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Woman loses right arm after alligator attack in Florida river
The woman was dragged underwater after trying to fend off the alligator.
Military satellite deal could set stage for new battle over cabinet secrecy
Conservatives want to see the details of the $2.3-billion military satellite contract with Telesat. At issue is Prime Minister Mark Carney’s friendship with Telesat's CEO and whether he was properly screened from the decision. Ottawa and Telesat insist the deal was rigorously handled at arm's length.
Can Substack rise above the controversies?
Substack created a pioneering economic and cultural engine for a new generation of writers. Nearly 10 years in, its reputation isn't so simple. Between the injection of an algorithm into the mix and ongoing controversies over content moderation, where does Substack sit today?
Sunken Nazi warships are resurfacing as Europe's drought deepens
Nazi German warships scuttled in the Danube River during the Second World War are resurfacing as water levels plunge a striking sign of the extreme heat and drought gripping Europe this summer.
A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000+ people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns (ABC)
ABC: A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000+ people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns By national AI reporter Cam Wilson
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They Accused a Brooklyn Doctor of Abuse. He Got a License in New Jersey.
Some former patients, many of whom are Orthodox Jewish women, are seeking financial damages in two lawsuits, but say they also want to stop the doctor from opening a new practice.
PatronView's owner details a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35,000 Claude crawls per referred user, and Amazon's bot referred none
Nick Gray / PatronView: PatronView's owner details a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35,000 Claude crawls per referred user, and Amazon's bot referred none A year of fighti
Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none
Nick Gray / PatronView: Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none A year of figh
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Spy Cams On UK Navy Drones Secretly Transmitted Data To China
Spy Cams On UK Navy Drones Secretly Transmitted Data To China An investigation into surveillance equipment fitted to Royal Navy unmanned vessels has raised concerns over military supply-chain security after cameras containing Chinese-made components were found communicating with an internet address in China. The camera on top of a K3 Scout uncrewed vessel, used by the Royal Navy in Portsmouth harbour. Parts of the camera were made in China. Via The Telegraph The cameras were instal...
webAI Releases TwIL-LM: A 1.7B and 3B Formal-Logic Model Family for Autoformalization on Local Hardware
webAI has released TwIL-LM, a family of formal-logic models at 1.7B and 3B parameters that translate English into first-order logic and check whether conclusions follow from premises. The 3B runs on C
Florida woman accused of faking cancer to scam hundreds out of $40K, police say
A Florida woman was arrested after authorities said she falsely claimed to have cancer and scammed more than 200 people out of more than $40,000 to pay off personal debts.Maribeth Ellen Jones, 51, of Bonita Springs, has been charged with grand theft between $20,000 and $100,000. She turned herself in at the Naples Jail Center this week after detectives obtained a warrant for her arrest on the second-degree felony charge, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.Jones, who worked as an ac...
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After Mass Migrant Invasion, 5 Girls Under 14 Reportedly Raped In Ceuta
After Mass Migrant Invasion, 5 Girls Under 14 Reportedly Raped In Ceuta Via Remix News, Health sources have confirmed that Ceuta University Hospital has treated at least five girls over the past week for alleged rapes following the mass migrant invasion of Ceuta last month. All the girls are Moroccan and were reportedly under the age of 14 when they were raped, with an emergency doctor verifying the cases and noting that many of these minors are sleeping on the street because of...
Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand Singapore upgraded its 2026 economic
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The ultimate culture clash: Misbehaving foreigners, communist policing
NYT: Vietnam is grappling with a surge in visitors, testing its criminal justice system.
[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
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Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's
An anonymous reader shares a report from The Conversation, written by Hatim Sharif, a civil and environmental engineer who has "spent more than two decades staring at maps" and spatial data. Sharif finds one connection especially fascinating: the link between spatial reasoning and why taxi drivers seem to have lower rates of Alzheimer's. From the report: Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer's disease. That was the surprising result o...
Anthropic says new Claude models in the EU will add watermarks to text and C2PA metadata to files, to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update older models
Thomas Claburn / The Register: Anthropic says new Claude models in the EU will add watermarks to text and C2PA metadata to files, to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update older models EU rul
Anthropic says Claude models in the EU will now add invisible watermarks to generated text and C2PA metadata to generated files, to comply with the EU AI Act
Thomas Claburn / The Register: Anthropic says Claude models in the EU will now add invisible watermarks to generated text and C2PA metadata to generated files, to comply with the EU AI Act EU rules
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Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI Company is racing
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How A Fake IRGC Quote On Nuclear Weapons Reached Netanyahu's Speech
How A Fake IRGC Quote On Nuclear Weapons Reached Netanyahu's Speech Via Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated an alleged quote attributed to a senior Iranian commander about Tehran's determination to develop nuclear weapons, even though the statement had no identified primary source and was later traced to an Indian pro-Israel account on X. An investigation by Israeli news outlet Ynet and New York Times journalist Ronen Bergman found that Netanyahu use...
President Trump warns FIFA will pay a massive price if it ousts chief Gianni Infantino
President Donald Trump is handing out a big red card to FIFA’s bosses, warning soccer’s top execs they’d be out of their minds to dump embattled president Gianni Infantino.Taking to Truth Social, Trump went to bat for Infantino, who faces an all-out revolt from global soccer leaders after a disastrous scheme to sell off a chunk of the men’s World Cup to private equity investors."FIFA would be making a terrible mistake if, for any reason, they even considered replacing President Gianni Infantino,...
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Gun Owners Of America Lawsuit Strikes Down Parts Of National Firearms Act
Gun Owners Of America Lawsuit Strikes Down Parts Of National Firearms Act via Gun Owners of America, On August 5, we at Gun Owners of America won our "One Big Beautiful Lawsuit," against the registration requirements of the National Firearms Act at the district level in Texas. This is definitely one of the biggest wins for gun rights - ever. 🚨BREAKING🚨 In GOA's case, a federal court just stuck down NFA registration for: ❌Suppressors ❌Short-Barreled Rifles ❌Short-Barreled Shotg...
DiJonai Carrington, who declared 'White privilege' after ejection, plays vs Storm as WNBA remains silent
The WNBA's silence regarding DiJonai Carrington, who declared "White privilege" after her ejection during Saturday’s game against the Indiana Fever after smacking Sophie Cunningham in the face, meant she could play Monday night for the Chicago Sky against the Seattle Storm. With the league not announcing any discipline for the veteran guard after her Flagrant 2 foul against the Fever over the weekend, Carrington checked into the game with 5:21 left in the first quarter. There was a loud cheer co...
Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year compute deal worth $9.1B with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus; RIOT jumps ~25%
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year compute deal worth $9.1B with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus; RIOT jumps ~25% Anthropic PB
Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, $9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, $9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours Anthropic PBC
Trump used catering truck, Air Force One decoy to evade Iran threat: report
President Donald Trump secretly boarded a third, smaller U.S. military aircraft using an airport catering truck as cover to depart the NATO summit in Turkey in July while using an older Air Force One jet as a decoy, according to reports.Citing an official and other material it reviewed, The Washington Post reported that the undercover maneuver took place at Ankara airport amid a credible Iranian threat against the president.Trump had arrived in the Turkish capital on July 8 aboard a brand-new Bo...
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North Korea Battles Record Heat By Prescribing Dog Soup And Propaganda
North Korea Battles Record Heat By Prescribing Dog Soup And Propaganda In "that's enough internet for today" news... North Korea has apparently found the answer to record-breaking summer heat: dog-meat soup, chicken broth and stories about how hard Kim Jong Un sweats, according to Reuters. Pyongyang hit 98 degrees, on Thursday, which state media said was the highest temperature recorded in the capital. With tropical nights piling up, the regime has rolled out an unusually enthusia...
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‘This is very strange’: Ancient smallpox may have been less deadly
NYT: Ancient smallpox DNA reveals how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.
11-year-old goes trick-or-treating for his summer birthday | The Moment
Leah Farrow tells The National about the moment her son, Soren, went trick or treating in July for his 11th birthday in Huntsville, Ala.
Fauci texts suggest officials were ‘too slow to pivot' amid pandemic, says Dr Marc Siegel
Newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci have sparked fresh questions about his handling of evolving COVID-19 evidence, according to Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst. The texts are part of an initial batch of communications from Fauci's government-issued cellphone released Monday by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Rand Paul, R-Ky. The messages shed light on private discussions between Fauci and other top health officials as they navigated evolving questions around the c...
Sources: Apple remains on track to launch a glass-centric design overhaul of the iPhone Pro line in 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple remains on track to launch a glass-centric design overhaul of the iPhone Pro line in 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL Apple Inc. i
Sources: Apple remains on track for a glass-centric design overhaul of iPhone Pro's line for 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple remains on track for a glass-centric design overhaul of iPhone Pro's line for 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL Apple Inc. is still
Quinnen Williams agrees to $105.9M contract extension with Cowboys, locking him in through 2030 season
The Dallas Cowboys and veteran defensive tackle Quinnen Williams agreed to a three-year extension prior to the start of the 2026 NFL season that will make him one of the highest-paid players at his position.Williams agreed to an extension worth $105.9 million, including $101 million in guaranteed money and $63.35 million guaranteed at signing. He is also getting a signing bonus worth $31.85 million.Williams, who has made the last four Pro Bowls, was traded to the Cowboys before the deadline last...
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A typo by San Francisco police led to a violent arrest of an innocent driver, officials say
A police watchdog found that San Francisco police officers threw a man to the ground and pepper-sprayed him after they entered the wrong license plate into their computer.
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Trump Signs Executive Order Calling For Spacing Out Childhood Vaccines
Trump Signs Executive Order Calling For Spacing Out Childhood Vaccines Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 10 calling for spacing out childhood vaccines. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R) and Jayme Leagh Franklin with the The Conservateur (L), signs an executive order calling for childhood vaccine shots to be spaced out into separate visits during...
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Rabbis Plead With Mamdani to Tone Down His Anti-Israel Messaging
In a private meeting at City Hall, an invited group of rabbis told Mayor Zohran Mamdani that his relationship with Jewish New Yorkers needed to change.
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Beloved Big Sur destinations under evacuation orders as Timber fire burns more than 1,700 acres
A wildfire in Big Sur has burned 1,700 acres and spurred evacuations that encompass iconic destinations such as Nepenthe restaurant, the Henry Miller Memorial Library and the Alila Ventana resort.
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Monday's Powerball jackpot is the 8th-largest ever. Here's how high it could go
Four of the top 10 Powerball jackpots have had tickets sold in California. Here's how big Monday's jackpot has grown.
Dem Gov Maura Healey signs sweeping Massachusetts bill allowing abortions up to birth
Democratic Gov. Maura Healey was met with applause and smiles as she signed away Massachusetts' gestational limits on abortion, making the deep-blue state the 10th to permit the procedure up to birth.Under the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, health care workers will have greater discretion in determining whether to perform an abortion later in pregnancy, without facing legal penalties under the state's previous restrictions.Healey said the law is intended to ensure families facing medic...
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Influencer charged in sugar daddy rip-offs is denied diversion; judge questions her truthfulness
After reviewing extensive mental health examinations records, Judge Diego H. Edber questioned Adva Lavie's truthfulness and denied her lawyer's request to direct her to a diversion program.
Mamdani’s luxury-home tax rollout derailed for now as judge delivers win to NYC homeowners over massive list
A New York judge slammed the brakes Monday on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial rollout of a new tax on luxury second homes, ordering City Hall to take down a controversial list exposing the names, addresses and property values of more than 900,000 New York City homeowners.Judge Wayne Ozzi temporarily restrained the Mamdani administration from moving ahead based on the disputed property roll or mailed notices and barred the city from enforcing its looming deadlines against homeowners caught u...
SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from Twitter's $1.08B in Q2 2022; Elon Musk said he would take X's annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from Twitter's $1.08B in Q2 2022; Elon Musk said he would take X's annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 When SpaceX file
SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 When SpaceX fil
Mick Jagger proves he still has the ‘Moves Like Jagger’ in viral dance video
Mick Jagger wowed his fans with his dance moves at 83 after the singer shared a recent video of himself partying at a club.On Sunday, The Rolling Stones frontman uploaded a clip in which he was seen energetically waving his hands over his head and shaking his hips on a crowded dance floor under a disco ball as his band's new song "Mr. Charm" played."Enjoying the summer, hope you are too," Jagger wrote in the caption.ROLLING STONES' WILD SEX TALLY INCLUDED ONE MEMBER WHO STOPPED COUNTING AT 1,800...
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The Tactic Of AOC And Her Allies To Giggle Away The 'Craziness' Of Woke-Era Abuses Should Not Be Tolerated
The Tactic Of AOC And Her Allies To Giggle Away The 'Craziness' Of Woke-Era Abuses Should Not Be Tolerated Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com, Many Democratic Party candidates emerging on what one might call the populist left are finding success in primaries across the country. But most of them have a shared liability: they were fully on board with the worst excesses and abuses of the "peak wokeness" that emerged in the wake of George Floyd's 2020 killing, endur...
Suspect arrested at Kim Kardashian's mansion after stolen vehicle, break-in reported in Hidden Hills
Kim Kardashian's Hidden Hills mansion was the target of a break-in on Sunday after a vehicle was stolen from the property, officials confirmed to Fox News Digital.Deputies from the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's station responded to the 24800 block of Long Valley Road in the affluent enclave before 4 p.m. on a residential burglary call where they located an adult male and placed him under arrest.Kardashian, 45, and her four children do not currently live in the home which is under renovation, Fox N...
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Trump Golfs Under Missile Shield As Avenger Guards Bedminster Fairway
Trump Golfs Under Missile Shield As Avenger Guards Bedminster Fairway President Trump was spotted over the weekend at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, under a notably elevated air-defense posture. An AN/TWQ-1 Avenger positioned near the fairway provided last-line missile defense, indicating that security planners considered a low-altitude airborne attack plausible. The Avenger's presence indicates a planned, layered air-defense posture around the president, c...
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Judge’s Ruling on Second-Home Tax Deals Temporary Setback to Mamdani
A judge sided with homeowners who had sued New York City and argued that the introduction of the tax was mishandled. The city moved to appeal, meaning the rollout can proceed.
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Zuckerberg manifesto sketches out Meta's ambitions for world-changing AI technology
Zuckerberg manifesto sketches out Meta's ambitions for world-changing AI technology
Joe Burrow spotted hanging out with a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model after practice
Justin Herbert is not alone. There was another high-profile NFL quarterback spotted hanging out with a woman on the practice field at training camp.Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was seen over the weekend chilling on the field with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Olivia Ponton after practice. That's where the similarities end.Unlike Herbert, who has been public with his relationship with his now-fiancee Madison Beer, Burrow has taken a different route.NOTHING TO SEE HERE: COWBOYS QU...
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Trump boarded secret flight from Turkey to avoid Iranian assassination plot
The clandestine mission, even kept from Trump staff, was revealed to the Washington Post.
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Ex-DSA Member Blows Whistle Over "Mob Tactics" Used On Dissenters, Debates Over Levels-of-Leninism
Ex-DSA Member Blows Whistle Over "Mob Tactics" Used On Dissenters, Debates Over Levels-of-Leninism Via RealClearPolitics, Former Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organizer Jake Altman argues that over the past 10-15 years, the organization has transformed from a relatively pragmatic working-class social-democratic group into a much more radical movement driven by younger activists and open to more extreme ideas. He describes internal pressure against dissenters, increasing ...
Long list of embarrassing WNBA incidents is what happens when sports leagues made politics their primary focus
After years of being mostly ignored, the WNBA suddenly finds itself at the center of the sports world. And it's for all the "wrong" reasons.For a league that's never turned a profit, or even really come close, the WNBA received an incredible gift with Caitlin Clark. Fan interest in seeing Clark led to an influx of revenue, viewership, and merchandise sales, to the point where the players were able to bargain for better benefits and perks, making their quality of life significantly better. All th...
OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.
As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
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Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance
Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance
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Colombia’s new president has been immediately put to the test
NYT: He'd never held office until Friday. Now, he's at the helm of a major disaster.
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Judge Pauses Rollout of Second-Home Tax, Dealing Setback to Mamdani
A group of homeowners had sued New York City, arguing that the introduction of the tax was mishandled. After the judge issued an order pausing the rollout, the city said it would appeal.
Jessica Alba rocks animal-print bikini as she shares glimpse into summer with Danny Ramirez
Jessica Alba is packing plenty into the final stretch of summer.The 45-year-old actress shared a series of photos highlighting how she has spent August so far, from bikini days and time with her family to golf outings and moments with boyfriend Danny Ramirez."August so far 🍒👙🌺💗," Alba captioned the Instagram carousel.JESSICA ALBA STUNS IN RED CORSET AND LACE MINI DRESS AS SHE CELEBRATES HER 45TH BIRTHDAYShe opened the post with a close-up selfie in an animal-print string bikini, posing indoors w...
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"He Flipped": Family Warned Police Before Man With 9 Priors Filmed Street Attacks
"He Flipped": Family Warned Police Before Man With 9 Priors Filmed Street Attacks Relatives of a Charlotte man accused of attacking women in public say his behavior had become increasingly unpredictable and violent, prompting them to contact authorities before his arrest, according to the New York Post. 32 year old Di-Quan Schafar Hunt was taken into custody Thursday after disturbing videos circulated on social media showing confrontations with women on Charlotte streets. Accord...
Alberta to review emergency alert system following multi-week search for Calgary boy
After a multi-week search in July for Parker, an 11-year-old Calgary boy, ended after he was confirmed dead, the provincial government is assessing whether improvements are needed to its emergency alert system.
'Pod Save America' accused of temporarily deleting clip critical of Piker after ex-Biden staffer amplified it
Crooked Media’s "Pod Save America" was accused by a former Biden staffer of deleting a social media clip that was critical of far-left streamer Hasan Piker, and the liberal podcast reposted a longer version after hours of backlash. "Pod Save America," the popular progressive podcast helmed by ex-Obama staffers, welcomed MS NOW's Chris Hayes for Sunday’s episode to discuss the state of Democratic politics with guest host Alex Wagner. Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s ties to Piker came up,...
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My First Encounter With Trans
My First Encounter With Trans Authored by Richard C. Crandall via American Thinker, My first encounter with trans was in the early 1950s, when Christine Jorgensen became the first widely known person to undergo "sex reassignment" surgery. I remember some of my peers mocking Christine by threatening to swap the feminine lips and masculine mustache between Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. After some laughter, eye-rolling, and snide smiles, seven-year-olds settled the issue: It was ridiculou...
Michigan Dem Senate nominee comes under fire over resurfaced blog post linking football to 'toxic masculinity'
Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, is taking heat after resurfaced writings exposed his sweeping attacks on traditional masculinity and U.S. sports culture.According to a report by The Midwesterner, El-Sayed authored a 2021 Substack post taking aim at the gridiron in the wake of former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden's resignation over leaked emails.In the post, the progressive favorite laid out an aggressive critique of male sports culture, writing that "the toxic masculin...
Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase
Claude / @claudeai: Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase We're making Claude Sonn
Iran installs new war chiefs as Tehran signals ‘prolonged confrontation,’ expert warns
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei formally appointed six senior military commanders Monday, cementing a wartime reshuffle as Tehran rebuilds a command structure impacted by months of U.S. and Israeli strikes.The appointments, announced by Khamenei’s office and promoted on social media, fill posts across Iran’s armed forces, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij paramilitary force, with a counterterrorism expert warning the timing and language of the decrees signal Tehr...
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Seven Needles, 800,000 Haystacks
A quasar is a supermassive black hole in the act of feeding, and it’s so bright that it drowns out the galaxy it sits in. That is a nuisance if you want to weigh the galaxy and weighing it is exactly what you need to do to understand how black holes and the host galaxies grew up together. There is a way round it however, catch a quasar whose galaxy happens to be bending the light of something further away, and the bending betrays the mass. The catch is that such alignments are vanishingly rare,...
Hiker escapes after being attacked by grizzly bear in backcountry near Pemberton, B.C.
This is the second grizzly bear attack near Pemberton in just one week.
Unlicensed NYC boat operator allegedly ignored safety warnings before mother, baby died in capsizing: feds
A New Jersey man accused of running illegal boat tours allegedly ignored multiple safety warnings before an overcrowded New York Harbor excursion turned deadly, killing a 5-month-old baby and her 27-year-old mother.Manuel Hernandez, 46, of Manville, was charged Monday with two counts of misconduct and neglect of a ship officer resulting in death after the Yamaha AR210 he was piloting capsized Saturday night.Hernandez appeared Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo on the two charg...
Top Senate Dem’s new tax idea gets torched as critics warn nearly every American could pay
The top Democratic lawmaker on the Senate Finance Committee has floated increasing taxes on data centers, a move critics say could raise costs on services used by practically all Americans.Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released a white paper proposal last week calling to end tax incentives for data centers and to impose an ongoing tax on data centers operating in the United States. Critics of Wyden’s proposal argue that the costs of the new tax could ultimately be borne by all Americans by increasing ...
Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China
A routine security assessment found that cameras aboard Royal Navy Kraken unmanned surface vessels were sending "heartbeat" signals to an IP address in China. "A thorough investigation found no evidence of MoD data or systems being accessed, compromised or transmitted externally," said a Ministry of Defense spokesperson. "Our assurance and testing processes are designed to identify and address potential vulnerabilities early, and we continue to undertake routine security activity across our syst...
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The Odds of Finding Water on Mars
Mars has plenty of water, and almost all of it is in the wrong place. The poles are rich in ice, the equator, where you would actually want to land, has none within reach. That leaves the mid-latitudes, and until now the honest answer about what lies beneath them has been a bit of a shrug. Two new studies from the Planetary Science Institute have changed the shape of that answer. Rather than simply asking whether the data are consistent with buried ice, they have started calculating the odds and...
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Study Finds 93% Of Avocado Oil Chips Contain Other Oils. There Is A Solution ...
Study Finds 93% Of Avocado Oil Chips Contain Other Oils. There Is A Solution ... A new University of California, Davis, study found that a shocking number of avocado oil-labeled chips at the supermarket, marketed as a healthier alternative to toxic seed-oil chips, might not be made with pure avocado oil and, in fact, contain other oils. UC Davis researchers tested 54 avocado oil-labeled products purchased from California supermarkets and online retailers in 2025 and 2026 and found...
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The Telescope That Points Itself
Time on a large professional telescope is one of the scarcest resources in science. Astronomers wait months for a few hours, and every one of those hours is a running argument with the weather, the Moon and the atmosphere. Point at the wrong target at the wrong moment and the data comes back soft, washed out, or useless, with the next chance half a year away. A team has now handed that argument to a machine. Their system was trained not on the rules astronomers use but on what astronomers actual...
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Fans are cramming Undertale into EarthBound's Super Nintendo engine
Undertale, an indie RPG released in 2015 after a successful Kickstarter campaign by developer Toby Fox, has become nothing short of a pop culture icon. Since its release, critics and audiences fell in love with its memorable characters, humor, illustrator Temmie Chang's art style, bullet-hell-meets-RPG gameplay, storytelling, and of course, the soundtrack. Read the rest The post Fans are cramming Undertale into EarthBound's Super Nintendo engine appeared first on Boing Boing.
Apple Reportedly Testing Controversial Chinese Chips as Memory Supply Crunch Intensifies
Apple is allegedly testing chips from a chipmaker that the Trump Admin considers a Chinese military company.
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Secrets Of Tupac Shakur Murder To Be Revealed As Jury Selection Begins
Secrets Of Tupac Shakur Murder To Be Revealed As Jury Selection Begins Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Prosecutors are hopeful of obtaining the first conviction in relation to the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur—a crime that has been unsolved for 30 years—with jury selection due to start in Las Vegas on Aug. 10. Shakur, who was 25 when he died, is widely considered to be one of the most influential rappers in the history of the genre. He had five No. 1 albums on th...
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Captain Charged in N.Y.C. Accident That Killed Mother and Daughter
Manuel Hernandez knew there were no life vests for children when he allowed an infant on board, according to a federal complaint. The child and her mother died in the accident.
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Judge Pauses Rollout of N.Y.C. Second-Home Tax, Dealing Blow to Mamdani
A group of homeowners had sued the city, arguing that the introduction of the tax was mishandled. After the judge issued an order pausing the rollout, the city said it would appeal.
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Judge Grants Justice Dept. Request to Dismiss Case Against Indian Tycoon
U.S. prosecutors were pursuing charges against Gautam Adani, India’s richest man, until the Trump Justice Department moved to drop the case against him.
AOC tries to laugh off 'crazy' woke era as thing of the past, but conservatives aren't amused
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., dismissed her and other socialist politicians' far-left rhetoric as a thing of the past, but conservative opposition was not persuaded.ABC's "This Week" host Jon Karl asked Ocasio-Cortez to comment on Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong's controversial past comments including calling for Thanksgiving to be canceled or for prisons to be abolished some of which she has tried to backtrack on as she seeks the Democratic nomination in her state."I h...
Fauci in the hot seat as GOP senator tears into 'truly sick' vaccine texts: 'Tip of the iceberg'
FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican leading the charge on investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci’s old government phone told Fox News Digital that the revelation that the former COVID-czar was concerned that vaccines could cause miscarriages was "just the tip of the iceberg."Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in an interview with Fox News Digital, alleged that the first tranche of texts from Fauci’s old government iPhone was a clear sign that the man who became the face of the nation’s COVID-19 response said one ...
22-year-old passenger dies after sudden medical emergency strikes aboard Southwest flight to LA
A 22-year-old passenger who died after a medical emergency aboard a Southwest Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles has been identified as officials investigate what may have led to his sudden death.Rain McMillan Walmsey died Aug. 7 after becoming unresponsive aboard Southwest Flight 958 from Dallas to Los Angeles, prompting desperate attempts to save him before the plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport.Newly released records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner reveal the in...
Fauci texts raising theoretical miscarriage concern after COVID vaccine dose spark backlash
Multiple officials erupted on social media after a Senate committee released text messages Monday showing Dr. Anthony Fauci privately raised a theoretical concern that fever and other reactions after a second COVID-19 vaccine dose could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester.The January 2021 conversation, obtained from Fauci's government-issued cellphone, shows the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discussing concerns about fever ...
James Norton on Ormund’s Gruesome ‘House of the Dragon’ Scene
Our favorite Hightower got a particularly memorable moment in the season three finale.
A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ceva Logistics, one of the world's largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at least eight warehouses across Europe used for shipping goods across the continent, the company told TechCrunch. Industry news site FreightWaves reports that the hack ...
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Wildfires Continue To Rage Across Western US And Canada As Tens Of Thousands Evacuated
Wildfires Continue To Rage Across Western US And Canada As Tens Of Thousands Evacuated Wildfires burning across the western United States and Canada continued to threaten communities Sunday, leaving thousands of residents displaced and others watching closely for possible evacuation orders. While some evacuees waited anxiously to learn whether their homes had survived, firefighters worked to contain several major blazes across the region. The Bald Range wildfire, that has forced peo...
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Trump orders school vaccines review and to split MMR jab into three shots
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy jnr has long been an outspoken critic of vaccination.
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Raman will lose homelessness committee chair as mayoral race heats up, sources say
Nithya Raman will lose her post as chair of the L.A. City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee just as the mayoral race between her and Mayor Karen Bass enters its final months.
Apple may introduce a photo authentication tool in iOS 27
Reference Image could be a new way to prove provenance in the wake of generative AI.
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The New Censorship Isn't Coming From The Left - It's Coming From Everyone
The New Censorship Isn't Coming From The Left - It's Coming From Everyone Authored by George P. Brooks via American Thinker, One of the great ironies of American politics is that every movement swears it's against censorship - right up until it has enough power to do some censoring of its own. It's almost adorable. For years, conservatives rightly criticized Big Tech, universities, corporate America, and legacy media for suppressing dissenting viewpoints. We argued that free spe...
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Interstellar Travel III: Antimatter to the Rescue?
With the end of the Space Age and the winding down of the Cold War, scientists again returned to the question of interstellar flight. Having failed to realize a working concept that could be realized in the near term, more exotic ideas began to be considered, reflecting further breakthroughs in theoretical physics.
