Cheese may really be giving you nightmares, scientists find

“Nightmare severity is robustly associated with lactose intolerance and other food allergies,” said Dr. Tore Nielsen of Université de Montréal, lead author of the article in Frontiers in Psychology. “These new findings imply that changing eating habits for people with some food sensitivities could alleviate nightmares. They could also explain why people so often blame dairy for bad dreams.”

I stopped eating Swiss cheese at bedtime because my nightmares had plot holes.

After successfully entering Earth’s atmosphere, a European spacecraft is lost

“The capsule was launched successfully, powered the payloads nominally in-orbit, stabilized itself after separation with the launcher, re-entered and re-established communication after black out,” the company said in a statement. “We are still investigating the root causes and will share more information soon. We apologize to all our clients who entrusted us with their payloads.”

The CEO of this company is a woman with a Master’s degree in Public Administration. Not exactly a rocket scientist.

AI vs. MDs: Microsoft AI tool outperforms doctors in diagnosing complex medical cases

The Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) faced off against 21 experienced physicians from the U.S. and United Kingdom presented with complex cases documented in the New England Journal of Medicine. MAI-DxO gave a correct diagnosis for 85.5% of the test cases while the doctors hit the mark 20% of the time.

Medical schools should use Seinfeld re-runs to improve the doctor’s scores.

This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World

Passenger cars are sometimes attached to freight trains, but more often passengers simply ride atop the ore hopper cars freely. Passengers include locals, merchants, and occasionally some adventure tourists. Conditions for these passengers are incredibly harsh with daytime temperatures exceeding 40°C, night-time temperatures approaching freezing, and death from falls being common.

Cool video at the link.

Rogue IT worker gets seven months in prison over $200,000 digital rampage — technician changed all of his company’s passwords after getting suspended

The source indicates that Taj sprang into vindictive action “within hours of being suspended from work in July 2022.” He proceeded to unlawfully access company systems “to deliberately alter login credentials to disrupt the company’s day-to-day activities,” says the law enforcement source. On the second day of his spree, Taj would go on to hobble the company’s MFA systems.

There’s something about the internet that fools people into believing that regular laws don’t apply there.

Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says

The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché’s phone number “to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data.” The report said the hacker also “used Mexico City’s camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with.”

There’s something about cellphones that make people believe that regular security doesn’t apply there.

This $7,000 single-seat electric car has become a hit in Japan

At under 1.5 meters in height, KG Motors’ Mibot has a range of 100 kilometers, a charging time of five hours and a top speed of 60 kilometers per hour. It will cost ¥1 million ($7,000) before tax when production starts in October at KG Motors’ new factory east of the city. That’s about half the price of Japan’s most popular EV, Nissan’s Sakura.

They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick ’em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin’ peep, peep, peep

Job Seeker AI Usage Statistics: 2025 Trends & Insights

The share of applicants who used AI to write their cover letters or resumes more than doubled from February 2024 to January 2025.

Lots of colorful charts at the link. The internet is basically USA Today, with less reliable information, if that’s even possible.

Stanford cuts $140 million, warns of layoffs as research funding dries up, endowment tax looms

Stanford University will cut $140 million from its operations and may lay off employees as it contends with “significant budget consequences from federal policy changes” including reductions in research support and an increase in the endowment tax, officials said.

I’m heartbroken. Torn up. Devastated. Bereft. Gutted. About Stanford? No. My cat lost a fuzzy ball under the radiator. I feel her pain.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI—details buried in a copyright ruling on fair use whose broader fair use implications we reported yesterday.

A book is like a man, Granpa says. You have to hold them both in respect. You can only bend a book or a man so far until they can’t take it no more and then their back breaks.