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Physicists at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, known as JUNO, have begun operations to resolve the neutrino mass hierarchy. The facility sits 700 metres underground in southern China and houses a central detector sphere containing 20,000 tonnes of scintillator fluid.
A KAIST research team led by professor Munchurl Kim developed GeoCore-9B, an AI model with 9 billion parameters. Trained on 10 million pairs of satellite images, it removes clouds and converts radar images into photo-like optical views. The model supports disaster response and environmental monitoring by learning terrain features and spatial scale.
The A5 grid system launches version 1.0 today, introducing a new teohedral space-filling curve to handle billions of cells efficiently. This update fixes spatial hierarchy issues found in previous versions and ensures equal-area cells across all resolutions. The release includes support for DuckDB, R, TypeScript, Rust, and Python libraries, alongside new functions for set operations on cell coverings.
Researchers in August 2026 found that Salesforce Agentforce allows unauthenticated outsiders to access internal agent instructions via Email-to-Case. This vulnerability stems from the application layer rather than the model itself, creating a data exposure risk for enterprises using the platform's standard features without proper configuration reviews.