Research
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Apr 26, 2026
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The Man Who Got 217 COVID Vaccines: What His Immune System Revealed
A 62-year-old from Magdeburg received more than 200 SARS-CoV-2 doses across 29 months; researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg found no immune damage, elevated antibody concentrations, and no side effects — but explicitly caution against replication.
Research
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Apr 18, 2026
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7 min read
The Shoggoth in the Machine: What a Lovecraftian Horror Meme Reveals About AI's Most Serious Scientific Problem
The AI research community has adopted a tentacled creature from 1930s horror fiction as the defining symbol of large language models; behind the joke is a technical problem with serious implications for safety, alignment, and the future of the field.
Research
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Apr 9, 2026
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7 min read
UK Banking's Latest Data Breaches: A Pattern With Growing Consequences
From a software defect that exposed the transactions of nearly half a million Lloyds customers to a ransomware attack that stripped data from 6.6 million pension holders, a succession of incidents over the past two years has placed UK financial institutions under sustained regulatory and parliamentary scrutiny.
Politics
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Apr 4, 2026
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Trump Says Iran War Exit Will Be a Joint Call With Israel; Later Claims Otherwise
President Trump has offered contradictory signals on who holds authority over ending the US-Israeli assault on Iran; his shifting statements expose a fault line in coalition command as the conflict enters its fifth week with no exit terms agreed and Iran still firing.
