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A former U.S. spy spoke to The New Yorker about "years of clandestine work for the C.I.A. — which, he said, had 'prevented Iran from getting a nuke'."
[Kevin] Chalker told me that, as he understood it, the Pentagon had suggested running commando operations to kill key Iranian scientists, as Israel subsequently did. But the C.I.A. proposed recruiting those scientists to defect, as U.S. spies had once courted Soviet physicists. Chalker paraphrased the agency's pitch: "We can debrief them and learn so much mo
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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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Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Денис, я бизнес-аналитик. Последние полгода в проектах, с которыми я работаю (в основном B2B-сектор, от IT-интеграторов до производственных компаний), активно экспериментируют с мессенджером MAX. И я хочу поделиться не столько «волшебными кейсами», сколько трезвым анализом того, как этот канал работает с точки зрения экономики и процессов.Если кратко: MAX сейчас — это «синий океан» с низкой конкуренцией и возможностью писать первым по номеру телефона. Но это же... Read more ›
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New Zealand agritech startup Halter has reportedly closed a $220 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, with Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund said to be leading the round, as reported by TechCrunch. The company makes solar-powered smart collars that replace physical fences, dogs, horses, and helicopters with virtual boundaries that cattle learn to respect ... Read more Read more ›
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The vivo X300 Ultra was officially unveiled on Monday with plans to ship it in China first and expand to the global markets soon after. Yes, the X Ultra is going wide for the first time. So, are you tempted? In China, the base 12/256GB model costs CNY 7,000 and started shipping on Friday. This converts to $1,020 / £775 / €885 / ₹95,000. These won’t be the actual prices... Read more ›
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Keir Starmer’s government steps up efforts to get American AI start-up to grow its presence in Britain Read more ›
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With ransomware attacks on the rise, businesses are calling on a new class of security expert to help with high-stakes talks Read more ›
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Mikko Hyppönen, one of cybersecurity’s most recognised figures after decades fighting malware, has pivoted to anti-drone defence, as reported by TechCrunch. In 2025, Hyppönen became chief research officer at Sensofusion, a Helsinki-based company developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and military clients. Photo by Rafael Minguet Delgado on Pexels From floppy disks to a major ... Read more Read more ›
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What should be a reliable everyday choice is leaving many drivers disappointed. Find out why users are giving these Michelin tires such poor reviews. Read more ›
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"Hackers briefly turned a widely trusted developer tool into a vehicle for credential-stealing malware that could give attackers ongoing access to infected systems," the news site Axios.com reported Tuesday, citing security researchers at Google. The compromised package — also named axios — simplifies HTTP requests, and reportedly receives millions of downloads each day: The malicious versions were removed within roughly three hours of being published, but Google warned the incident... Read more ›
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Developers are considering ways to quantum-proof the world's oldest cryptocurrency as the threat of this computing moves beyond a hypothetical. Read more ›
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Compliance startup Delve has been removed from Y Combinator’s portfolio following weeks of escalating allegations about its business practices. The company’s COO Selin Kocalar announced on X that the company and Y Combinator had separated — a rare and significant move from the accelerator, which has backed over 4,000 companies and seldom publicly cuts ties ... Read more Read more ›
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Compulsive tidiness isn't always about organization. For many adults, keeping an immaculate home is a childhood coping mechanism that never got retired — a way of producing predictable outcomes in a world that once offered none. Read more ›
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While your friends exhaust themselves performing for each other's approval, science reveals that the warm weight of your pet at 3am might be the sanest response to a world that's turned every human interaction into an audition. Read more ›
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Research reveals that when older adults stop attending every social event or having opinions on every topic, they're not becoming antisocial—they're demonstrating a sophisticated psychological skill younger people desperately need but rarely develop until faced with their own mortality. Read more ›
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As it turns out, it is possible to run a desktop PC on AA batteries - although it is, predictably, wildly impractical. Here's how many you'd need. Read more ›
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Growing up lower middle class taught a specific emotional skill: how to suppress desire so that the people already stretched thin wouldn't feel the weight of what they couldn't provide. That skill persists long after the economic constraints disappear. Read more ›
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They're the ones who've turned kindness into camouflage, mastering the art of giving just enough light to blind everyone to the darkness they're drowning in. Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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Just six days ago — and 30 minutes after a Disney-OpenAI meeting about a project with Sora — Disney's team was "blindsided" with the news Sora was being discontinued, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, describing OpenAI's move as "a big rug-pull." Even some Sora employees were surprised by the cancellation. It was just 14 weeks ago Disney announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI's AI-powered video generation... Read more ›
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Bell Labs "created many of the foundational innovations of the modern age," writes Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — from transistors and telecommunications satellites to Unix and the C programming language. But what was the secret to its success? he asks in a new article for the Wall Street Journal. Start with its lucky arrival in a "problem-rich" environment,... Read more ›
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How powerful is Jupiter's lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter for the past decade), researchers determined Jupiter's lightning bolts are 100 to 10,000 times more energetic than earth's: A single bolt of lightning on Earth releases about 1 billion joules of energy. That means the most extreme bolts of jovian lightning carry 10 trillion joules of energy,... Read more ›
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Apple unveiled new device-level age restrictions in the UK on Wednesday. "After downloading a new update, users will now have to confirm that they are 18 or older to access unrestricted features," reports Gizmodo. "Users will be able to confirm their age with a credit card or by scanning an ID." For those underage or who have not confirmed their age, Apple will turn on Web Content Filter and Communication... Read more ›
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In many rural areas, America's online shoppers can wait half a week or more for deliveries. But Amazon started a $4 billion "rural delivery push" last year, reports Bloomberg, and has now cut delivery times to under 24 hours for 1 in 5 rural and small-town households, with 48-hour delivery to 62% of rural households. The payoff could be huge. Rural shoppers in the US collectively spend $1 trillion a... Read more ›
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"What happens when you can describe the social experience you want and have it built for you...?" asks Bluesky? "We've just started experimenting, but we're sharing it now because we want you to build alongside us." Called "Attie" — because it's built with Bluesky's decentralized publishing framework, AT Protocol (which is open source) — the new assistant turns natural language prompts into social feeds, without users having to know how... Read more ›
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Utility-scale solar construction... by robots! It's "one of the largest real-world demonstrations," notes Electrek, with 100 MW of capacity installed by the "Maximo" robots from AES, one of the world's top power companies. Maximo uses AI "to automate the heavy lifting of solar panels and accelerate solar installation," according to their web page, which shows a video of Maximo at work installing a vast field of solar panels in Kern... Read more ›
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"Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope," reports Science Daily. It's "smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record." "But this isn't just about size; it's about durability. By engraving data into ultra-stable ceramic materials, the team has opened the door to storing information that could last for centuries or even millennia without needing power or maintenance."... Read more ›
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Project Hail Mary has now grossed $300.8 million globally after earning another $54.1 million this weekend from 86 markets, reports Variety, noting that after just nine days it's now Amazon MGM's highest-grossing film ever. And last weekend it had the best opening for a "non-franchise" movie in three years, adds the Associated Press — the best since 2023's Oppenheimer: Project Hail Mary, which cost nearly $200 million to produce... is... Read more ›
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"It's time to charge for access," argues a new opinion piece at The Register. Begging billion-dollar companies to fund open source projects just isn't enough, writes long-time tech reporter Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Screw fair. Screw asking for dimes. You can't live off one-off charity donations... Depending on what people put in a tip jar is no way to fund anything of value... [A]ccording to a 2024 Tidelift maintainer report, 60... Read more ›
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