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Musk’s Delta Taunt Exposes a Bigger Power Problem
Elon Musk’s declaration that Delta’s chief executive would lose his job turns a satellite-internet sales dispute into a question about concentrated power. The …
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Russia's Plague Secrecy Turns a Death Into a Cover-Up
A 28-year-old lab technician in Siberia has died of plague after reportedly breaking a test tube at a Soviet-era institute built to study the disease. Nearly 2…
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France’s School Revolt Cannot Be Policed Away
France’s education protests have become a public-order crisis, but calling the entire movement a riot erases the dispute underneath: overcrowded classes, missi…
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AI Just Got Everything It Needs to Freestyle Nonstop, Forever
Nobody has yet built an AI voice that freestyles nonstop for a week over beats it invents as it goes, but every component of that machine is already live somew…
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Tennessee Botches an Execution. Nobody Trained to Fix It.
A Tennessee execution team pumped two full doses of pentobarbital into Christa Pike on Wednesday night and still couldn't kill her. She is now in a hospital be…
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UK Borrowing Costs Hit Highest Level Since 1998
Thirty-year UK government bonds broke through 6% on Thursday morning for the first time since 1998, dragging the stock market down with them. Behind the jargon…
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Diet Drug Billions Could End World Hunger. They Won't
Eli Lilly is on course to book up to 83 billion dollars in revenue this year selling appetite-suppressing injections to the world's wealthiest patients, while …
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Same Hunger Ads, Richer Billionaires, Hungrier World
A toddler having her arm measured for malnutrition under a blue GIVE £2 A MONTH banner looks almost identical to the charity appeals that ran on television in …
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AI Firms Built Minds Even They Cannot Read
Every chatbot answer you get is produced by billions of numbers multiplying against each other in patterns nobody, not even the engineers who built the system,…
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A Free, Local Alternative to Buffer's Subscription Trap
A new open-source app called Kyrelo wants to do what Buffer and TweetDelete do, scheduling posts and mass-deleting old tweets, without a monthly bill or a comp…
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Beyond Levi Roots: The Dragons' Den Millions Nobody Mentions
Reggae Reggae Sauce is the story everyone remembers, but a modest £70,000 pork scratchings deal is quietly worth more today than most of the Den's headline pit…
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Did DNA Kill The Killers?
The men who once terrorised entire regions for years at a time have all but vanished from American life, and the last one caught made national headlines for ho…
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LG TVs Are Spying On You. Kill The Setting.
That LG television in the living room has been quietly building a profile of everything watched on it, and this month a viral investigation forced the company …
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Bangkok Drowns Again While Its Flood Plan Gathers Dust
Nearly 300 millimetres of rain in 48 hours has put every one of Bangkok's 50 districts under a disaster declaration, forcing thousands into school gyms and tem…
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The Sun Keeps Hitting Us and Nobody Notices
A fast stream of solar wind pouring out of a hole in the Sun's atmosphere has been buffeting Earth's magnetic field all week, nudging conditions to active leve…
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Trip's CBD Cans Are Legal, Not Officially Approved
Every Trip can on a supermarket shelf boasts CBD (cannabidiol) as its headline ingredient, yet not a single CBD product has ever been formally authorised as sa…
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Hugging Face: The AI App Store Nvidia Just Bought for $13bn
Hugging Face is the place almost every AI model, dataset and demo app on the internet actually lives, a kind of GitHub for machine learning that quietly became…
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Suno Can Clone Your Favorite Song. Everyone's Suing.
AI researchers have built systems that score a song's global appeal before a single human hears it, and Suno's newest tools let anyone upload a track they love…
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AI Is Quietly Cracking History's Coldest Cases
A machine cracked a 370-year-old cipher in 44 minutes this month. Researchers have read a sealed Roman scroll for the first time since Vesuvius buried it. Hist…
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Zodiac’s Occult Legend Is Not a Solution
The Zodiac Killer turned murder into a public spectacle of coded letters and threats, leaving an enduring mystery behind five documented killings in 1968 and 1…