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Friday September 5, 2025. 10:41 PM
A first-of-its-kind global research expedition has extracted freshwater samples from beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor off Cape Cod, documenting a massive aquifer stretching from New Jersey to Maine. The three-month Expedition 501, funded at $25 million by the National...
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tldr; boffins did it interview It all started as an idea for a research paper. …
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Microsoft is giving away Microsoft 365 Personal subscriptions to all US college students. From a report: This subscription gives students free access to Microsoft's Office apps and the Copilot AI assistant integration for a year, after which the students are eligible for a...
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Pro tip, don't install PowerShell commands without approval A team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by tricking users into pasting malicious commands through a technique called ClickFix,...
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The pursuit of self-improvement can sometimes lead us astray, according to neuroscientist Rachel Barr. She's coined the term 'cold-plunge fallacy' to describe how specific wellness trends might do more harm than good for some individuals. Barr's concept, as reported in Big...
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Databricks has added a new agent, the Data Science Agent, to the Databricks Assistant, in an effort to help data practitioners automate analytics tasks. The agent, which is available now in preview and is expected to be rolled out soon to enterprise customers, can be toggled ...
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Networks of pipes and heat exchangers can transfer excess heat from buildings into nearby bodies of water -- but as the world warms, the cooling potential of some water courses is now diminishing, Wired reports. Paris's district cooling network, which pipes Seine river water ...
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Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.
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Once again, the CEOs of many powerful tech companies are prostrating themselves at the feet of a bloated Orange Menace. 'You and your policies are really helping a lot,' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the president. AMD CEO Lisa Su praised 'the amount of acceleration...
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After years of foot-dragging, penalties for blocking access finally kick in It took four presidential administrations to finally get it done, but US health care actors that block patient and provider access to electronic medical data may finally begin to face actual...
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A study, which an NPR article calls 'rigorous,' but also includes some red flags from psychedelic researchers, shows that people who were given enough LSD to experience 'what people might call a trip' experienced a reduction in anxiety. 'By the next day, they were showing...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Can AI help 'smooth over' discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta....
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Mark Benioff made more tone-deaf statements about how AI is allowing him to eliminate thousands of jobs from Salesforce's staff. While the actual numbers, unsurprisingly, appear smaller than the CEO claimed, the gleeful march towards sending people home and replacing them...
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The Rust Foundation, steward of the Rust programming language, has launched the Rust Innovation Lab, offering fiscal sponsorship to relevant, well-funded open source projects. The inaugural hosted project is Rustls, a memory-safe, high-performance TLS (Transport Layer...
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A secretly recorded conversation with a top Department of Justice (DOJ) official accuses Pam Bondi and the DOJ of a massive cover-up in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Joseph Schnitt, the Acting Deputy Chief of the Office of Enforcement Operations, was covertly recorded by...
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A dog that witnessed its owner being killed in a hit-and-run refused to leave its side and has found a new home and a new friend to love. This poor pup endured tragedy. Alex Choi saw and heard the mourning dog and couldn't leave him by the side of the road or allow him...
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9.9-rated flaw on the loose, so patch now A critical code-injection bug in SAP S/4HANA that allows low-privileged attackers to take over your SAP system is being actively exploited, according to security researchers.…
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I've long heard stories of folks scattering the ashes of loved ones around Disneyland and WDW. YouTuber Lauren the Mortician offers a deep dive into the disgusting practice. Space is certainly at a premium at Disneyland, but I'd think there's plenty of room in Florida...
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Anthropic is blocking its services from Chinese-controlled companies, saying it's taking steps to prevent a US adversary from advancing in AI and threatening American national security. From a report: The San Francisco-based startup is widening existing restrictions on...
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