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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House voted Thursday to ban entities from China and four other perceived adversarial countries from purchasing land in the state, citing a need to protect farms from the possibility of falling under hostile control.The Missouri legislation, which now heads to the Senate, is one of several similar bills moving through state capitols this year amid international tensions that were peaked by the trek of a Chinese balloon across the U.S.”The balloon was just over this Capitol” in February, Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher said Thursday. “We have to protect Missouri sovereignty, and we have…

Credit: Unsplash+. One possibility to explain the constants of nature is that there’s more than one universe. That we live in a multiverse, with each different universe “sampling” different values of the constants. There are a few extremely hypothetical ideas in physics that can lead to the multiverse. One is through the concept of eternal inflation, where the very early universe never ended its period of rapid expansion, and that different portions of the overall multiverse pinched off, so to speak, to create their own bubble universes. Another path to the multiverse comes from string theory, where extra spatial dimensions…

There’s always some truth in fiction, and now is about the time to get a step ahead of sci-fi dystopias and determine what the risk in machine sentience can be for humans.   Although people have long pondered the future of intelligent machinery, such questions have become all the more pressing with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learningT. These machines resemble human interactions: they can help problem solve, create content, and even carry on conversations. For fans of science fiction and dystopian novels, a looming issue could be on the horizon: what if these machines develop a…

When Kate McKinnon was asked to name a Saturday Night Live sketch that was “perfect from start to finish,” she had an easy answer that’s also a little bit surprising — to Andy Samberg, anyway.”The first of the alien abduction character sketches,” she told Esquire and former fellow cast member Samberg, referring to Season 41’s famous “Close Encounter” co-starring Host Ryan Gosling.”And I had nothing to do with that,” McKinnon said. “Streeter Seidell and Mikey Day just wrote it and handed it to me on the morning of the read-through and were like, “We wrote this, I don’t know.””I didn’t…

If technologically advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in the Milky Way, they are likely to be both extremely rare and much older than our own, according to new research. Presented at the EPSC–DPS 2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, the findings reveal the specific planetary conditions needed for such civilizations to arise, which may be so limited that the nearest example could be located 33,000 light-years away—potentially on the far side of our galaxy. The new research builds on the idea that specific planetary factors are essential for life and technological development. Led by Dr. Manuel Scherf and Professor Helmut Lammer of…

I Am Not Your Enemy, by Reality Winner, Spiegel & Grau, 336 pages, $30 During World War I, the Committee on Public Information—a short-lived agency Smithsonian Magazine would describe in retrospect as “Woodrow Wilson’s propaganda machine”—ran an advertisement titled “Spies and Lies.” “German agents are everywhere, eager to gather scraps of news about our men, our ships, our munitions,” the ad warned. “But while the enemy is most industrious in trying to collect information…he is not superhuman—indeed he is often very stupid, and would fail to get what he wants were it not deliberately handed to him by the carelessness…

Cloud data management and data security company Rubrik Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. with the integration of Rubrik Identity Resilience into the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform. The new integration is designed to advance identity security by allowing customers to roll back malicious identity changes surgically and restore identity providers to a safe state. The integration seeks to address the fact that, as identity-driven attacks increase in speed and sophistication, organizations are under pressure to protect hybrid identities across on-premises and cloud environments. CrowdStrike says Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security already protects every identity, human,…

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump admin will hold off on new tariffs against Chinese goods over Russian oil purchases unless European countries also impose steep duties, stressing that Europe must play a bigger roleUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday the Trump administration would not impose new tariffs on Chinese goods over Beijing’s purchases of Russian oil unless European countries also applied steep duties of their own.In an interview with Reuters, Bessent stressed that Europe must play a stronger role in cutting off Russia’s oil revenues to help end the war in Ukraine.Call for stronger European…

Just when it seemed like the AI race had already been claimed by the usual giants — OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and Perplexity, which among others counts Jeff Bezos of …

In terms of cyber counterintelligence, the strategy sets one of its goals in combating foreign intelligence activities. “Although an increasing number of countries and non-state actors have these capabilities, we are most concerned about Russia, the PRC [People’s Republic of China], Iran and North Korea. In addition, a growing number of commercial firms are flooding the market with high-quality cyber intrusion tools, expanding the pool of FIE [foreign intelligence entity] actors that can threaten our networks and people,” the document states. Cyber operations of FIEs should be limited by building partnerships across various sectors, including federal, state and local governments, the…