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The U.S., whose population the Census Bureau did not expect to start shrinking until 2081, may record its first-ever decline as early as this year because of the Trump administration's accelerating immigration crackdown. Census data released in late January showed US population growth slowed to just 0.5% in the year prior to July 2025 -- the lowest rate since the pandemic -- as net migration fell to 1.3 million from a peak of 2.7 million the year before.
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Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever. Read more ›
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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After a doctor's warning about his blood pressure at 58, he quit the gym, deleted his financial tracking apps, and stopped performing for others—discovering that letting go of society's expectations was the key to actually living. Read more ›
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The team is barely functioning with their software offline, and patience is stretched thin. But when is The Pitt season 2 episode 9 released on HBO Max? Read more ›
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The exhaustion you feel after video calls stems from your brain continuously monitoring your own face in real time, activating self-evaluation circuits designed for brief, high-stakes moments rather than hour-long Tuesday standups. Read more ›
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OpenAI said Monday it had amended a recently hashed out agreement with the Pentagon to specify that its models may not be used to conduct domestic surveillance via commercially obtained data. The change followed criticism that OpenAI’s original deal contained that loophole. The new language is “ ... Read more ›
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US Embassy in Riyadh was struck by drones, resulting in s small fire and some damage to the building, Saudi Arabia officials said. Read more ›
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Caulking guns aren't typically tools people spend a lot of money on, but if you're planning to use one a lot, something battery-powered is worth considering. Read more ›
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Deep beneath the sea, an industry has prospered over the years, driving thousands of skilled personnel who dare the waves… Read more ›
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Quick home services startup Pronto has raised $25 Mn (about ₹228.9 Cr) in its Series B round led by Epiq… Read more ›
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Psychology research suggests the inability to delegate is rarely about maintaining high standards. It's rooted in low interpersonal trust, often shaped by early experiences that taught self-reliance as a survival strategy. Read more ›
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An investor consortium led by BlackRock and EQT said Monday it has agreed to acquire energy provider AES in a roughly $33.4 billion deal, including the company’s debt, continuing a streak of private equity buyouts of large utility companies. The consortium, which also included the California ... Read more ›
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Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad. Read more ›
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Could fighting with the Pentagon be the best thing that ever happened to Anthropic? On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” looked like it could pose an existential threat to the AI firm. Not only could it lose customers, but, depending on how broadly the designation is interpreted, it could force Anthropic’s cloud providers Amazon and Google to cut ties with the firm,... Read more ›
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Apple’s iPhone 17e feels like a grown-up “budget” iPhone, making the Pixel 10a refresh harder to defend. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: The B.C. government says this Sunday will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks. The province will be permanently adopting daylight time and the March 8 "spring forward" will be the last time change, Premier David Eby announced Monday. "We are done waiting. British Columbia is going to change our clocks just one more time -- and then... Read more ›
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People who remember exact dates, clothing, and precise words from painful moments aren't holding grudges. Their nervous systems encoded those details because the brain classified the event as a survival-level threat, recording everything with the fidelity of a security camera during a break-in. Read more ›
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In her first major interview as Microsoft's new gaming chief, Asha Sharma said that "great games" must deliver emotional resonance and a distinct creative voice, while making clear that she has "no tolerance for bad AI." Stepping in after Phil Spencer's retirement, she's pledging consistency, community trust, and a human-first approach to storytelling as Xbox enters a new era. Variety reports: Sharma was quick in laying out her top priorities... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: When two men knocked on Ida Huddleston's door last May, they carried a contract worth more than $33m in exchange for the Kentucky farm that had fed her family for centuries. According to Huddleston, the men's client, an unnamed "Fortune 100 company," sought her 650 acres (260 hectares) in Mason county for an unspecified industrial development. Finding out any more would... Read more ›
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U.S. battery storage installations hit a record 57.6 GWh in 2025, and Texas is now poised to surpass California as the nationâ(TM)s largest storage market in 2026. Electrek reports: According to the US Energy Storage Market Outlook Q1 2026 from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, installations are now four times higher than totals from just three years ago. The US had a total of 137... Read more ›
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alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: A team of researchers working at Quantinuum in the United Kingdom and QuSoft in the Netherlands has now developed a quantum algorithm that solves a specific sampling task -- known as complement sampling -- dramatically more efficiently than any classical algorithm. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, establishes a provable and verifiable quantum advantage in sample complexity: the number of samples required to... Read more ›
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Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global "AI kill switch" that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser's AI features. Phoronix reports: Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image alt text in the Firefox PDF viewer, tab group suggestions, key points in link previews, and AI chatbot providers in the sidebar. Firefox 148 also brings Firefox for Android, support for... Read more ›
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Russia has opened an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for "abetting terrorist activities," [non-paywalled source] in the latest sign that his uneasy relationship with the Kremlin has broken down. From a report: Two Russian newspapers, including the state-run Rossiiskaya Gazeta and Kremlin-friendly tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, alleged on Tuesday that the messaging app had become a tool of western and Ukrainian intelligence services. The articles, credited to materials from Russia's... Read more ›
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Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash. From a report: In an emailed statement to The Verge, Discord's head of product policy, Savannah Badalich, confirms the company "ran a limited test of Persona in the UK where age assurance had previously launched and that test has since concluded." After Discord announced plans to implement age verification globally starting... Read more ›
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Microsoft has spent more than $76 billion acquiring game studios and publishers over the past few years in an attempt to turn Xbox into a Netflix-like subscription platform, and the result is that nobody -- possibly not even Microsoft -- can clearly articulate what Xbox actually is anymore, The Verge writes. The brand started as a powerful video game console, but Game Pass and cloud gaming pushed it toward a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base. The paper, Redefining the Engineering Profession for AI, is based on several assumptions, the first of which is that agentic coding assistants "give senior engineers an... Read more ›
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More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers -- distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 â" neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it. The U.S. spent more than $30 billion in 2024 alone... Read more ›
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