Solar models point to a planet the young Sun may have swallowed
A peer-reviewed study proposes that ingesting a super-Earth could explain several persistent mismatches between solar models and observations.
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Search expands after Indonesian ferry capsizes in Java Sea
Authorities reported six deaths and 107 rescues as ships, a helicopter and hundreds of personnel searched for 130 people still missing.
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Sweden votes in close election with far right seeking cabinet role
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s bloc faces a center-left alliance led by former premier Magdalena Andersson in a contest over all 349 Riksdag seats.
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AI safety warnings meet sharper skepticism across Silicon Valley
Public alarms from current and former AI researchers are colliding with executives who question both the scale of the risk and the motives behind the warnings.
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Police stop reporter documenting installation of Flock license-plate camera
The Georgia encounter renewed scrutiny of public recording and privacy around a rapidly expanding automated camera network.
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Homebrew 7 adds vulnerability checks, stronger sandboxing and a native Mac app
The package manager’s major release also ends macOS Catalina support and moves Intel Macs into its least-supported hardware tier.
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JetKVM introduces smaller Mini remote-management devices starting at $39
The company says its Ethernet and wireless KVM-over-IP models use new open-source firmware, an ESP32-based design and the same browser interface as its existing hardware.
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Recurrent Looped Transformer proposal links every generated token in one continuing computation
A newly published architecture proposal combines a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder, aiming to extend a model's reasoning path as a sequence grows while keeping per-token work fixed.
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Apple Details Five-Model AI Family Built Around On-Device and Private Cloud Computing
The third generation of Apple Foundation Models uses on-device systems, Private Cloud Compute and specialized architectures while excluding private user data from training, Apple says.
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LIVE COVERAGEPolice stop reporter documenting installation of Flock license-plate camera
The Georgia encounter renewed scrutiny of public recording and privacy around a rapidly expanding automated camera network.
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Malaysia ends Sarawak haze emergency as pollution eases but smoke remains
Malaysia lifted the emergency in Sarawak after air pollution fell below the critical threshold, but officials said several areas were still at very unhealthy levels.
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US diesel hits record $5.85 a gallon as war-linked fuel costs ripple through the economy
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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Nazi-looted painting returns to focus as Argentina orders restitution
A work missing for eight decades is set to be returned to the heir of Dutch Jewish dealer Jacques Goudstikker after appearing in a house listing in Mar del Plata.
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