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As Grand As Dune… Yet Few Have Seen It

Often compared to Frank Herbert’s Dune, this story follows advanced civilizations and their fates across a dark galaxy as they begin to discover the remnants of a far superior progenitor civilization, one that disappeared long before the galactic dating system even began.

This is a full version of Homeworld 1 lore series all put together into one long form video. Enjoy!

Chapters:
00:00 Progenitor Civilization & The Exiles.
05:56 Alien Super-Technology.
09:06 The Great Nebula.
17:49 The Galactic Core.
20:19 Alien Mega-Structures.
22:49 The Homeworld.

Characters and terminology mentioned in the video:
Kharak: The desert planet where Kushan have been exiled 4,000 years ago.
Bentusi: The oldest known alien civilization, and the only one to officially posses hyperspace far-jump technology. Unlike short-jump, it allows near-instantaneous travel to virtually any location in the galaxy.
Taiidan: A powerful empire controlling much of the inner galaxy, including Hiigara.
Kushan: A humanoid civilization exiled from Hiigara 4,000 years ago by the Taiidan. They settled on a desert planet called Kharak. After integrating forbidden hyperspace far-jump core into their Mothership, Kharak was destroyed by the Taiidan.
Kadeshi: The same species as the Kushan. During exile, they settled inside the Great Nebula, which they now call the Garden of Kadesh.
Karan S’jet: The living mind of the Kushan Mothership. Something like a navigator from Dune.
Turanic Raiders: Hostile alien civilization loyal to the Taiidan.
Hyperspace Inhibitors: Technology that shuts down hyperspace engines of any passing ship in a very large radius.
Hiigara: Ancient home of the Kushan, before their exile.
Captain Elson: The leader of Taiidan Rebelion.

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Engineers develop AI tool to design peptides that turn signals on or off

To develop new and better peptides, the short amino acid strings behind medicines like GLP-1 drugs, researchers have used AI to generate candidates and to predict their properties.

However, merging these capabilities into a system that generates peptides likely to activate or block specific targets has proven difficult. In part, this is due to the vast number of possible peptides, but also because predicting how readily a peptide will bind to a target—like G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a family of cell-surface proteins targeted by about one-third of approved drugs—is easier than simultaneously forecasting what effect that binding will have.

Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and The Chinese University of Hong Kong have created TD3B, an AI framework that guides peptide generation toward candidates predicted to have a desired effect. The results, which focus on GPCRs, are described in a paper presented as a Spotlight at the 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning.

The Godfather of AI: A New Species Is Emerging — And We Can’t Stop It | Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel)

In this exclusive, long-form interview, Turing Award laureate Geoffrey Hinton—often called the “Godfather of Deep Learning”—opens up about the promise and peril of advanced AI. Hinton explains why he left Google, how close we really are to artificial general intelligence (AGI), and what guard-rails governments, researchers, and ordinary citizens can put in place today to keep powerful neural networks from going off the rails.

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Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist best known as the “godfather of deep learning.” As a professor at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Google Brain, he pioneered modern neural networks—work that earned him the 2018 Turing Award alongside Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio. Since leaving Google in 2023, Hinton has focused on warning about the societal and existential risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.

Is AI making us stupid?

Not exactly—but how we use it matters.

A new Trends in Cognitive Sciences perspective argues that AI doesn’t inherently erode human intelligence. Instead, it highlights a well-known principle in cognitive psychology: cognitive offloading.

When we let AI perform tasks that require reasoning, writing, memory, or problem-solving, we reduce the amount of mental practice our brains receive. Like physical exercise, cognitive skills strengthen through use and weaken through disuse.

Skills: learned abilities such as writing, mathematical reasoning, diagnosis, or programming. These are most vulnerable if AI consistently replaces the learning process.

Basic cognitive abilities: foundational functions like working memory, attention, and executive control. Current evidence suggests these may be more resistant to decline, although more research is needed.

The key message isn’t that AI makes people “stupid.” Rather: AI can improve immediate performance. Overreliance may reduce long-term learning and skill retention.

AI is most beneficial when it augments human thinking instead of replacing it. This fits with decades of neuroscience showing that practice drives neuroplasticity. The brain adapts to the cognitive demands we place on it. If.

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Uploading the Human Mind To AI Is Now REAL | Artificial Immortality | Full Documentary

If you were able to create an immortal version of yourself, would you? Until this decade, that question was the stuff of science fiction, but now experts in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics suggest it will indeed be possible. This cinematic documentary explores the latest technological advancements in AI, robotics and biotech, and poses the question: what is the essence of the human mind, and can this be replicated? Or even more unsettling, could we one day meet cloned versions of ourselves – clones which are better, smarter, and immortal?

Stars: Bina48, Nick Bostrom, Lincoln Cannon.
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Daniel H. Wilson: We Can’t Win Against Technology, We Are Technology!

“We can’t win against technology. We are technology.”

Daniel H. Wilson said that to me in 2012. Robotics PhD out of Carnegie Mellon, New York Times bestselling novelist, the guy Spielberg optioned for Robopocalypse. Back then, the line landed like a sharp bit of science fiction.

Fourteen years later, it reads less like a provocation and more like a diagnosis.

His novel Amped was about what happens when technology stops being a tool you hold and becomes part of the body you are. In 2012, that was speculative. Now there are chips being implanted in human skulls, and companies are racing to sell you cognitive upgrades. The “superhuman” future Daniel described is being built now, while most people are still debating whether it will show up at all.

What stuck with me most was that he refused the tidy doom story. He didn’t buy that a superhuman AI would spend its existence trying to exterminate us. That’s a human fear projected onto something that owes us nothing. The harder question, the one worth sitting with, is what we become when the enhancement is not a gadget in our hand but us.

Pulled from the archive and worth another look. One of 300+ conversations on #SingularityFM about where #AI and human #enhancement actually lead, not where the marketing promises they will.

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Warm Jupiter exoplanet transiting a sun-like star discovered

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The newfound alien world, designated NGTS-39 b, is a Jupiter-sized planet with an equilibrium temperature of about 519 K. The discovery was detailed in a paper published July 2 on the preprint server arXiv.

NGTS-39 (also known as TIC-453147896) is a relatively bright star of spectral type F9 located some 910 light-years from Earth. The star was observed multiple times between 2019 and 2024 with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which detected a transit signal in its light curve.

Now, a group of astronomers led by Ioannis Apergis of the University of Warwick, UK, have used NGTS’ 12 robotic Newtonian telescopes to perform follow-up photometric observations of NGTS-39. This, together with radial velocity measurements from CORALIE and HARPS spectrographs, allowed the team to confirm the planetary nature of the TESS-detected signal.

‘Ghostcommit’ hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets

A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo’s secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed ‘Ghostcommit,’ slipped past AI code reviewers CodeRabbit and Bugbot, which never open image files at all, then convinced a coding agent to read a repo’s.env and write every secret into the code as a list of numbers.

The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis — Joscha Bach, Hikari Sorensen and Lou de K

This private salon centers on The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis, CIMC’s recently published essay proposing that consciousness may be formally defined in functional terms, computationally realized in artificial systems, and empirically tested.

Speakers.
Joscha Bach – Executive Director \& Board Director, CIMC
Hikari Sorensen – Researcher, CIMC
Hosted by Lou de K. – VP of Programs \& Board Director, CIMC

Event Details.
Recorded on Thursday, March 12
Location: Hillsborough, United States.

Timestamps.

0:00 — Introduction.
10:26 — What is consciousness and how does it relate to reality? Hikari Sorensen.
32:48 — What is it like to be AI?
1:08:34 — Q\&A

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A soft exoskeleton could restore hand function in people with motor impairments

Recent technological advances have opened valuable possibilities for supporting people with motor impairments or who are recovering from injuries to the brain, spinal cord or nerves. Millions of people worldwide currently experience difficulty moving their hands or other parts of their body. Some of these motor impairments are associated with progressive neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), while others are the result of neurological damage caused by an injury or a stroke.

Researchers at Technical University of Munich and the Center for Rehabilitation Passauer Wolf recently developed a new lightweight, soft exoskeleton that could allow people with severe motor impairments to move their hands again and grasp objects. The new robotic system, introduced in a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, combines an advanced mechanical design with muscle-sensing technology and artificial intelligence (AI).

“This recent paper discusses restoring hand function for individuals with severe hand impairment,” Gordon Cheng, who led the study, told Tech Xplore. “Hand functions are critical to every aspect of life. The patient we were working with has near-complete hand function loss, and our work aims to help people with such needs.”

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