I ricercatori Colin Domnauer e Bryn Dentinger della University of Utah hanno sequenziato il genoma del fungo Lanmaoa asiatica, noto in Cina e nelle Filippine per indurre allucinazioni visive di piccoli esseri antropomorfi alti tra i 3 e i 30 centimetri. Lo studio, pubblicato su Mycologia, ha confermato l'unicità di questa specie all'interno del genere Lanmaoa, ma la mappatura genetica ha escluso la presenza di tossine o molecole psicoattive note come psilocibina e acido ibotenico. Poiché le allucinazioni seguono rigide interazioni con la fisica dell'ambiente circostante e si ripetono in modo identico tra culture diverse, i micologi ipotizzano la presenza di un composto chimico del tutto inedito grado di agire sui meccanismi neurologici della percezione visiva.

Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon's use of content from their channels to train Amazon's "generative AI content models." The change, announced today, comes more than two years after a company executive confirmed that Amazon was using Twitch content for AI training.

In an updated support page, Twitch confirms that users must opt out if they don’t want their “streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel [to] be used in future training of a model developed by Amazon whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video.”

To opt out, users must go to the proper settings at www.twitch.tv/settings/security.

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Romanian army divers used explosives to destroy two Russian-made drones found floating in the Black Sea near Romania’s largest natural gas project, according to the NATO member country’s defense minister.

Defense Minister Radu Miruță posted a Facebook video supposedly showing one of the drones being blown up in the water by explosive ordnance disposal divers of the Romanian army on August 11, as reported by Reuters and other news outlets. The drones were first spotted in the water by a ship working in the vicinity of the Neptun Deep—an offshore gas project under development in the Black Sea that will make Romania the largest gas producer in the European Union.

A Romanian Coast Guard ship that responded with army soldiers aboard found two drifting Gerbera-type drones of Russian design along with other debris. Miruță also disclosed that Romania had reached out to “Ukrainian partners who confirmed that the systems do not belong to them.”

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