A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence.

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Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount ...

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A vivid and entertaining polemic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt could tell you, AI is a hard sell these days. Last month, he tried ...

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., volcanic ash buried a vast library in the Roman town of Herculaneum. The hundreds of papyrus scrolls trapped inside were only rediscovered more than 1,500 years ...