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Scientists Uncover Lost ‘Golden Age’ of Languages That Ended 1,000 Years Ago
12+ hour, 20+ min ago (797+ words) Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that spoke in tongues, sought forbidden love, orbited an orbiter, and performed ritual magic. First, scientists have uncovered a “golden age” of languages that flourished for millennia before fading…...
Orcas Explode Fish Into Confetti, Possibly for Fun, In ‘Astounding’ New Video
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (357+ words) Scientists have discovered a previously unknown behavior in orcas that involves one member of a pod holding up a massive dead sunfish while another charges and rams it, resulting in the dramatic explosion of the carcass into fleshy fragments, according…...
Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (301+ words) Apple says it has fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email feature which let essentially anyone figure out a user’s real email address which was supposed to be protected by the feature. Apple only fixed the vulnerability after 404 Media…...
New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (641+ words) The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) looked at ways to arm quadcopter drones with weapons, according to a draft version of its drone manual shared with 404 Media. A draft version of the manual, which was live on the NOPD website…...
Ancient Princesses Were Weapon-Wielding Badasses, Scientists Discover
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (975+ words) Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that loosed arrows, made sacrifices, prepared for battle, and took the hit. First, a bunch of ancient princesses were buried with weapons. Did they know how to use them?...
Scientists Discover Planet Has Everything to Host ‘Earth-Like Life’ In Breakthrough
1+ week, 2+ day ago (553+ words) Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of its star for the first time in history, signalling a major breakthrough in the search for alien life, according to a study published on Thursday in…...
I Bought the $3,000 Fitness Suit That Electrocutes You. I’m Sending It Back
1+ week, 5+ day ago (379+ words) 404 Media I Bought the $3,000 Fitness Suit That Electrocutes You. I’m Sending It Back Putting on the $3,000 Katalyst suit is like sliding around with an electric eel. First you lay out the vest, shorts, and arm straps (on a towel if…...
Scientists Solve Mystery of Bizarre ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (722+ words) Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that busted their butts, scaled great heights, got it right, and discovered a new world. First, Hannibal marched an army of men, horses, and elephants over the Alps to…...
AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds
2+ week, 1+ day ago (231+ words) To test StoryScope, the researchers selected 10,272 human-written stories then reverse engineered them into writing prompts using Gemini 2.5. Then it took those thousands of prompts and fed them into Gemini 3 Flash, DeepSeek V3.2, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Kimi K2.5, and GPT 5.4. All of the data…...
Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
2+ week, 2+ day ago (161+ words) Patreon announced on Thursday that it’s partnering with Cloudflare to block crawlers from stealing creators’ work to train AI models. “I HAVE A KICKASS PRODUCT UPDATE FOR YOU ALL!” Jack Conte, the founder and CEO of Patreon, wrote in a…...