 MILLION chats were allegedly routed to Anthropic's Claude. Regulators visited both companies over concerns that sensitive police and military data ended up on US servers, per The Information. Anthropic says Moonshot routed over 23 MILLION exchanges through 5,380 fraudulent accounts, while DeepSeek generated 12.1 MILLION in 14 days. China's internet regulator first summoned all seven labs named in Anthropic's report before narrowing its probe to these two. Moonshot is also preparing a $3 BILLION Hong Kong IPO, which would need to disclose any investigation.