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ch0k1 2 weeks ago
Textbooks challenged by new discovery about how cells divide Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that giant embryonic cells divide—without relying on the classic “purse-string” ring long thought essential for splitting a cell in two. Studying zebrafish embryos, researchers found that instead of forming a fully closed contractile ring, cells use a clever “mechanical ratchet” system.
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Alibaba Team Open-Sources CoPaw: A High-Performance Personal Agent Workstation As the industry moves from simple Large Language Model (LLM) inference toward autonomous agentic systems, the challenge for devs have shifted. It is no longer just about the model; it is about the environment in which that model operates. A team of researchers from Alibaba released CoPaw, an open-source framework designed to address this by providing a standardized workstation for deploying and managing personal AI agents.
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Apple introduces iPhone 17e Apple today announced iPhone 17e, a powerful and more affordable addition to the iPhone 17 lineup. At the heart of iPhone 17e is the latest-generation A19, which delivers exceptional performance for everything users do. iPhone 17e also features C1X, the latest-generation cellular modem designed by Apple, which is up to 2x faster than C1 in iPhone 16e.
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Super-secretive Bohemian Grove society members allegedly leaked as who’s who Some members of an elite, super-secretive men’s club based in California wine country have allegedly been leaked — with names ranging from former late-night host Conan O’Brien and billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
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Scientists discover microbe that breaks a fundamental rule of the genetic code Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing archaeon sometimes reads it as a green light—adding an unusual amino acid and continuing to build the protein. The result is a kind of genetic coin flip: two different proteins can emerge from the same code, influenced partly by environmental conditions
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ch0k1 3 weeks ago
Iran live updates: U.S. and Israel launch strikes, Trump dubs attack "Operation The U.S. and Israel on Saturday began what President Donald Trump described as "major combat operations" in Iran, striking military and nuclear targets. Iran retaliated with strikes across the Middle East.
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Matching vibrations is all it takes to shut down superconductivity in a crystal https://phys.org/news/2026-02-vibrations-superconductivity-nearby-crystal.html The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you'll find quantum fluctuations. In thin, two-dimensional materials, these include random vibrations that can alter electromagnetic fields, a feature that theorists have posited could be quite useful for modifying materials.
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Bioweapons Expert Found Dead Days Before Testifying Against Bill Gates Dr. Francis Boyle—the Harvard professor who literally wrote the America’s 1989 Biological Weapons Act and was set to be the star witness against Bill Gates and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in the ongoing Dutch “crimes against humanity” trial—has been found dead, days before he was scheduled to give a sealed deposition proving the mRNA shots were intentionally designed as depopulation weapons.
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Bolivian military plane carrying banknotes crashes near capital, killing 20 At least 20 people have been killed and more than 30 injured after a Bolivian Air Force Hercules transport plane, carrying a cargo of newly printed banknotes, crashed onto a busy highway while attempting to land in bad weather near the capital, La Paz. The military plane was attempting to land on Friday evening at El Alto International Airport when it skidded off the runway and ploughed into a nearby road, local authorities said.
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OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on US Dept of War classified network https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-reaches-deal-deploy-ai-models-us-department-war-classified-network-2026-02-28/ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Friday it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of War to deploy its AI models on classified cloud networks. "In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome," Altman said in a post on X.
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Nasa announces change to its Moon landing plans Nasa is adding an extra mission to its Artemis programme before it attempts to land astronauts on the Moon for the first time in half a century. The original plan was to fly around the Moon for the Artemis II mission, which is currently scheduled for April, and then attempt a lunar landing with Artemis III in 2028.
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Total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red on Tuesday across continents https://www.localsyr.com/science/ap-science/ap-a-total-lunar-eclipse-will-turn-the-moon-blood-red-on-tuesday-across-several-continents/ A blood-red moon will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse — and there won’t be another until late 2028. The spectacle will be visible Tuesday morning from North America, Central America and the western part of South America. Australia and eastern Asia can catch it Tuesday night. Partial stages of the eclipse with small bites taken out of the moon can be seen from Central Asia and much of South America. Africa and Europe will be shut out
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New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses & Warns When Used Nearby Meta Wayfarer G2s. TCL Nxtwear Gs. RayNeo Air 3s. With so many smart glasses flooding the marketplace, it can be next to impossible to tell whose spectacles are watching back. And with facial recognition capabilities on the horizon, there’s a compelling argument to be made for less-than-passive resistance to the sleazy new devices.
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They tried to slow down the advance of the Sahara with millions of bees In one of the harshest corners of the planet, the Sahara Desert has quietly put some very big human ideas to the test. First came ambitious belts of trees meant to form a “green wall”, then an even bolder move that shipped in refrigerated hives with millions of bees to jump start pollination and life. The desert answered with heat, dust and failure. What finally started to work was not high-tech biology, but simple geometry carved into the sand.
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Trillion-dollar AI market wipeout because investors banked ‘every tech company’ Investors wobbled last week as they worked through the disruption AI is likely to cause across global industries, with further hiccups potentially bubbling through this week. But the reckoning should have been expected, argued Deutsche Bank in a note to clients this morning, because it is a readjustment of perhaps overly optimistic expectations.
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Scientists Found ‘Magic’ Particles in the Large Hadron Collider In November, Quanta magazine published a feature on the detection of “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This magic, they explained, is part of an interesting shift happening at the LHC as scientists realize how useful the facilities there can be for quantum computing. The collider—which will be old enough to vote in September of this year—is evolving to help quantum researchers with information studies, in addition to its stated goals in physics and cosmology.
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Software experiencing 'most exciting moment' as AI fears hammer the stocks Box CEO Aaron Levie says that in the 20-year history of his cloud software vendor, "this is the most exciting moment we've ever had." Wall Street doesn't see it that way. The stock is down 17% in 2026 after starting the year with its steepest monthly drop since 2023. It's gotten caught up in a software swoon, as investors dump shares of companies that they worry will get displaced by the rise of artificial intelligence agents.