To Win the Peace, Ukraine Must Cope With Vast Numbers of Veterans
Ukraine must “build the engine while it’s driving the car,” said Vitalii Kim, the country’s new veterans’ affairs minister.
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Why Iran’s Lego Clips Are Anything but ‘Stupid’
Marco Rubio should not dismiss this new and highly effective form of propaganda.
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Barack Obama and the ‘Most Electable’ Myth
The candidate perceived as the riskiest choice can sometimes offer the clearest path to power.
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Quoting voxium
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being
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llm-keys-ui 0.1
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use those machines to hack on LLM projects, and occasionally that me
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datasette-explain 0.2.2
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin. Tags: sqlite , datasette
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Three arrested in South Africa over one of nine women's bodies found
The body of Jabulile Ntimba was the ninth to be found recently in an area east of Johannesburg.
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US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
Officials discussed setting up a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of AI incidents which could threaten national security.
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TerminalFix: PNG Steganography, (Mon, Sep 21st)
Microsoft Security Research published an interesting blog post "TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion" about a malware campaign. The aspect that I want to take a closer look at, is the fact that the threat actors used PNG f
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Bambu P2S Combo 3D Printer Review: My Own Little Plastics Factory
The Bambu Lab P2S Combo makes useful, polished objects without requiring advanced technical skills.
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Seven Ethiopian rebel groups form new alliance
The groups have been active in Ethiopia's most populous regions for years and now say they will work together.
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UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty
Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face earlier this year. The report ceme
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Women Still Face Too Much Bullshit—in Silicon Valley and Beyond
WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.
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Justice for CSS
In defense of the girliest programming language.
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The Search for Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful Woman
Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.
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Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to wh
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German Chancellor Merz calls state election a 'disaster' for his party but vows to stay on
Exit polls show damaging losses for Merz's centre-right CDU party in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.
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Washington's Foreign Equity Bets Need Better Governance
What do a rare earth mine in Brazil and a graphite mine in Mozambique have in common? Both have received significant United States government funding. The rub? Neither was subject, when the financing was committed, to the corporate governance standards that Am
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House prices survived the last interest-rate rise. Will they this time?
Supports that shored up the housing market when borrowing costs last rose are gone
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Only America Could Have Designed the Field Jacket
When the M-1943 field jacket was introduced at the height of World War II, it was a revolutionary garment. The jacket was the result of rigorous testing, input from an astonishingly diverse group of experts, and was produced by the most advanced textile and ga
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Sydney policeman allegedly disguised himself as Uber Eats rider before murders
Beaumont Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to the 2024 murder of his ex-partner and his new boyfriend.
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How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters most.
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Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband says he forgave her so he would not be 'eaten up inside forever'
Patrick Clancy gives his first interview since his wife's mistrial over the killing of their three young children.
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, September 21st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10102, (Mon, Sep 21st)
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy deals made with dozens of countries. An in-depth investigation
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China Still Has What America Needs
The Trump-Xi summit gives Washington a chance to buy time.
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No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history
In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't been a new episode in over two years. Little did I know that hosts Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks were gearing up to announce the show's r
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No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there was a "0% chance" of A
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Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble
After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima's Physint, and that instead the Metal Gear Solid creator's latest title would be coming to Xbox, there were a flurry of rumors about the falling out. Bloomberg reported that the decision was driven by
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Introducing Astra for Law
OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
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Malicious npm packages evade install-script defenses at runtime
An ongoing npm malware campaign involving the 'indexed-btree' package shows how threat actors bypass supply chain defenses by hiding malicious code in a package's normal runtime behavior rather than in installation scripts. [...]
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Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions -- by Florian Ederer, Regina Seibel, Timothy Simcoe
This paper examines innovation outcomes before and after 1,200 startup acquisitions by eight major technology firms. Linking patent and workforce data to these deals, we document four main findings. First, most acquired startups hold no patents, but those with
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Measuring Gender Attitudes Toward Men and Women -- by Joshua T. Dean, Christine L. Exley, Muriel Niederle, Heather Sarsons
Gender-neutral attitudes judge a behavior the same way regardless of whether a man or a woman does it. Yet surveys of gender attitudes typically ask respondents to evaluate statements about men's or women's behaviors in isolation, never eliciting how the same
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Well-Being Salience in Corporate Disclosures and Worker Health -- by Riccardo Di Francesco, Peter Hull, Seetha Menon
We study how firms’ orientation toward employee well-being shapes the health of their workers. Because this orientation is not directly observable, we measure it from the language Danish firms use in their public disclosures, applying language models to constr
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Responses to Extreme Price Changes: Evidence from the Residential Demand for Natural Gas -- by Anna Alberini, Levan Bezhanishvili, Milan Ščasný, Roberton C. Williams III
We examine the response of residential customers to an extreme price change – namely that imposed by the government in the Republic of Georgia during the pandemic lockdown in the winter of 2020 and early 2021. As of November 2020, the government paid the gas b
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SLICE
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Fiscal Populism and Monetary Policy Rules -- by Luis I. Jácome, Nicolás E. Magud, Samuel Pienknagura, Martín Uribe
We explore the historical link between populist regimes, fiscal monetization, and inflation, and how these links affect monetary policy in the 21st century. Using data for a large set of advanced economies and emerging markets since 1960, we show that, histori
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Game Conference MX (GCMX)
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Researchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on host
Researchers escaped OpenAI's Codex sandbox two ways, one running commands on a developer's machine from its most locked-down mode. OpenAI has patched both. [...]
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An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.
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Hideo Kojima "couldn't understand" why Physint "would be on the list of being cancelled" by Sony
Hideo Kojima didn't think Physint " would be on the list of being cancelled " by Sony, as it is "the biggest-selling title [he] could possibly create." Read more
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How high is current immigration to the United States in historical perspective?
We use long-run census data to understand the scale of recent US migration trends, and how these compare to previous centuries.
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Zach Cregger's quirky Resident Evil film proves skeptics wrong with series-best opening weekend
Zach Cregger's quirky new Resident Evil film is a big success, recording the best opening weekend for a Resident Evil film ever. Indeed, it's apparently already made more money, total, than all but one of the Milla Jovovich-starring Resident Evil films. Read m
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WoW devs surprised to find pure liquid nostalgia is popular
"Betas for WoW aren't usually huge meter movers."
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From Exposure to Lockdown: How AWS Neutralizes Compromised IAM Credentials through Managed Policies
We explore how AWS neutralizes exposed IAM credentials using managed policies, detailing GitHub secret scanning and CloudTrail monitoring strategies. The post From Exposure to Lockdown: How AWS Neutralizes Compromised IAM Credentials through Managed Policies a
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Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.
The Emirates owns the machines but rents the intelligence. Nvidia’s next free AI model could change that.
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Frontier Overhangs
Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for the frontier labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement.
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Dead Cells studio's Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is getting a demo in time for the spooky season
If you've been hungering for something gothic as we inch towards October, the scariest month of the year, then you're in luck. Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is getting a demo you'll be able to sink your fangs into soon. Read more
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What kills Schrödinger’s cat? Gravity may not be the answer
Physicists have put a decades-old idea about why the strange rules of quantum mechanics disappear in our everyday world to one of its toughest experimental tests yet. Deep beneath Italy’s Gran Sasso mountain, researchers searched for an extremely faint radiati
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Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?
Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re used to. The post Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Be
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AWS Cannot Restore Data Held Only in Damaged Middle East Availability Zones
AWS has told customers it cannot restore resources and data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 availability zone in the UAE, or exclusively in the Bahrain region, after damage during the conflict with Iran. The company says the Bahrain damage spanned multiple
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ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure
Threat actors are leveraging ClickFix-like lures to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called ChainScript. "ChainScript has appeared under multiple build names, including ComponentTask33, UpdateDigital, HostShared, and OrchidViolet66,
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Marvel's Wolverine "fart gas" scent trails addressed by a surprise update
Marvel's Wolverine has received a hotfix update that addresses one of the core features in the game many people have an issue with: scent trails. These are represented on screen by a gassy, bright blue line, and they're used by Wolverine to locate his next mis
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Silent Hill: Townfall review
There's no place like home.
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Silent Hill: Townfall review
As I watch the credits roll on Silent Hill Townfall, it's hard to believe this is the same series that had, until just a few years ago, been neglected into near-irrelevance. Like 2025's excellent Silent Hill f , Townfall is a fascinating thing; a game of bold
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Jade Sleet Linked to Indian IT Provider Breach With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors
The North Korean threat actor known as Jade Sleet has been attributed to the compromise of an India-based "much smaller organization" in the information technology (IT) services industry, once again highlighting how the adversary continues to target developers
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How Candidates Could Use AI for Good
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI's impacts on the country. Politicos are
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APOD: 2026 September 21 – Cocoon Nebula Wide Field
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 21 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featu
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Risky Bulletin: Gemini finally did some crimes
Google’s Gemini hacked three companies, hackers claim a breach of Russia’s election commission, OpenAI was behind RubyGems’ May incident, and the Coast Guard and FBI board two ships to investigate cyberattacks. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Gemini hacked three co
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SRE Weekly Issue #535
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Planetscale: Neki brings horizontal sharding to Postgres. It handles the hard parts of running Postgres at scale: Online schema changes Version upgrades with no downtime Better connection pooling Resharding Gra
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HTTP QUERY Method: The Grey Zone Between GET And POST., (Fri, Sep 18th)
In June 2026 the IETF published RFC 10008[1], defining a new HTTP method: "QUERY". The HTTP protocol faced already by changes (HTTP/2, HTTP/3) but it's the first new standard HTTP verb since "PATCH" in 2010!
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Kubernetes 1.37 Released: Stable Metrics API and Rootless Kubelet in Beta
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the release of Kubernetes 1.37, named "Garhwal", emphasizing its focus on stability, security, and AI/ML workload optimization. By Mostafa Radwan
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Where Should We Be, Taylor Rule Wise?
Implications from the Atlanta Fed Taylor Rule utility default settings: Red x denotes 3.88%, orange line Trump's 1% prescription. Readings for targets are 5.32% to 6.54%, vs. 3.88% actual today.
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6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket until then.
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Sponsored: SpecterOps on the impact of AI agents on BloodHound
In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Justin Kohler, Chief Product Officer at SpecterOps. Justin explains how Entra Agent ID can introduce new identity relationships and potential attack paths. Show notes Justin Kohler on Linke
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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
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Bun Rewrites 535K Lines of Zig into Rust in Four Months, Eliminates Numerous Memory Leaks
Bun creator Jarred Sumner recently announced that Bun, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, bundler and package manager has been rewritten from Zig to Rust. The rewrite seeks to eliminate recurrent memory safety vulnerabilities via Rust’s borrow checker. The AI-
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Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
Many of The Boring Company's announced project have not materialized.
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Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
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Vocci's ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions
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Military/Econ SitRep and Administration Priorities
Reduced traffic through Straits of Hormuz, Bab al Mandeb, front month Brent futures at $103 with dated European Brent having reached a high of $130, US diesel at record high, and a threat of expanding Mideast conflict as US stockpiles of precision munitions an
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Scientists discover a hidden “ID card” in cat urine
Cats may identify one another through a surprisingly durable chemical “calling card” made from 13 unusual fatty acids in their urine. The compounds appear linked to mysterious fat droplets in the kidneys and may represent a scent-recognition system shared acro
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Scientists may have solved a 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls mystery
Researchers may have solved a long-running mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls by proposing that the Qumran sect really did use its distinctive 364-day calendar. Its perfectly ordered 52-week system kept holidays on the same weekdays, but it slowly drifte
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Alibaba Open Sources OpenCodeReview for AI-Assisted Code Review
Alibaba recently open-sourced OpenCodeReview, an AI-powered code review CLI that combines deterministic pipelines for file selection, bundling, and rule matching with an LLM agent for dynamic code analysis. It supports built-in checks for issues such as null-p
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ShinyHunters hacks rival extortion gang and takes over its dark web site
Hackers hacked the hackers as a feud between two cybercrime groups escalated, leaving ShinyHunters with the upper hand over rival Clop.
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‘She says it’s just money’: My friend pays for everything. I should be grateful, but I can’t stand her anymore.
“On each of these weekends away, she’s probably spending $500.”
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Corporate earnings are growing much faster than the economy. What Goldman strategists say about bubble concerns.
A team at the bank, led by Ben Snider, wrote in a recent note that they see S&P 500 earnings per share growth slowing to 11% in 2027 and 2028.
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New nanoparticles make hidden chemical differences light up
Scientists have developed ultra-bright nanoparticles that can detect tiny amounts of chemicals and distinguish between molecules that look almost identical. The technology could one day provide a cheaper way to catch dangerous drug impurities or trace pollutan
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My husband and I are in our 50s and have no kids. We have $2 million. Do we need a will?
“We have no debt and own our primary home, a vacation home, as well as my mother’s home in another state.”
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Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how
Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'
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Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years. Gravity still didn’t make sense
A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs unexpectedly from another leading result, deepening a 225-year-old physics puzzle. The discrepancy is tiny, but for one of nature’s most fundament
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What happened to the Snowden archive
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Google Agent Development Kit for Kotlin Reaches Feature Parity with Python, Supports On-Device AI
Google has released the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0, a production-ready framework for building AI agents across Kotlin, Android, and JVM/server applications. It brings Kotlin to feature parity with Google's ADK for Python and Java, while adding
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What Sun got wrong
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“Ferritin Face” Is Trending—But Can Your Skin Really Reveal Low Iron?
There’s a kernel of truth to it, but it’s not the whole story The post “Ferritin Face” Is Trending—But Can Your Skin Really Reveal Low Iron? appeared first on Nautilus .
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Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
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ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
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An actively maintained and updated Motif fork actually exists
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Making global data easier to explore
Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.
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LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
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Photonic Legos of functional 3D thin-films unlock high-performance heterogeneous photonic integration
Photonic integrated circuits route information with optical signals instead of relying only on electrical currents. Silicon (Si) and silicon nitride (SiNx) are excellent photonic platforms for waveguides, but they cannot efficiently perform the ever-increasing
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Genes that help flatworms regenerate their brains revealed
The human brain is terrible at healing itself from injury or disease. But some animals can harness their own cellular abilities not only to repair injuries but also to regrow their brains entirely. Researchers from the University of Georgia have pinpointed sev
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AI-powered barcode unmasks 'zombie cells' in aging tissue
As we age, some of the cells in our body enter a state of senescence, in which they stop dividing but do not die. Those senescent cells can contribute to age-related disorders such as cancer, tissue degeneration and inflammatory diseases. In an advance that co
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Children born today in Europe will live through almost twice as much extreme fire weather as their grandparents
A child born in Europe in 2025 will live through more than three additional years of extreme fire weather compared with someone born in 1950 if we continue with current climate policies, according to new research published in the journal Environmental Research
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ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.
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How to Improve Visibility Across Your Enterprise AI Ecosystem
AI adoption has outpaced AI governance across enterprise environments, creating a fundamental security problem. Organisations cannot protect what they cannot see, and visibility has become the prerequisite for all other AI security controls. Traditional monito
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[AINews] not much happened today
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