The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
A spokesperson for Cognitec says they could not comment on their work with the Home Office;…
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Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System
The study only covers living arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks, Stewart said, and doesn’t include dead fungal…
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The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets
For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new…
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The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys
The main antagonist of Toy Story 5, in theaters this summer, is a green, frog-shaped kids’…
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Great white sharks are overheating
This will disrupt ecosystems as mesotherms are typically apex predators that exert disproportionate control on species…
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AI models are terrible at betting on soccer—especially xAI Grok
“Every frontier model we evaluated lost money over the season and many experienced ruin,” the authors…
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Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
Another signal of declining enforcement: Through September of last year, the EPA issued $41 million in…
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Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.
Critics argue that age verification has never been about protecting children but rather scrubbing porn from…
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How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade
In many countries, CBAM is also accelerating interest in renewable energy and greener industrial processes. Some…
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Achieving lasting remission for HIV
A particularly promising finding of the RIO trial was that the antibodies also affected dormant HIV…
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Inside the marketplace for vaccine medical exemptions
“They’re very blatant,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Law San Francisco who studies vaccine…
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Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change
For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales, and blue whales,…
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How different mushrooms learned the same psychedelic trick
Magic mushrooms have been used in traditional ceremonies and for recreational purposes for thousands of years….
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Microsoft’s Entra ID vulnerabilities could have been catastrophic
“Microsoft built security controls around identity like conditional access and logs, but this internal impression token…
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The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance”
Doing more with less? Although the Trump administration aims to accelerate nuclear energy through executive orders,…
