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It became too easy to shout ‘aliens’, so SETI changed its rules:
For the first time in more than 15 years, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) committee has significantly revised the protocols governing how scientists “evaluate, verify, and announce evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
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07 July 2026.
Lifelogging set to go mainstream with $229 all-purpose 4K streaming headset:
Lifelogging has exploded from an obscure technoboffin hobby into a mainstream phenomenon in just a few short years, and this VibeLens Headset appears to be one of the key tools required for widespread mass adoption.
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08 July 2026.
Mexico Passed Speech Laws To Protect The Powerless. The Powerful Used Them To Silence Critics.:
For over a decade, a particular argument keeps resurfacing from well-meaning progressives: the rise of authoritarianism around the globe is a good reason to pass laws suppressing speech.
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08 July 2026.
How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO):
Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic.
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04 December 2025.
Inside baseball: AI-enabled enforcement tech takes time, testing:
Training artificial intelligence to enforce even seemingly straightforward rules – like balls and strikes in Major League Baseball – is a messy, dynamic process that takes time and careful evaluation of the technology.
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06 July 2026.
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Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise:
Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentreWhat are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor’s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found.
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08 July 2026.
Sitting for more than 30 minutes at a time linked to higher risk of cancer death:
Study suggests even light activity such as ironing could reduce health risks linked to prolonged sedentary behaviourSitting for longer than half an hour at a time each day raises the risk of dying from cancer, a study suggests.
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08 July 2026.
IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks:
Their plan to protect open-source projects from AI-discovered security holes has led to the launch of two commercial offerings: Lightwell Network and Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier.
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08 July 2026.
Amber heat health alerts in effect as UK set for one of longest-lasting heatwaves since 1976:
Temperatures are set to rise as high as 36C (97F) for parts of southern England this week.
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08 July 2026.
Why AI companies are hiring philosophers to help develop their models:
A growing number of AI labs have been hiring from a surprising pool of candidates: philosophers.
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07 July 2026.
In San Francisco, Some Home Sellers Now Ask for OpenAI or Anthropic Stock:
Even before OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they are distorting home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area, as people race to buy and sellers ask for stock instead of cash.
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08 July 2026.
EVE Online’s Carbon engine is now open source:
Fenris Creations’ Ben Hunter discusses why open-sourcing the Carbon engine could benefit security, collaboration, and future development, including how LLM-assisted coding and Godot fit into the picture.
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08 July 2026.
Spread of Seafloor Directly Observed for the First Time:
The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe.
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08 July 2026.
Critical fire weather complicates firefighting efforts in massive Utah wildfire:
Firefighters working on the nation's largest current wildfire, burning in southern Utah, are being challenged by historic weather conditions.
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27 June 2026.
EVE Online’s Carbon engine is now open source:
Fenris Creations’ Ben Hunter discusses why open-sourcing the Carbon engine could benefit security, collaboration, and future development, including how LLM-assisted coding and Godot fit into the picture.
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08 July 2026.
Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share:
StatCounter's June 2026 data shows Windows made up 56.
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08 July 2026.
With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player:
Iran’s viral social media campaign has been slick, savvy, and accessible to a Western audience.
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20 May 2026.
We remember little to nothing of early childhood — and a recent mouse study may help explain why:
Early in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds.
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08 July 2026.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
Longer term weather forecast
