From 12 January 2026, EU member states are required to harmonise the monitoring of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water, implementing new provisions of the revised EU Drinking Water Directive. This marks the first time that systematic testing of these compounds has been mandated across the entire EU, with the aim of better protecting public health from contamination by highly persistent chemicals.
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Bionic prostheses usually look futuristic and cool in scientific articles and commercials, but most users consider them “stupid” devices that are tedious to use. Most of these prostheses are primitive to control; the user must tell the prosthesis what and how to do in order to achieve the simplest result, such as picking up a cup of coffee. Researchers at the University of Utah have proposed transferring some control of the prosthesis to a computer so that it decides how to move and the user focuses on what needs to be done.
Today, AI is simultaneously a religion and an irritant: some hope that humanity has gotten its hands on a tool for explosive development; for others, the very disclaimer “made by artificial intelligence” already causes irritation. People worry that LLM will take jobs away from millions and, in the longer run, will become a superintelligence that will enslave humanity. And more and more often we hear that multibillion-dollar infusions into the industry are inflating a bubble that will soon burst.
Doctorina has arrived on Telegram — and it looks like one of the first notable cases of a specialized medical LLM stepping out of the…