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Daddy longlegs seen catching and eating frogs in astonishing first:
Daddy longlegs, also called harvestmen, have been documented catching and consuming living frogs larger than themselves in South American rainforests.
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14 July 2026.
Review: $750 easy-to-use robot mower handles lawns like its pricy peers:
The Anthbot M9 is a surprisingly adept wire-free mower, which can master lawns of up to 1,000 sq m (around a quarter of an acre) for a fraction of the price of its famous competitors.
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19 July 2026.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a simple comment about the judicial smackdown of Trump’s IRS settlement: Bar referrals.
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19 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.
Alums launch company to streamline cash flow processes:
The newest podcast from Entrepreneurship at Cornell features the founders of Tabs.
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09 July 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Could AI be conscious?:
Experts believe it’s at least possible.
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20 July 2026.
AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk:
Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientistsFor many birdwatchers, recording a species outside its normal range is the holy grail.
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20 July 2026.
How a virtual LAN can better protect your home network - and the best way to get started:
You might think a basic LAN setup is secure enough, but there could be issues lurking that require device isolation to ensure your security.
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20 July 2026.
Controversial farm subsidy scheme gets billion pound budget:
The protest-hit Sustainable Farming Scheme has been introduced after almost a decade in development.
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20 July 2026.
Engineers develop a bird-scale flapping robot for aerial-aquatic travel:
Researchers have developed a new kind of robot that flies through the air, swims through the water, and transitions between the two realms.
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18 July 2026.
The ‘Bad Blood’ Between Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan and Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour:
Shayne Coplan of Polymarket and Tarek Mansour of Kalshi are young billionaires intent on dominating prediction markets.
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20 July 2026.
On Sin:
A meditation on cartographic ethics: mapmaking necessarily distorts reality, but some distortions cross the line into negligence or deception.
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20 July 2026.
A Mathematical Tribute to the Soccer Ball:
As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity’s favorite truncated icosahedron.
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20 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.
On Sin:
A meditation on cartographic ethics: mapmaking necessarily distorts reality, but some distortions cross the line into negligence or deception.
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20 July 2026.
New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes:
Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China's leader, Thailand's king, or Saudi Arabia's crown prince — and it will decline, reports the Associated Press.
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20 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.
Can Ozempic prevent or treat cancer? It's way too soon to say, an expert cautions:
Excitement around the idea that GLP-1 drugs can prevent cancer is running well ahead of the evidence, an expert explains.
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19 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
