Passkey critique highlights recovery, portability and lockout trade-offs
A developer argues that phishing resistance alone does not settle the consumer-security case when credentials depend on platforms and recovery flows.
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Squirrel Named “KOJO” Wins Meme of the Year After Viral Photo Takes Over the Internet
A squirrel named KOJO has become one of the internet’s most recognizable animals after a perfectly timed photograph turned into a global reaction meme. Following months of reposts, edits and increasingly absurd variations, the image has now won the title of “Meme of the Year,” transforming an ordinary squirrel into an unexpected online celebrity.
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Dangote Refinery Opens $1.6 Billion Share Sale to Fund Capacity Expansion
The Nigerian refinery is offering 4.1 billion shares as it seeks capital to double output and broaden ownership across Africa.
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Proposed six-figure H-1B fee adds pressure to US technology hiring
After courts rejected an earlier levy, a proposed Homeland Security rule would charge $103,265 for many company-sponsored H-1B visas.
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Study questions whether lunar ice could sustain million-person Moon cities
Researchers estimate that even generous water reserves and near-closed-loop recycling would support a city of one million for only about a century.
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Newborn Pygmy Hippo Named “ROBIN” Becomes Wisconsin’s New Viral Animal Star
A newborn pygmy hippopotamus named ROBIN is becoming an unexpected social media sensation after his arrival at Shamba Safari in Neshkoro, Wisconsin. Videos of the tiny hippo exploring his enclosure, following his mother and awkwardly discovering the water have spread rapidly online, turning ROBIN into the latest baby pygmy hippo to capture the internet’s attention.
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Nike to leave S&P 100 after steep five-year market-value decline
The sportswear group will remain in the broader S&P 500 as four technology companies join the blue-chip index in a September reshuffle.
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Sergey Brin Contributions to California Tax Fight Reach $102 Million
State records cited by the Los Angeles Times show the Google co-founder financing a group backing two measures that could override a proposed billionaire tax.
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Anthropic CEO Calls for Slower Frontier AI Capability Growth
Dario Amodei says leading developers should pace model advances so safety research, external evaluation and public oversight have time to catch up.
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Report Says Tesla Has Ended New Solar Roof Installations
A technology report says Tesla stopped supplying its proprietary Solar Roof tiles in August, leaving installers and owners seeking clarity on support.
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Houthi advance reaches Perim Island at crucial Red Sea shipping route
The reported seizure of Perim Island puts Houthi forces beside the Bab al-Mandab Strait as fighting and displacement intensify across western Yemen.
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US diesel average passes $6 a gallon as supply squeeze deepens
AAA data put the national average at a record $6.05, raising the prospect of higher transport and consumer costs if elevated prices persist.
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T-Mobile sets $5 monthly price for Apple’s two-iPhone Handoff feature
The carrier says eligible US customers will be able to share one number between two compatible iPhones when Apple releases iOS 27.
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Google commits €13 billion to Finnish data centres and nuclear power
Google plans three new Finnish data centres, an expansion in Hamina and a 22-year agreement for as much as half of the Loviisa nuclear plant’s output.
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Sony asks court to arbitrate PlayStation digital ownership lawsuit
Four California customers say PlayStation’s purchase language obscures that digital games are licensed rather than sold; Sony is seeking arbitration or dismissal.
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Anthropic scenario tool maps how AI capability could reshape the 2030 economy
The model links automation, adoption and new task creation to sharply different outcomes for growth, wages and employment.
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Open-source TradingAgents framework assigns market research to teams of LLM agents
Tauric Research has opened a research framework that divides market analysis, debate, trading and risk-management tasks among specialized language-model agents.
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Mistral raises €3 billion in a record European tech funding round
The French AI company says Samsung led the Series D as it pushed its valuation above €21 billion and set a new benchmark for European fundraising.
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South African workers are being paid to teach AI the jobs they studied for years
A Rest of World essay says a newly graduated South African PhD holder was invited to train an AI system on tasks from assessment design to essay marking, showing how the AI labor market now depends on human judgment it may later replace.
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France sets out €1 billion farm rescue package after damaging summer heat
The government says compensation, faster subsidy payments and targeted tax relief will help farms absorb crop losses and restart production after drought and heatwaves.
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Strike 3’s piracy case now intersects with a Meta executive
A long-running copyright enforcement campaign has collided with Meta’s AI training litigation, after a filing linked a residential BitTorrent subscriber to a senior Reality Labs executive.
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Nepal rescues two workers alive from flood-hit hydropower tunnel
Nine days after devastating floods, rescuers pulled two men from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower site in Rasuwa, while officials said many others were still missing.
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The American Automobile Association says average US diesel prices have reached a record $5.85 a gallon, intensifying pressure on farmers, hauliers and food supply chains already strained by the Iran war.
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Nvidia moves to buy Hugging Face in a $12.9 billion AI expansion
CNBC says Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, a move meant to widen access to AI tools for developers and institutions.
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