Evidence of earliest silkworm farming outside China found, upending Silk Road timeline
It may not be the most majestic creature on our beautiful planet, but the humble silkworm deserves a place alongside horses, cattle, cats, and dogs due to its profound impact on human civilisation.
The luxurious fabric spun from the silkworm’s natural secretion ignited the creation of a vast global trade network, connecting Asia with the Mediterranean. This network became a catalyst for transformative exchanges of goods, ideas, and technologies across continents, significantly shaping the course of world history.
However, the history of silk predates the Silk

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How AI grief bots are allowing people to commune with the dead

It may seem like something ripped directly from an episode of Black Mirror, but generative AI and large language models are now being used to conjure up the dead, using the massive digital footprints many of us leave behind when we die.
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Tributes paid to Jason Arday after ex-Cambridge professor found dead
Tributes have been paid to Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor, after he was found dead at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
In a statement issued by his publisher Simon & Schuster UK, Prof Arday's family said they were "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son".
They said a "campaign of misinformation" had been too much for him.
Arday, 41, resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education last
Sony reveals how Enhanced PSSR improves PS5 Pro upscaling
PS5 Pro Enhanced PSSR puts 90% of model parameters at 540p or below

At SIGGRAPH Daniel Craig, Principal Software Engineer at SIE has detailed the upgraded PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution model used by PS5 Pro. The new version comes from Sony and AMD’s Project Amethyst research, although the implementation remains custom for PlayStation hardware. It can also replace launch PSSR in existing games through a system-level override without requiring a game update.
One of the bigger architectural changes concerns where the neural network capacity
