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Our world faces 'unprecedented' spike in electricity demand (theregister.com)

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Uncontacted Brazil indigenous tribe man emerges; villagers demonstrate a lighter (apnews.com)

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Energy demand in datacenter 'capital of the world' VA nearly doubled in 2024 2H (theregister.com)

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I retracted part of my PhD dissertation (nature.com)

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Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier? (theregister.com)

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Critical PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury (theregister.com)

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AWS vacates its board seat at European cloud crew CISPE (theregister.com)

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Charged over alleged New IRA terrorism activity linked to cops' spilled data (theregister.com)

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Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike (theregister.com)

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Teenagers AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional, always there (theconversation.com)

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More victims of China's Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos now hit via Cisco bugs (theregister.com)

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US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor (theregister.com)

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WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before company splits (theregister.com)

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Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI) (theregister.com)

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Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees (nature.com)

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North Korea targets crypto developers via NPM supply chain attack (theregister.com)

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IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams in push to dump staff for AI (theregister.com)

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[dupe] Judge ends years-long court battle, clearing the way for Right to Repair law (boston.com)

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Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un (theregister.com)

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Ransomware isn't always about the money: Government spies have objectives, too (theregister.com)

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Common factors link rise in pedestrian deaths–fixing them will be tough (arstechnica.com)

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Russia's Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs (theregister.com)

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Greenland's genetic architecture shaped by demography, structure and selection (nature.com)

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Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP (theregister.com)

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Ignorance is bliss when you're drowning in information (theregister.com)

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Probe finds US Coast Guard has left maritime cybersecurity adrift (theregister.com)

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Startups Gamble on Fusion Energy (undark.org)

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Hierarchical graph network for propaganda detection in social media news text (nature.com)

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NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV (theconversation.com)

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An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models (nature.com)

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Aukus blasts holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider (theregister.com)

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Japan can be a science heavyweight once more if it rethinks funding (nature.com)

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Oracle makes Fusion apps available on EU Sovereign Cloud (theregister.com)

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London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds (theregister.com)

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All your 8Base are belong to us: Ransomware crew busted in global sting (theregister.com)

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Mistral Gets Down to Business (techcrunch.com)

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Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins (nature.com)

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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They're Trying to Publish It Anyway (nytimes.com)

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Reclassification is making US tech job losses look worse than they are (theregister.com)

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Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege (nytimes.com)

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You Can Buy a Rivian Van Now Because Amazon Flaked on Their Contract (jalopnik.com)

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The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway (theregister.com)

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Taiwan's legacy chip industry contemplates future as China eats into share (reuters.com)

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BlocPower promised to help electrify Ithaca. Now it has ended its support (wskg.org)

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A Costly Dissonance: Putting America Last in Climate Resilience (nrdc.org)

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Europe 'not in the AI race today,' French President Macron says (cnn.com)

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The impact of risks on energy transition: the role of natural resource rents (nature.com)

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At What Distance Can Earth's Technosignatures Be Detected by Present Technology? (iop.org)

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Ukraine's rare earths are key to its bargaining power (dw.com)

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University digital media dynamics of brand visibility in the attention economy (nature.com)

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Gen Z unlikely savior of Japan's economy through 'oshikatsu' (asahi.com)

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Sleep on it: exploring the psychology of sleep amidst contemporary challenges (nature.com)

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Obscure clean energy metals caught in the crosshairs of the US-China trade war (grist.org)

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Art museums in Shikoku deemed likely victims of a master art forger (asahi.com)

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Generative AI models are known to amplify prejudice – can they be fixed? (france24.com)

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Comparing income from a high school, college, and selective college education (stlouisfed.org)

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Tech megacaps plan to spend more than $300B in 2025 as AI race intensifies (cnbc.com)

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Does DOGE really have what it takes to usefully tackle Uncle Sam's tech spend? (theregister.com)

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'Backsliding': most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears (theguardian.com)

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France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near US $500B bet (theregister.com)

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Japan sparked Trump's 40-year love affair with tariffs (bbc.com)

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[flagged] Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? A security expert explains the dangers (theconversation.com)

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Supersizing vehicles offers minimal safety benefits – but substantial dangers (iihs.org)

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Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden's EV charger build-out (theregister.com)

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DOGE follows pattern – and turns attention to Social Security Administration (semafor.com)

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Doge can't use student loan data to dismantle the Education Dept., lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

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Palantir's Billionaire CEO Just Can't Stop Talking About Killing People (gizmodo.com)

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SoftBank set to invest $40B in OpenAI at $260B valuation (cnbc.com)

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Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data (theregister.com)

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Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to insatiable AI thirst (theregister.com)

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Federal judge tightens DOGE leash over critical Treasury payment system access (theregister.com)

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AI datasets have human values blind spots − new research (theconversation.com)

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DeepSeek is "TikTok on steroids" senator warns amid push for government-wide ban (arstechnica.com)

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Dems want answers on national security risks posed by hiring freeze, DOGE (theregister.com)

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When it comes to AI ROI, IT decision-makers not convinced (theregister.com)

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One language family took over the world: ancient DNA traces its spread (nature.com)

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Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M (theregister.com)

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Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon (theregister.com)

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Uber CEO warns robotaxis can't find a fast route to commercial viability (theregister.com)

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Emergence of collective oscillations in massive human crowds (nature.com)

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The words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump's orders (washingtonpost.com)

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Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening up to political appointees (theregister.com)

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Netgear fixes critical bugs as Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge (theregister.com)

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Priced out of belonging? Insufficient concessions on membership fees (royalsocietypublishing.org)

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Something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times (theregister.com)

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Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies (theregister.com)

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Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of AI (theregister.com)

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Does AI need all that money? (Tech giants say yes) (theguardian.com)

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OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit (theregister.com)

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Climate change target of 2C is 'dead', says renowned climate scientist (theguardian.com)

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A Look at Federal Health Data Taken Offline (kff.org)

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Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority' says CEO (theregister.com)

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Half degree rise in global warming will triple area of Earth too hot for humans (phys.org)

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Intel knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024 (theregister.com)

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8M Requests Later, We Made SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur (watchtowr.com)

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SoftBank Is Betting Billions That OpenAI's Agents Will Automate Work (gizmodo.com)

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South Carolina Gave Scout $1.3B, yet Taxpayers Can't Buy Its EVs in SC (carscoops.com)

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Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains (nature.com)

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Starlink profit growing rapidly as it faces a moment of promise and peril (arstechnica.com)

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OpenAI says its models are more persuasive than 82 percent of Reddit users (arstechnica.com)

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