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Ithaca's king defies the gods in final The Odyssey trailer - 2/07 12:58 am

"You gods don't speak in ways we understand."





After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global .. - 2/07 12:44 am

US lifts curbs on Anthropics advanced Fable and Mythos models.





NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade .. - 2/07 12:11 am

Starliner's certification may be delayed to 2027, 10 years later than Boeing's original schedule.





A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago? - 1/07 11:20 pm

A timely tale about a 50-year-old robotic arm...





UK likely to intervene in Paramount takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery - 1/07 9:24 pm

The acquisition was approved without concessions by the Department of Justice in June.





June research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed - 1/07 6:11 am

Also, the science of poop's distinctive shape, boron buckyballs, and the secret to a soccer feint.





Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com - 1/07 5:46 am

Logged-out Old Reddit access is significant source of abusive scraping."





Amazon blames piracy apps with malware for killing new Fire Stick .. - 1/07 5:04 am

New Fire Stick OS helps Amazon block third-party homepage launchers, ad blockers.





NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon - 1/07 4:50 am

"That would be an awesome capability."





Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more - 1/07 4:38 am

Tenor still connects to Google apps, but other platforms must look elsewhere for GIFs.





Apple takes Epic fight over app store fees to the Supreme Court - 1/07 4:20 am

Supreme Court will weigh if Apple contempt finding in Epic case is erroneous.





New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea - 1/07 4:03 am

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.





Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet - 1/07 2:36 am

They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.





RFK Jr. stacks FDA panel with peptide peddlers as FDA scientists oppose .. - 1/07 2:25 am

Peptide drugs are popular, but FDA scientists warn they're untested, may be harmful.





Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors - 1/07 12:59 am

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.





The US going 100% EV by 2040 would save more than 100k lives, study says - 1/07 12:03 am

Much of it comes from heavy-duty trucks and buses that burn diesel.





Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids savings accounts, report .. - 30/06 11:38 pm

Sources suggest Musk may be mulling big donation to Trump Accounts.





Florida bans local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals - 30/06 9:40 pm

Gov. Ron DeSantis calls it a crackdown on "radical climate policies."





US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking .. - 30/06 6:05 am

Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.





South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots - 30/06 5:09 am

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.





US renewable boom passes key milestone in April - 30/06 4:12 am

Small-scale solar helped renewables hit nearly triple coal's generation in the US.





Supreme Court ruling guts governments use of geofence warrants - 30/06 4:04 am

SCOTUS falls short of deeming geofence warrants unconstitutional, though.





Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we dont own .. - 30/06 3:10 am

Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.





Ozone loss was a thing even before CFCs were widely used - 30/06 3:00 am

With todays scientific tools, the problem could have been spotted in the 1950s.





Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data - 30/06 2:21 am

The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.





Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody - 30/06 1:59 am

But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.





Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets - 30/06 1:48 am

Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets.





F1 in Austria: Starts off exciting, then goes the opposite way - 30/06 12:04 am

A heatwave, engine upgrades, plus power levels for the next two seasons.





Wildwood featurette lifts the veil on building its stop-motion world - 29/06 11:43 pm

Director Travis Knight is also the creative mind behind 2016's Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings .





In a bold move, Rocket Lab acquires Iridium Communications - 29/06 11:33 pm

"We believe this will be one of the most transformative deals in the space industry."





Think tank games out how to respond to disaster scenarios in space warfare - 29/06 11:21 pm

"Where does the threshold live that an action necessitates some proportional reaction?"





Comcast is splitting its media and broadband properties - 29/06 9:25 pm

NBCUniversal and Sky will be spun off into separate companies.





NASA's X-59 "frankenjet" tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom - 29/06 6:30 pm

NASAs quiet supersonic flight tests could eventually go on a national tour.





Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? - 29/06 2:49 am

Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, its not acceptable.





Apple and Audi alumni have made a luxe EV based on the moon buggy - 27/06 7:07 pm

The Amble One is a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy designed for luxury resorts.





South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors" - 27/06 6:19 am

Half-million strong military will train on drones as universal combat tool.





Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms. - 27/06 5:43 am

His doctors went looking for cancer, then they saw the worms' heads.





Streaming services obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in .. - 27/06 5:12 am

Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.





Russian citizens told "switch to Android" after Apple blocks key Russian .. - 27/06 4:58 am

Russian government lashes out at Apple's "bizarre" decisions.





NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for .. - 27/06 4:04 am

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.




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Isu membabitkan bekas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak masih menjadi liabiliti kepada Barisan Nasional (BN) dalam menghadapi Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN) Johor, kata calon Pakatan Harapan (PH) DUN Panti, Ahmad Daniel Sharudin. Menurut Ahmad Daniel, pengundi terutama golongan muda kini lebih ..
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Mbappe, Dembele bawa Perancis ke separuh akhir - Hotfm
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Samsung is reportedly working on an AI accelerator .. - Gsmarena
According to a new report from Korea, Samsung is planning to enter a new market very soon. The company is said to be working on an AI accelerator chip for PCs. It's codenamed Gaia and it's using a 4nm process. It comes with an optimized NPU architecture to enable more efficient AI computing on ..
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Will NATO get involved in securing Strait of Hormuz? - Aljazeera
Iran war overshadows defence alliance's summit in Turkiye.
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UMW Toyota jual lebih 36,200 unit kenderaan separuh .. - Careta
Presiden UMW Toyota Motor, Datuk K Ravindran, berkata pencapaian pada suku kedua itu menunjukkan keyakinan berterusan pelanggan terhadap rangkaian produk Toyota serta pilihan mobiliti yang ditawarkan syarikat. Beliau berkata, komitmen Toyota bukan sekadar memperkenalkan produk baharu, malah