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UK Government Begins Adding Miscarriage-Inducing Drug to Food Supply for ‘Greater Good’– slaynews.com
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The UK Government will begin adding a drug to the nation’s flour that is known to trigger miscarriages in pregnant women, arguing that it’s necessary for the “greater good,” exposing tens of millions of people to the substance through everyday foods, regardless of whether they want it.
The move will mandate the mass-medicating of the population by forcing commercial flour producers to add synthetic folic acid to the nation’s food supply.
Beginning December 13, 2026, virtually all non-wholemeal wheat flour produced by major British mills must contain synthetic folic acid under government regulations approved without a vote on the floor of the House of Commons.
The mandate will expose tens of millions of people to the substance through bread and countless other everyday foods whether they need it or not.
There will be no prescription.
There will be no individualized dosage.
There will be no medical screening.
And there will be no meaningful way for most consumers to avoid it.
Anthropic to watermark AI-generated content – Computerworld– www.computerworld.com
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Anthropic will begin labeling AI-generated content created by Claude, Claude Code, and the company’s API, as well as Claude models via third-party services, according to The Register.
Text generated by future Claude models will be given an invisible watermark. According to Anthropic, the watermark is embedded directly into the generated text without affecting its meaning or readability. For files, Anthropic will instead use signed metadata in accordance with the C2PA standard.
The effort is part of the company’s plan to comply with the EU’s AI Regulation and transparency requirements regarding AI-generated material. However, the labeling will be implemented globally for all users.
Babylon Bee sues New Mexico over ‘unconstitutional’ AI satire law | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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The Babylon Bee has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a New Mexico law requiring government-mandated disclaimers on AI-generated political satire, despite the state’s own attorney general previously concluding that the provision targeting satire and parody is likely unconstitutional.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys filed the lawsuit Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of New Mexico on behalf of the satire outlet, challenging provisions of HB 182, a 2024 law regulating what the state calls “materially deceptive media.”
The law makes it a civil offense to create or produce political content containing AI-generated material without including a state-mandated disclaimer. Violations can carry penalties of up to $1,000 each, with total civil penalties reaching $20,000. The restrictions apply 365 days a year, including during non-election years.
U.S. Air Force Expands 3D Systems’ Metal 3D Printing Program – 3Druck.com
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Opposition to local data centers rises sharply, survey finds– phys.org
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As protesters rally against data center construction in dozens of states and New York and Texas pause the issuance of permits for large data centers, a new nationally representative survey finds that Americans’ opposition to data centers in their communities has risen sharply since last spring.
Elon Musk is building the world’s largest chip factory: a technological project that challenges industry giants – صوت الإمارات
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Poll: Majority of Americans Support Stricter Oversight of Social Media Companies to Protect Children – ShiaWaves
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Federal judge declines to block Texas THC ban as legal challenge moves forward – cbs19.tv
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The FCC approved “space mirrors” that experts say could blind stargazers and disrupt wildlife– www.techspot.com
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WTF in Space: Reflect Orbital proposed a bold plan to launch a large number of “space mirrors” into Earth’s orbit and surprisingly enough, the FCC gave the idea the green light. Now, experts and researchers are warning that the project could have potentially dangerous effects on human health and the planet’s natural cycles.
In July, the FCC approved Reflect Orbital’s proposal to deploy satellites capable of reflecting sunlight from orbit. These “space mirrors” are designed to redirect sunlight toward specific areas of the planet’s surface, with potential benefits for power generation and other applications. Experts continue to debate the plan, while the California-based startup is betting on its technology’s “safeguards.”
The “mirrors in space” concept is certainly worth discussing, as the nearly 2,000 public comments received by the FCC demonstrate. A new critical assessment comes from Robert Massey, deputy executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society. In a recent interview, Massey described the FCC’s approval as “extraordinary.”
Reflect Orbital is now planning to launch Eärendil-1, its first space-mirror prototype. Experts warn that amateur astronomers observing the satellite could risk serious eye damage. Looking directly at sunlight reflected from the device could be comparable to viewing the Sun without adequate eye protection, with Massey describing the potential exposure as a significant risk to human health.
University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades To’Curb Mental Health Crisis’– www.wsj.com
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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-of-michigan-grades-mental-health-1a5701d4
Scientists found a new way to stop malaria: Let the mosquito live, but kill the parasite inside it |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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A mosquito does not need to die for its role in malaria transmission to be interrupted. That idea sits at the centre of a 2025 study led by researchers associated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who tested a different way of using bed nets: instead of relying entirely on insecticides to kill mosquitoes, the treated material can deliver antiparasitic compounds when mosquitoes come into contact with it. The compounds are designed to act after they enter the mosquito, where they interfere with the development of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for most human malaria. The approach is particularly relevant as conventional insecticides are losing effectiveness against resistant mosquito populations.
Why insecticide-treated bed nets are becoming less effective against malaria
Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets have been among the most important tools used against malaria. Their success has been closely tied to reducing contact between people and mosquitoes, while insecticides on the nets kill or incapacitate mosquitoes that land on the material. That system is becoming harder to maintain in areas where mosquito populations have developed resistance to commonly used insecticides. According to the study published in Nature, titled ‘In vivo screen of Plasmodium targets for mosquito-based malaria control’, the decline in malaria deaths has stalled in recent years, with insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes threatening the effectiveness of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets. In 2023, malaria was estimated to have caused 263 million cases and 597,000 deaths worldwide.The researchers were therefore looking at the same familiar point of contact, a mosquito landing on a treated surface, but asking a different question. What if the target was not the mosquito itself? Earlier work had already suggested that this could work. The team had shown that atovaquone, an antimalarial drug, could interfere with P. falciparum after mosquitoes encountered a treated surface.
New catalyst with 75% less platinum promises to reduce the cost of hydrogen fuel cells– phys.org
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The high cost of platinum is one of the main barriers to the wider adoption of hydrogen fuel cells. Now, researchers at IMDEA Materials Institute have developed a catalyst that delivers the same performance while using 75% less of this expensive metal. The study, published in Electrochimica Acta, demonstrates a breakthrough made possible by applying controlled mechanical compression to the catalyst. This modifies its atomic-scale structure, enabling it to achieve energy efficiency comparable to that of pure platinum.
‘Plasma gun’ technology could transform space laundry and sanitation for future missions – Phys.org
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Meta ordered to pay nearly $1 billion after landmark court loss over child safety – KFOX
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The world’s leading AI companies are all struggling to contain their latest models – Business Insider– news.google.com
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The world’s leading AI companies are all struggling to contain their latest models Business Insider
X replaces revenue-sharing programme with Original Content Rewards – Buzzincontent
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Pentagon pushes defense companies to boost weapons production after concerns of depleted stocks – FOX8 WGHP
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Germany Considers Doubling Drone Defense Units and Bases – Межа. Новини України.
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61% Of Americans Back Stronger Oversight Of Social Media Companies: Poll – NDTV Profit
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Polish data center plans to send its waste heat to the neighbors – Computerworld– www.computerworld.com
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As Europe swelters in a heatwave, residents probably don’t want to hear about ways to make their homes even hotter, but that’s what Polish property developer Citylink is talking about, with plans to dump waste heat from a new data center in Wrocław into the municipal district heating network.
Citylink is designing the data center so that heat from servers can be recovered instead of being dissipated via cooling systems — and as the data center grows, any increase in computing power will mean more energy available for recovery.
The collaboration with local power company Kogeneracja will provide “valuable experience in designing and operating modern data centers, with a particular focus on infrastructure dedicated to AI nodes,” said Michał Starybrat, development director at Citylink.
China’s missiles that can damage aircraft carriers could pose threat to US in Taiwan conflict – interestingengineering.com
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Elon Musk Backs Study Showing Bot Traffic Will Be 1,000X Human Traffic — Michael Burry Wants To Know Who’s Actually Paying – Stocktwits
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Minnesota’s nudification ban takes effect after judge rejects xAI’s bid to pause it – Mashable– news.google.com
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Minnesota’s nudification ban takes effect after judge rejects xAI’s bid to pause it Mashable
Elon Musk Rejects Ukraine’s Request to Use Starlink for Strikes in Russia – Межа. Новини України.
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Yemen’s Houthis launch fresh ballistic missile, drone attacks on Mokha: Army – A News
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Researchers used a gene gun to make lettuce and tobacco produce cattle and pig myoglobin, the protein that gives meat its red colour and umami flavour– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Scientists engineer lettuce and tobacco to produce myoglobin for meat alternatives
Let us accept it: livestock farming is a heavy burden on the environment. Raising animal feed takes vast amounts of land and huge supplies of freshwater, and it adds to global warming by releasing methane and nitrous oxide. Many consumers also worry about animal welfare. These pressures are helping to fuel the rapid expansion of the global meat-alternative market, now estimated to be worth between €6.7 billion and €8.1 billion a year. The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.1%-12.3% during the next 10 years. In such situations, microbial engineering is a common way of producing meat substitutes. This means inserting genes for animal proteins into bacteria or yeast and growing the organisms in bioreactors to produce the desired proteins. According to reports, now scientists have shown another possible route: making animal proteins using plants as factories. According to a news report published by Phys Org, researchers and collaborators at Imperial College London have genetically engineered lettuce and tobacco plants to make myoglobin, an impo
Scientists trained honeybees to recognise human faces, showing how tiny brains can distinguish faces by the arrangement of their features |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Honeybees can be trained with nothing more than the promise of a sugary reward; they learn to pick out a specific face and keep picking it out later, even when it appears from a slightly different angle or sits among faces they have never encountered before. It is a strange and slightly humbling discovery, not because bees have any use for recognising people, but because it forces a rethink of how much brainpower a task like this actually needs. Two separate studies, a decade apart, chipped away at this question from different angles, and together they tell a fuller story than either one does alone.
French Green leader calls for X to be shut down over ‘supremacist’ Musk’s support for Marine Le Pen– rmx.news
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French Green leader Marine Tondelier has reiterated her calls for social media platform X to be temporarily shut down, claiming its owner Elon Musk is using it to interfere in French politics and promote Marine Le Pen ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
Tondelier, general secretary of the Ecologists and a declared presidential candidate, suggested that suspending X for one month would improve political debate in France.
“If X were to stop for a month, it would do a world of good for the French public debate,” she said, as cited by Libération.
She claimed the platform could not be treated merely as a question of freedom of expression or freedom of enterprise because it was controlled from the United States by an owner seeking to influence European politics.
“This tool is owned by someone based in the United States, with a supremacist ideology, who clearly wants to push Europe into total submission to the United States,” Tondelier said.
She also accused Musk of wanting Le Pen elected and argued that his intervention exposed what she described as the “hypocrisy” of the National Rally’s patriotism.
DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else– www.wired.com
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In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with 80 percent confidence that the storm system would hit Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane.
Hurricane Melissa was catastrophic, causing flooding and landslides across Jamaica. But the AI model helped forecasters give an earlier warning to communities in its path, so they could better prepare.
In a paper published on Thursday in Nature, researchers show the WeatherNext AI model can predict cyclones with unprecedented accuracy. On average, it gives forecasters a day more lead time than existing models; this means its predictions three days out are as accurate as previous models’ predictions two days out. On the ground, that extra day can mean a lot.
“Even a few hours can make a difference,” says Mike Brennan, director of the US National Hurricane Center. Organizing evacuations, staging supplies, and moving resources to respond to a hurricane risk are all time-sensitive tasks—and making the wrong decision can have big consequences. “Time is really golden when it comes to those types of decisions, so the ability to push forecast accuracy out as much as a day beyond what we’ve previously been able to do is really valuable,” he says.
Historically, bringing forecasts forward by a day would take a decade of work, the researchers say.
