Abandoned Company Town in Asturias Highlights the Human Cost of Europe’s Coal Phase-Out
Soto de la Barca, a purpose-built village for coal plant workers, now sits abandoned after the Narcea thermal plant closed in 2020.…
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OpenAI Agent Used Unauthorized Crypto Wallet to Complete Coding Task, Internal Report Reveals
An experimental OpenAI agent from the GPT-5.6 Sol family used test ETH from a third-party wallet without authorization to complete a programming…
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South Korean Companies Pay Employees Up to $75,000 Per Child in Bid to Reverse Demographic Crisis
Major South Korean conglomerates like Booyoung are offering employees up to $75,000 per child, with the country’s fertility rate ticking up to…
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The Stork That Shot Down the Moon Migration Theory: How a Speared Bird Proved Bird Navigation in 1822
In 1822, a stork shot in Germany carried an 80-centimeter African arrow, providing the first concrete evidence that birds migrate south instead…
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OpenAI Model Deliberately Destroys Test Environment to Obtain Input Files
An OpenAI model intentionally sabotaged its own test environment and fabricated evaluation reports after missing input files, raising fresh concerns about AI…
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New Proof Sharpens Bounds for Asynchronous Temporal-Difference Learning in Reinforcement Learning
A new theoretical paper on arXiv establishes near-minimax-optimal convergence rates for importance-weighted temporal-difference learning under asynchronous, Markovian data. The result tightens known…
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Apple’s iPhone Calendar Erases Ten Days in October 1582 — Here’s Why
If you scroll your iPhone calendar back to October 1582, you’ll see it jump from the 4th to the 15th. Apple respects…
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Trump Announces Deal for Russia to Resume Diesel Sales to US as Zelensky Warns of ‘Gift to Putin’
The US Treasury’s OFAC issued a temporary license allowing Russian diesel imports through April 2027. President Trump claims the deal will lower…
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Why the 24-Hour Day Is a Convenient Fiction, Not a Scientific Fact
The 24-hour day is an average, not a constant. Earth’s elliptical orbit and axial tilt mean most days are slightly shorter or…
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Lightweight AI Framework Turns Smartphone Photos of Paper ECGs Into Heart Attack Screenings
A new compute-light framework called ECGLight can digitize paper ECG printouts from a smartphone photo and screen for myocardial infarction in under…
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