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What’s the point of a blazing-fast computer and AI bots if your internet still feels like dial-up from 2003? 😭😭
I have a strong suspicion that many people are living with me in my house. I can’t find any other way to explain why the sink has so many coffee cups 😏
wowow: Scientists reverse 60+ years of cellular aging in the lab......
Researchers at the University of Bonn (Germany) reprogrammed immature blood cells from an 80-year-old into neural stem cells (cells that can become neurons). Using epigenetic clocks (which track chemical marks on DNA that change with age), the cells registered a molecular age under 20 — a reversal of more than 60 years.
Unlike earlier methods that rapidly reset cells by first making them fully pluripotent (stem cells with unlimited potential), this direct conversion happens gradually over 50–100+ days. That slow timeline lets scientists watch the rejuvenation process unfold and study what speeds it up or slows it down.
The cells also behaved more like young cells. The team (led by Oliver Brüstle) published the work in Aging Cell. It’s a lab model, not a treatment for people, but it offers a powerful window into how aging works at the cellular level — especially relevant for age-related brain diseases like Alzheimer’s.
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This 12 years old kid win Australian Poetry Slam youth prize with poem about ChatGPT:
‘It’s totally unnecessary’
Blake Mackenzie, a 12-year-old year-six student from Newcastle, has won the top youth prize at the 2026 Australian Poetry Slam for his reflections on artificial intelligence.
The winning piece, Dear ChatGPT, was performed at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night. It covers doomscrolling, loneliness, intellectual atrophy, brain rot and early exposure to pornography in the age of AI. Smart, succinct lines that stood out included “You’re designed to addict us and never contradict us” and “Your friendship is endless so why do I feel friendless?”
The judges, randomly selected from the audience, may have been even more impressed to learn Blake wrote the poem only the day before. “I was making them as I went through [the competition],” he said. “I just kept winning and it was all because I wrote a cool poem in class one day.”
Inspired by the way his friends use chatbots in what he sees as a needless way — summarising school reading instead of reading the actual chapters — Blake has said the more people rely on the technology, the more power and resources it consumes. “It’s totally unnecessary,” he noted, pointing also to the large volumes of water used by data centres.
He did not use AI to write the poem (“No, that’s very not allowed”) and generally avoids chatbots. Encouraged by his teacher, Mrs Welsh, he progressed through regional and state heats before the national final. As youth winner he shares a $20,000 prize package with adult champion Bivor and will represent the competition at writing and poetry festivals in Australia.
