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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Liftoff! Returning to the Moon

1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (265+ words) Explanation: We are one small step closer to returning to the Moon. A new chapter in human exploration began yesterday when NASA's Artemis II launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) from Kennedy Space Center. Carrying four astronauts, the Orion…...

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The Human Toll of One of the Internet’s Worst Jobs

55+ min ago  (279+ words) An unfathomable amount of child sexual abuse material pollutes the internet. INHOPE, an international hotline network, processed nearly 2.5 million online records of suspected materials in 2024. The Netherlands and the United States hosted the most web addresses distributing this material. Eko…...

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Follow the Money: Foreign Billionaires Are Bankrolling America's AI Surrender

2+ hour, 45+ min ago  (287+ words) That is efficient. Perhaps too efficient to have emerged purely from the ground up. Americans deserve an honest answer to that question. So far, the movement demanding a moratorium has shown little interest in providing one. It is always the…...

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Google AI breakthrough shows why we don't need more data centers

5+ hour, 5+ min ago  (259+ words) We have seen the future of AI via Large Language Models. And it's smaller than you think. That much was clear in 2025, when we first saw China's DeepSeek " a slimmer, lighter LLM that required way less data center energy to…...

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Managing Wealth During the Fog of War, AI Disruption and an Uncertain Economic Path

7+ hour, 31+ min ago  (255+ words) This seminar ended at 5 pm yesterday. Key Bank is supposed to be putting an active link at the Source URL some 24-48 hours later. I about fell of my chair when one of their four member team of experts explained why…...

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Failure Is Not an Option: Legendary NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz on Space Race [36:52]

8+ hour, 43+ min ago  (85+ words) I didn't watch the video but reading the transcript is a history of what makes America great. Men, created by God to do great things. My son works in the space industry, partly inspired by Gen Krantz's character in The…...

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Today's Cryptogram

9+ hour, 19+ min ago  (204+ words) NJQAN OMQJ XQEGXHA. NXHO'JH QAQYCCO KYAHL ME VYGNA VZCHL YRYO DQAN KHCMR NXH GMEAGZMQA CHUHC. -- DMOGH KJMNXHJA. Clue: Change Q to U Ready for a mental workout? " A Cryptogram is a classic quotation puzzle frequently featured in daily publications. I…...

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Google warns Quantum Computing attack could crack Bitcoin in 9 minutes

15+ hour, 33+ min ago  (861+ words) After announcing a 2029 target for migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), Google issues a new warning that a quantum system could attack a Bitcoin (BTC) transaction in about nine minutes. The tech giant warned it won't happen today but it's a…...

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Claude Code Source Leaked via npm Packaging Error, Anthropic Confirms

15+ hour, 57+ min ago  (302+ words) Anthropic on Tuesday confirmed that internal code for its popular artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, Claude Code, had been inadvertently released due to a human error. "No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed," an Anthropic spokesperson said…...

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Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city

18+ hour, 17+ min ago  (200+ words) Local police said initial findings suggested a "system malfunction" caused multiple vehicles to stop in the middle of the road on Tuesday. Videos on social media have documented the outage, with one appearing to show it resulting in a highway…...