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The designation exposes companies to tougher regulations and transparency requirements.

Fun with SQL? Cyberspace is the place!

Red Cross officials are pleading with Americans to donate blood, especially if they have O-positive blood.

David Ellison announced yesterday, as financial markets closed, that the Paramount-WB merger would be paused until mid 2027 in response to ongoing antitrust concerns. The 12 intervening states successfully obtained a restraining order last Monday.

The report was commissioned by Bernie Sanders.

The word of God or the word of AI?

The rest of the video is devoted to constructing different shaped tubes and experimenting with different noble gases. Krypton produces blue flashes instead of the vivid red of neon, while bringing the mercury/noble gas tubes back into the electrical field generated by the Tesla coil also yields some remarkably beautiful results.

The Trump administration claims wind turbines pose a national security threat. The industry says it’s pure politics.

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Will the richest person in the world get a slap on the wrist?

Titans in a theme park ride set in the Hollow Earth? Sounds cool.

Rilevato zucchero nello spazio interstellare: nuove prospettive sull'origine della vita

Andrea Shaw blamed vaccines for her children’s deaths on a podcast last year hosted by a nonprofit formerly run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Anonymity remains under attack.

The Energy Department issued an emergency order earlier this week allowing PJM, the grid operator for 13 states and Washington, D.C., to require data centers and other large customers to use their own backup power.

Summary by Brave Leo AI :

Central bankers are some of the most powerful people in the world, and we should all pay attention to what they’re saying and hearing. With that in mind, I have troubling news.

It’s easy to imagine which technologies agents could have used, but none would be normal in this context.

Eric Migicovsky, leader of the revived Pebble, is making smartwatches for himself. You’re just along for the ride.

But for all the effort those literary types put into their fictional maps, there’s probably never been anyone quite like Jerry Gretzinger.

Edit: one of our own made a YT video about it

The Trump administration’s haphazard “AI-first"approach to warfare has already killed countless innocents and is setting the stage for a world where no human is ever to blame for the deaths.

Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in the summer of 2024.

AR glasses on the whole aren’t faring much better.

The same mechanisms that dampen people’s cravings for food might also affect our tendency for violent behavior, new research suggests.

5:34: Joe Rogan is, of course, in attendance in Washington, D.C. He’s in a suit (presumably out of respect). His tie is very short.

A federal law setting standards for government data centers is set to expire this year with no clear replacement.

The City of Taylor, Texas, is facing public outcry after residents found out a data center’s being constructed on land donated as a public space.

Lawmakers are once again turning up the legal heat on smart glasses. Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Ciresi (D-Montgomery) has introduced a bill that would require every pair of smart glasses “manufactured, sold, and used” in the state to have a “visual indicator” that tells others when they’re recording.

The Olinia Uno is a planned six-passenger car that can travel up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) on a single charge. It is expected to go on sale next summer for about 150,000 Mexican pesos or roughly $8,500, according to a press release.

A recent report published by the U.K. Parliament’s Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee warned that the country’s ongoing relationships with tech giants will make it hard to ever achieve digital independence, and it highlights Palantir as a particularly risky partner to continue to deal with.