“Mom, it’s me. I’m in trouble.” Your son calls in need of help. A lawyer demands $20K for bail—or else he’s headed to jail. Is it real, or is it an AI scam preying on your emotions? “Mom, It’s Me” is the first episode of Perfect Lies, a @darkmattercouk series made in partnership with @Dell, @McAfee, and Intel, which shines a light on the AI-powered scammers who exploit parental instinct and steal thousands in minutes. Watch it now:

.@RobinWigg on the dark matter of finance: "Repo in the US is like a $12 trillion market that nobody really knows about and understands." "Even monetary economists I know who spend their life on this say that anybody spends too much time looking at short term overnight interest rates goes a little bit mad eventually." "You can't always see it. Most people ignore it, but it actually explains the motion of celestial bodies to a huge degree." Listen: Watch:

I had hopes this might allow LIGO to observe dark matter (DM) axions. The reality is more complicated, but there is still discovery potential for ultra light DM at LIGO and LISA. In any case, it was enjoyable to work it out, and think about cosmic questions.

An international team of scientists says it has detected an intriguing signal that could hint at evidence of dark matter, offering a clue that might bring the mystery of the elusive substance one step closer to a solution.