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Strange 17th-century Polish ‘vampire’ is no longer a mystery:
Finding a human body buried with a sickle around their neck and a padlock around their big toe isn’t exactly common fare.
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26 August 2026.
Ordinary Wi-Fi can identify people with nearly 100% accuracy:
“Better the devil you know .
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26 August 2026.
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform:
By now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’s platforms.
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26 August 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.
Cornell CAT awards support seven new biotechnology partnerships:
Seven Cornell research teams have received Center for Advanced Technology grants to advance early-stage life science technologies through collaborations with biotechnology companies across New York state.
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26 August 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn:
US tech giant agrees to establish further protections for teens such as daily usage limits and blocks on night-time useMeta agreed to significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps in a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit on Wednesday.
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27 August 2026.
Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds:
Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medicationThe current shingles vaccine appears to significantly lower the risk of heart attack and stroke, according to scientists who say it could help prevent thousands of deaths each year.
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27 August 2026.
Apple sets its iPhone 18 event for September: A new foldable and CEO could steal the show:
Is a foldable iPhone finally in our future? We'll be on the ground on Sept.
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27 August 2026.
Dozens of US and Canadian citizens missing after flash flooding in Nepal:
They are among hundreds of people still unaccounted for, with authorities for both countries saying they are closely monitoring the situation.
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26 August 2026.
Meta, states agree to $17 billion settlement in child safety trial:
The social media giant also agreed to make sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook.
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26 August 2026.
Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims:
The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.
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27 August 2026.
Klara and the gift of curiosity:
A reflection on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, the upcoming film adaptation, and why the novel’s curious, hopeful perspective on AI, faith, and human replaceability left such a strong impression.
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27 August 2026.
F.D.A. Approves the Drug Daraxonrasib That’s Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer:
In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.
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27 August 2026.
This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy:
Researchers have identified a speed demon at the heart of the Milky Way.
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19 August 2026.
How to Be Authentic:
A reflective essay comparing authenticity in art to fast food: catchy, mass-appeal pop can feel manufactured, yet still contain real craft and emotional truth.
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26 August 2026.
OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach:
TechCrunch reports that OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, "offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident.
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27 August 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.
How worried are you about the health impacts of extreme heat?:
Are you worried about the effects of rising temperatures on your and your community's health? Take our poll to answer now.
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26 August 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
