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California storms are about to hit. Here’s a timeline of their most severe impacts - San Francisco Chronicle Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, rescuers say - BBC Ukraine's ex-energy minister arrested while attempting to leave country - BBC How the case against a Venezuelan man who was shot by an ICE agent fell apart - CNN Europe Today Looks Different From the One Trump’s Team Describes - The New York Times Massie says he’s lost confidence in Pam Bondi after congressional hearing - Politico Teen girl whose Chicago father was detained in an immigration case dies from a rare cancer - CNN Walk for Peace Buddhist monks arrive in Fort Worth for homecoming celebration - KERA News In First Public Comments Since Trump’s Racist Video, Obama Laments Lost Decorum - The New York Times Democrats’ struggles could be partly because they’re just too old, says Obama - Politico Pope prays for victims of devastating cyclones in Madagascar - Vatican News Motorbike raids on villages kill dozens in Nigeria - BBC Von der Leyen calls to define European mutual defence, rebukes Rutte - Euronews.com As Rubio tries to make amends, China looks to woo Europe - CNN Meet the grandmother living out of a 400-ft ‘granny pod’ to save money and help with child care - Fortune Whether it's a mini-sabbatical or an adult gap year, more people are taking extended work breaks - AP News The AI productivity take-off is finally visible - Financial Times This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like - The Bulwark iOS 27 to include code cleanup and interface tweaks in hopes to boost battery life: report - 9to5Mac Report: Apple’s upcoming low-cost MacBook will come in ‘fun colors,’ launch next month - 9to5Mac Windows 11 KB5077181 Security Update Causing Some Devices to Restart in an Infinite Loop - CybersecurityNews Xbox gets another 26 new games next week - TrueAchievements Box Office: ‘Wuthering Heights’ Predicts $82M Global Bow But ‘GOAT’ Poses Surprise Threat in U.S. - The Hollywood Reporter Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams Hard Launches Girlfriend on Valentine’s Day - Vulture FCC Review Finds No Rule Violations in Bad Bunny Halftime Show: Report - Consequence of Sound Tom Morello on Co-Directing ‘The Ballad of Judas Priest’: ‘What a Time to Be Alive Where You Can Both Make a Documentary About Your Favorite Band and Fight Fascism’ - Variety 2026 NBA All-Star Game live updates: Results, scores, highlights of new USA vs. World format - CBS Sports 2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am leaderboard: Live updates, analysis and highlights from Round 4 - CBS Sports Inside the widening Olympic curling controversy and allegations of cheating - AP News Former UFC champ Cain Velasquez released from prison on parole - ESPN Astronomers puzzle over 'inside out' planetary system - Reuters When AI meets physics: Unlocking complex protein structures to accelerate biomedical breakthroughs - Phys.org These Unsinkable Tubes Could Help Harvest Energy From the Ocean - The New York Times Northern Lights Forecast: Aurora Could Be Visible in These 15 States - Forbes Cardiologists Share 6 Surprising Lifestyle Habits That Boost Heart Health - AOL.com Measles Outbreak Hits Ave Maria University in Florida - The New York Times Scientists reveal what really happens after you die - Yahoo 5 ways losing love affects you and what an expert says you can do to start feeling better - CNN

BBC News

Team GB clinches second gold of day at Winter Olympics Andrew's time as trade envoy should be investigated, says Vince Cable FBI analysing recovered glove that appears to match those worn in Guthrie suspect video Ukraine's ex-energy minister detained while attempting to leave country UK wants action taken on Russia after Navalny frog poisoning, Cooper says What is the dart frog toxin allegedly used to kill Alexei Navalny? No free pass for internet platforms on child safety, Starmer says US attorney general criticised after saying all Epstein files have been released Hundreds of thousands join Iran protests around the world 'Trump will be gone in three years': Top Democrats try to reassure Europe Delivery van 'stuck on deadliest mudflat footpath' France hammer Wales to keep Grand Slam dream alive Why first gold on snow has been just a matter of time GB's Muir in big air final - Monday's guide GB edged out in thriller but semis still in sights Klaebo wins record ninth Winter Olympic gold Death of the sex drive - and the great debate over whether testosterone can help get it back What the Nigella Lawson effect will mean for the Great British Bake Off The spectacular multimillion-euro heist nobody noticed Could Manchester be a model for the UK to kickstart growth? How to get the best view of the Northern Lights in 2026 Iran ready to discuss compromises to reach nuclear deal, minister tells BBC in Tehran Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, rescuers say Ice and flood warnings for parts of UK as cool weather continues Children 'weaponised' by both sides of trans debate, says author of gender identity report US boards second tanker in Indian Ocean after tracking it from Caribbean 'Fast-spreading' measles outbreak hits several schools in London Man dies after entering flood water in police chase BBC News app Has Jeff Bezos brought down the Washington Post? Weston and Stoecker win GB's second Olympic gold of day Will anyone stop 'massive favourites' France in Six Nations? The curious case of Chermiti in Rohl's Rangers revolution Regis adds to parents' legacy with first UK title 'A throwback' - Wolves beat Grimsby in FA Cup mudbath 'India v Pakistan becoming a political rivalry rather than sporting one' Weston and Stoecker make history as Team GB win third Olympic gold

Financial Times (World)

OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger UK to tighten online safety laws to include AI chatbots Trump leans on Utah Republicans to scrap AI safety bill Trump’s Board of Peace gathers in Washington for first meeting Russia’s Wagner Group pivots to European sabotage, say western officials Britain’s penchant for self-destruction Did the US economy show any cracks in the fourth quarter? Baillie Gifford backs CoStar in activist battle Trump sets his eyes on a new Washington trophy: public golf courses ‘We are not afraid’: Venezuelans celebrate first glimpse of reform Ottawa’s shift away from US defence manufacturers aims to create 125,000 jobs ‘The best we can hope for’: Rubio’s Munich unity appeal fails to woo Europe Will Keir Starmer shift to the left? Trade or trap? Japan investors bet on Takaichi after landslide How to get to TV heaven? From Belfast Billionaires and Bibi: the TV deal raising fears in Israel Bad Bunny and the real America Franc’s relentless rise alarms Swiss companies Ukraine’s survival still an ‘open question’, Kyiv mayor warns The rise of the floating gas factory H World aims to be ‘Marriott of China’ with 20,000 hotels India seeks to broker consensus on global ‘AI commons’ US concludes Alibaba and BYD have links to Chinese military Rubio tells Europe that US will not abandon transatlantic alliance Zelenskyy insists elections can only take place two months after a ceasefire

Financial Times (UK)

UK to tighten online safety laws to include AI chatbots Britain’s penchant for self-destruction Did the US economy show any cracks in the fourth quarter? Will Keir Starmer shift to the left? How to get to TV heaven? From Belfast Starmer calls for western alliance to be ‘remade’ Here’s the stupid thing about romance scams Are you ready for UK income tax to go digital? Palestine Action enters legal twilight zone after landmark court ruling Both Britain’s main parties are sinking in the electoral quicksand BoE chief economist urges ‘caution’ before further rate cuts UK student loans discontent grows Mandarin mayhem UK bank bosses’ pay hits highest level in more than a decade UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful UK elections poll tracker The Cancelled Prime Minister — Ramsay MacDonald, Labour’s charismatic and unloved leader Office-to-residential conversions are in decline — but is that so bad? Britain in stand-off with France over funding for cross-Channel cables Keir Starmer’s hiring mistakes create a culture of drift Heathrow feels crowded because Britons and EU travellers ‘keep crashing into each other’, says CEO Starmer set to call for multinational defence initiative to cut rearmament costs The Schroders dynasty is swallowed by US retirees Bankers push to avoid US regulator taking charge of British supervisor How London unwittingly killed housebuilding

The New York Times

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters ‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing Could an Electronic Coach Help Ski Jumpers Leap Farther? More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too. Ring Ends Deal to Link Neighborhood Cameras After Backlash to Super Bowl Ad David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91 Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App F.T.C. Chair Warns Apple Against Bias in Apple News Anthropic Is Valued at $380 Billion in New Funding Round Why Tech Giants Are Accused of Causing Social Media Addiction Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Super PAC Operation to Counter OpenAI Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not ‘Clinically Addictive’ in Landmark Trial OpenAI’s Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon Ford Says Electric Vehicle Losses Will Continue for 3 More Years YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial A.I. Personalizes the Internet but Takes Away Control Meta and YouTube Created ‘Digital Casinos,’ Lawyers Argue in Landmark Trial A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?

The Guardian

Assailants kill at least 32 in north-west Nigerian villages, residents say 53 people dead or missing after migrant boat capsizes in Mediterranean Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian highlife pioneer and guitarist, dies age 90 Weather tracker: Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in central Sudan, says doctors group ‘People want to help’: Canadians rally round Tumbler Ridge after school shooting US boards second oil tanker in Indian Ocean after it fled Venezuelan raid No fuel, no tourists, no cash – this was the week the Cuban crisis got real Venezuelan deportee can return to US but fears repeat of ordeal: ‘I’m not over that nightmare yet’ US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says New Zealand officials warn more flooding could hit north island as man killed after heavy rain University expels student who called for accountability over Hong Kong fire Beijing pastry shop overrun by shoppers after Xi Jinping’s visit CIA publishes recruitment video aimed at disaffected Chinese soldiers Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat inside its economic zone amid Beijing rift Australia news live: accused Bondi shooter Naveed Akram appears in court; court battle begins over Coles’ ‘discounts’ CCTV shows men in SUV kidnapping Chris Baghsarian, 85, who police say was taken by mistake The star rating on food is now mandatory – but some experts think we should scrap it altogether Treasury considering changes to Australia’s contentious tobacco excise, as calls grow for a freeze Australian man died in Bali after consulate refused to assist with medical transfer British and German military chiefs press ‘moral’ case for rearmament UK considers new Russia sanctions after Navalny frog toxin finding EU foreign policy chief criticises ‘fashionable euro-bashing’ by US Offer to join Trump’s new era is met with growing sense of European steeliness ‘Woke Europe not facing civilisational erasure,’ says EU’s Kallas after Rubio’s Munich speech – as it happened At least 12 Palestinians killed and several hurt in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Rallies held across the world in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters Nobel laureate transferred to prison in northern Iran without warning US launches airstrikes on dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria Trump sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East in effort to increase pressure on Iran ‘I feel like a ghost’: new father deported by ICE to Bhutan that exiled his family Bangladesh election: BNP wins historic first vote since overthrow of Hasina ‘Invisible’ children born in the brothels of Bangladesh finally get birth certificates Tarique Rahman promises era of clean politics as Bangladesh holds first election since fall of Hasina ‘Women’s freedoms are at stake’: concern at rise of Islamist party before Bangladesh election Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk face big fines or UK ban Starmer facing calls for inquiry into Labour thinktank’s investigation of journalists Katie’s story: her abusive ex-partner said ‘kill yourself’. When she did, police dropped domestic violence inquiry Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core Fast-spreading measles outbreak takes hold among under-10s in north London Searchers find missing ship in Lake Michigan, over 150 years after it sunk Authorities appeal for video footage as Nancy Guthrie search enters third week with no arrests US teen who pushed for her father’s release from ICE custody dies of cancer Renderings show most detailed vision for Trump’s White House ballroom Progressive Texas organizers hail shock win as far-right Republicans left reeling

Hacker News

Error payloads in Zig Continuous batching from first principles (2025) Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship I’m joining OpenAI GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI Scientists observe a 300M-year-old brain rhythm in several animal species Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 Show HN: Klaw.sh – Kubernetes for AI agents LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door Show HN: DSCI – Dead Simple CI Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

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Nature

Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data CAR-T therapy provides relief for children with autoimmune diseases Parasitic wasps use tamed virus to castrate caterpillars Is social media addictive for teens? US courts wade into scientific debate When a colleague dies: exploring academia's ‘death-denying’ culture How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation ‘I was nearly arrested’: escaping Myanmar’s military leadership for a PhD abroad AI agents are hiring human 'meatspace workers' — including some scientists Publisher Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant Flexible joints: robot morphs into a range of cyborg species How some COVID vaccines triggered rare blood-clot disorder US repeals key ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change is a public threat From ancient temples to bomb craters: explore Laos’s layered history — in photos Self-powered vibration sensor for wearable health care and voice detection Daily briefing: Hunter-gatherers in Europe’s ‘water world’ resisted the switch to farming for millennia Grant proposals drafted with AI help more likely to win NIH funding The ‘astounding’ rise of semaglutide — and what’s next for weight-loss drugs Exercise rewires the brain — boosting the body’s endurance Science funding needs fixing — but not through chaotic reforms Transferable enantioselectivity models from sparse data Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies’ brains An ancient Roman game board’s secrets are revealed — with AI’s help China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct Tiny robot fish could swim through the body powered by ultrasound Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes CSN5i-3 is an orthosteric molecular glue inhibitor of COP9 signalosome Transmission of MPXV from fire-footed rope squirrels to sooty mangabeys Maximizing perovskite electroluminescence with ordered 3D/2D heterojunction Conformational diversity and fully opening mechanism of native NMDA receptor Pre-incision structures reveal principles of DNA nucleotide excision repair Fossil isotope evidence for trophic simplification on modern Caribbean reefs Astrocytes enable amygdala neural representations supporting memory Months-long stability of the head-direction system SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer Targeting excessive cholesterol deposition alleviates secondary lymphoedema Giant magnetocaloric effect and spin supersolid in a metallic dipolar magnet Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source Striatum-wide dopamine encodes trajectory errors separated from value Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields Parity-doublet coherence times in optically trapped polyatomic molecules Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen Large-scale quantum communication networks with integrated photonics African countries must take control of health policy Untapped catalytic ability of aluminium has been unlocked Babies at nursery shape each other’s microbiomes Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European ‘water world’ for millennia Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe? Robust partitioning of cell contents by physical instabilities and biological clocks My ‘detective’ job as a competitive-intelligence consultant for pharma Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves Immune cells could be protected from ‘exhaustion’ by flipping genetic switches Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong Support people and their livelihoods rather than fossil-fuel industries Squirrels could be a reservoir for the virus that causes mpox Charge-neutral electrons are odd — except when they’re even What drugs are safe during pregnancy? There’s a shocking lack of data Daily briefing: The centre of our Galaxy might not be a black hole Clearing trapped cholesterol could relieve lymphoedema 18,000,000 minutes Four ways I ensured my research brought about real-world change Tree rings and salt lakes give clues about ancient rainfall Internet blackout: Iran’s academic shutdown Preserving water under megacities is crucial — and urgent Publishing less won’t save the research system Marine protection in the Azores: a triumph for conservation and sustainability Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent How to rescue the aid industry: focus on conflict prevention, not just relief China’s biotech boom: why the nation must collaborate to stay ahead Daily briefing: Caffeine might reduce dementia risk and slow cognitive decline

CNN

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory Judge in Fox News-Dominion defamation trial: 'The parties have resolved their case' 'Difficult to say with a straight face': Tapper reacts to Fox News' statement on settlement Millions in the US could face massive consequences unless McCarthy can navigate out of a debt trap he set for Biden White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teen who rang his doorbell turns himself in to face criminal charges Newly released video shows scene of Jeremy Renner's snowplow accident Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis spent the Covid-19 lockdown together Toddler crawls through White House fence, prompts Secret Service response Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized nearly a week after 'medical complication' A 13-year-old dies after participating in a Benadryl TikTok 'challenge' See pizza delivery guy take out suspect fleeing police Netflix is winding down its DVD business after 25 years FTC chair Lina Khan warns AI could 'turbocharge' fraud and scams Eating too much of these foods is driving the rise in type 2 diabetes, study says ADHD medication abuse in schools is a 'wake-up call' Apple CEO was presented with an original Macintosh. See his reaction Democrats bash Justice Clarence Thomas but their plan to investigate ethics allegations is unclear Russia is 'going backwards' in equipment and deploying post WWII-era tanks, according to Western officials Two Russians claiming to be former Wagner commanders admit killing children and civilians in Ukraine 'My stomach is hurting from laughing': Hear panelist's reaction to DeSantis' threat to Disney GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciary Oklahoma governor calls on officials to resign over recording of racist and threatening remarks McCarthy slams Biden in handling of US debt US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant Repeated gunshots fired on live TV as ex-lawmaker shot by assassins FDA clears the way for additional bivalent boosters for certain vulnerable individuals Maine authorities detained a person of interest after 4 people were found dead in a home and 3 others shot while driving Southwest says flights resumed after delays caused by 'tech issues' Damar Hamlin cleared to resume football activities after January cardiac arrest Pilot makes history after landing on top of a 56-story hotel Top US Navy admiral defends non-binary sailor amid some Republican criticism Fulton County DA says fake Trump electors are incriminating one another and wants lawyer disqualified High speed trains are racing across the world. But not in America Podcast: One country musician is calling for other artists to oppose assault rifles Here's what you need to know if you haven't filed your return yet — and even if you have Undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes today, too Opinion: Why millionaires like us want to pay more in taxes 'World's longest' purpose-built cycling tunnel opens in Norway Artist rejects photo prize after AI-generated image wins award These ships disappeared in Lake Superior a century ago. Watch as they're found again Erotic images of seniors show sex and intimacy in new light China's economy is off to a solid start, rising 4.5% in Q1 2023 Even when wives make as much as husbands, they still do more at home McDonald's is upgrading its burgers Google-parent stock drops on fears it could lose search market share to AI-powered rivals Bidets save you money and reduce waste — we tested the best options out there 50+ products to make your life easier and our planet cleaner Mother's Day is around the corner. Here are 50+ thoughtful gifts she'll love A head-to-toe guide of how men should dress this spring, and where they should shop 42 of the most useful travel products you can buy on Amazon The 7 best high-yield savings accounts of April 2023 Taxes are due tomorrow. Here's how to file for an extension Composting is an easy way to reduce food waste. Here's how to do it We stopped using aluminum foil for cooking and you should too. Here's what to use instead The beloved Dyson Supersonic hair dryer is at its lowest price ever Everything you need to know about Way Day 2023, Wayfair's biggest sale of the year The 10 best Amazon deals to shop this week Mifepristone saved my life The 2024 presidential alternative many voters will want Why isn't the House Judiciary Committee looking into Thomas? Top secrets come spilling out How did Sudan go from casting off despotic rule to this? Michelle Yeoh set to return in new 'Star Trek' movie Recap: 'Succession' finds dark humor in the aftershocks 'Yellowjackets' leans hard into '90s music nostalgia, and we're here for it Jeremy Renner revisits 'the amazing group of people' who helped him recover from his accident Review: 'Barry' takes a whack at its farewell season

NPR News

FBI: DNA from glove near Guthrie home appears to match glove worn by suspect Trump's border czar says a 'small' security force will stay in Minnesota At least 6,000 killed over 3 days during RSF attack on Sudan's el-Fasher, UN says Obama responds to Trump sharing racist AI video depicting him as an ape Why do humans kiss? Photos: The flying doctors of Lesotho won't let their wings be clipped Rockstar athletes like Ilia Malinin often get 'the yips' at the Olympics. It can make them stronger U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin finishes another Olympic race without a medal 'Major travel impacts' expected as winter storm watch issued for northern California Brazil's Pinheiro Braathen wins gold, and South America's first Winter Olympics medal

The Atlantic

Norway Faces Up to Trump’s Demands for the Nobel Peace Prize Marco Rubio Doesn’t Get It Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: On Target Angelical Salutation of Every Girl in History Words Without Consequence Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless A Prequel TV Series That Surprises Viewers Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: A Victory Leap The Most Sought-After Head of Government in Europe The Rise of Stephen Miller Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night An Enduring Assumption About Love The Clash of Civilizations Was an Inside Job 10 Standout Indie Movies to Watch for This Year This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters Kristi Noem’s Audience of One Why Europe Is Talking About Nukes Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Who Is Fighting Over Nagorno-Karabakh? Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Soaring Through the Dark Trump Is Suing His Own Government The Fine Balance Required of an ‘Authorial Rant’ Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Volodymyr Zelensky Is AI Ruining Music? The Blind Spot at the Top of the World

Vox

One of the hottest therapy styles is scientifically shaky — so why does it seem to work? The real reasons people love playing games Is it love? Or is it an AI romance scam? The Democratic governor building a playbook to resist ICE The real lesson of Trump’s failed prosecution of 6 Democrats One good thing the Trump administration might actually do for science Trump’s biggest war is one he almost never talks about Wikipedia is having a renaissance in the age of AI They backed Trump. Then Border Patrol arrested their neighbor. What now? Is America turning on birth control?

Al Jazeera

Israel bombs Lebanon-Syria border, kills four people Can the UN Security Council be reformed? At least 11 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza Gaza mother’s grim ordeal: A search for missing son among mutilated bodies Is Trumpism losing steam? Ukraine’s ex-energy minister arrested while trying to cross border India rout bitter rivals Pakistan at T20 World Cup Syrian army takes over al-Shaddadi base after US withdrawal India hammer Pakistan to qualify for T20 World Cup Super Eights US ‘not disputing’ European assessment of Navalny poisoning, Rubio says Thousands of Western nationals fought Israel’s war on Gaza: What to know As Sudanese city returns to life after two-year siege, drone threat lingers Iran seeks to get out of FATF blacklist amid domestic political divisions Iran’s Araghchi slams European powers for ‘irrelevance’ in nuclear talks Hasan Piker on influence and journalism in the algorithm age Filmmaker explains why he backs Francesca Albanese amid pressure to resign Cricket fans ready for hotly-anticipated India-Pakistan T20 World Cup clash Gaza author and analyst Jehad Abusalim on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Europeans say Russia poisoned dissident Alexey Navalny with dart frog toxin Israel approves proposal to register West Bank lands as ‘state property’ Gaza’s Nasser Hospital slams MSF’s ‘unsubstantiated’ armed men allegation Trump and Netanyahu align on Iran pressure but split on endgame How the Epstein files exposed victims but protected the powerful From the Balkans with Guns Why are experts sounding the alarm on AI risks?

Ars Technica

Space Station returns to a full crew complement after a month Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations "It ain't no unicorn": These researchers have interviewed 130 Bigfoot hunters NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test A Valentine's Day homage to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical" Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices $1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself What if riders don't close a robotaxi door after a ride? Try DoorDash. Why is Bezos trolling Musk on X with turtle pics? Because he has a new Moon plan. I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent Rocket Report: Say cheerio to Orbex; China is getting good at booster landings Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe's Ariane 6 rocket delivered

Slashdot

Rivian's Stock Spikes 27% After Reporting $144 Million Profit in 2025 India's New Social Media Rules: Remove Unlawful Content in Three Hours, Detect Illegal AI Content Automatically Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case 'Babylon 5' Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube DNA Mutations Discovered In the Children of Chernobyl Workers Oldest Active Linux Distro Slackware Finally Releases Version 15.0 Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges Analysis of JWST Data Finds - Old Galaxies in a Young Universe? Vim 9.2 Released Apple Patches Decade-Old IOS Zero-Day, Possibly Exploited By Commercial Spyware Additional Benefits For Brain, Heart, and Lungs Found for Drugs Like Viagra and Cialis Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT Small Crowd Pays to Watch a Boxing Match Between 80-Pound Chinese Robots US Government Will Stop Pollution-Reduction Credits for Cars With 'Start-Stop' Systems Dates with AI Companions Plagued by Lag, Miscommunications - and General Creepiness

Gizmodo

Sony Dials In For Another ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Movie Emerald Fennell Dishes On Her ‘Really Dark’ Zatanna Script Gettyimages.com Is the Best Website on the Internet Right Now Prepare For ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ With These Toys Pentagon Reportedly Hopping Mad at Anthropic for Not Blindly Supporting Everything Military Does Netflix’s ‘Terminator Zero’ Anime Scrapped After One Season Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says Disney Sends ByteDance an AI Trophy in the Form of a Cease and Desist Letter Over Seedance 2.0 Tubi Becomes the New Cartoon Network Next Month ‘Knights of Guinevere’ Will Officially Return As a Full Series Dems Want to Ban Surveillance Pricing at Big Grocery Stores ‘John Wick’ and ‘Castlevania’ Are the New Frontiers of Video Game Adaptations Trump Affiliates Bannon and Epshteyn Named in ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Crypto Coin Lawsuit A Good Valentine’s Day Gift for These Nice People in the New York Times Would Be to Destroy Their Phones These New ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Posters Go Galactic Hi-Yah! ‘The Muppet Show’ Was a Smash Hit I Went on a Dinner Date With an AI Chatbot. Here’s How It Went. Elon Musk Has Changed His Mission Statement The Best Time to Leave xAI Is Before Joining. The Next Best Time is Right Now Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists

Smithsonian Magazine

An Elephant's Trunk Is Covered in Whiskers—and They're Unlike Those on Any Other Animal, a New Study Suggests These Emily Carr Paintings Will Make You Experience the Beauty of British Columbia's Landscapes in a Completely New Way Five Things to Know About 'Wuthering Heights,' Author Emily Brontë's Only Novel Will a Dazzling Display of Wildflowers Spread Across California This Spring? Earth's Core Might Hold Dozens of Oceans Worth of Hydrogen, Hinting at the Origins of the Planet's Vast Water Supply Seabird Poop May Have Fueled This Pre-Inca Kingdom's Rise to Power in South America A Metal Detectorist Unearthed This Heart-Shaped Tudor Pendant. Now, the British Museum Has Raised Millions to Put It on Public Display Gallop Into the Year of the Horse With These Five Amazing Equine Discoveries Commemorate Presidents’ Day With 15 Images That Celebrate the Founding Fathers Why a Marine Ecologist Was Thrilled to See a Critically Endangered Bird Very Far From Home

InfoQ

LocalStack for AWS Drops Community Edition Raising Developer Concerns Sixteen Claude Agents Built a C Compiler Without Human Intervention... Almost From Paging to Postmortem: Google Cloud SREs on Using Gemini CLI for Outage Response Firestore Adds Pipeline Operations with Over 100 New Query Features Nuxt Studio Released: Open Source CMS for Content Editing in Production Presentation: Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications Teleport Launches Agentic Identity Framework to Secure AI Agents Across Enterprise Infrastructure Podcast: Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era Shadcn Releases Visual Project Builder VillageSQL Launches as an Extension-Focused MySQL Fork OpenAI Scales Single Primary PostgreSQL Instance to Millions of Queries per Second for ChatGPT Creating Impactful Teams through Diversity Using Session 0 WhatsApp Deploys Rust-Based Media Parser to Block Malware on 3 Billion Devices Article: You’ve Generated Your MVP Using AI. What Does That Mean for Your Software Architecture? Presentation: Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Dynomight

Heritability of human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be something different Why read novels? Good if make prior after data instead of before Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities Underrated reasons to be thankful V Make product worse, get money Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts Pointing machines, population pyramids, post office scandal, type species, and horse urine Will the explainer post go extinct? Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and Sea Peoples Dear PendingKetchup You can try to like stuff I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion Futarchy’s fundamental flaw — the market — the blog post Heritability puzzlers New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment Links for July Do blue-blocking glasses improve sleep? Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027 The AI safety problem is wanting Thoughts on the AI 2027 discourse Moral puzzles: Man vs. machine Please take my weird moral puzzles quiz Futarchy’s fundamental flaw Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment My advice on (internet) writing, for what it’s worth DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum The Heat Mirage: My least-favorite internet maneuver

Marginal Revolution

At the Grand Egyptian Museum Sunday assorted links Natural and Artificial Ice The economics of corporate espionage Taxing Beta, Exempting Alpha: A Benchmark-Based Inheritance Regime Minimum wage hikes and robots Saturday assorted links The cocaine problem seems to be getting worse again Changes in the Gender Wage Gap for Business Professionals My WaPo podcast with Megan McArdle Friday assorted links Those new service sector jobs The import of cross-task productivity Oliver Kim reviews *How Africa Works* Optimal timing for superintelligence

Not Boring

Weekly Dose of Optimism #180 Weekly Dose of Optimism #179 Raising a Special Little AI Weekly Dose of Optimism #178 Weekly Dose of Optimism #177 The Venezuela Opportunity 16 Lessons on Selling (and Life) from My 5-Year-Old Weekly Dose of Optimism #176 Many Small Steps for Robots, One Giant Leap for Mankind Weekly Dose of Optimism #175 a16z: The Power Brokers welcome to not boring world My 5 Favorite Not Boring Essays of 2025 Weekly Dose of Optimism #174 Weekly Dose of Optimism #173 Hardware is a Fruit Weekly Dose of Optimism #172 Cable Caballero Weekly Dose of Optimism #171 Weekly Dose of Optimism #170

Coding Horror

Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income Let's Talk About The American Dream Stay Gold, America The Great Filter Comes For Us All I Fight For The Users The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing The Rise of the Electric Scooter Electric Geek Transportation Systems An Exercise Program for the Fat Web The Cloud Is Just Someone Else’s Computer What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

NASA Breaking News

Crew-12 Launches NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Launches to International Space Station Sunlight Extracts Oxygen From Regolith Using Solar Chemistry Stonebreen’s Beating Heart NASA Selects Vast for Sixth Private Mission to Space Station NASA Moon Mission Spacesuit Nears Milestone Shimmering Light in Egg Nebula Reaching Top Speed in the Dolomites NASA Completes First Flight of Laminar Flow Scaled Wing Design I Am Artemis: Jesse Berdis

Quanta Magazine

Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World

Science Daily

Large study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccine in pregnancy and autism Stop eating 3 hours before bed to improve heart health AI uncovers the hidden genetic control centers driving Alzheimer’s Scientists found a way to plant ideas in dreams to boost creativity Brain inspired machines are better at math than expected This planet friendly diet could cut your risk of early death by 23% This breakthrough could finally unlock male birth control Psychedelics may work by shutting down reality and unlocking memory Couples who savor happy moments together have stronger, longer-lasting relationships The human exposome could change everything we know about disease Rocky planet discovered in outer orbit challenges planet formation theory Astronomers watch a massive star collapse into a black hole without a supernova Why some kids struggle with math even when they try hard Scientists used brain stimulation to make people more generous Roman mosaic in Britain reveals a 2,000 year old Trojan War secret Scientists discover hidden brain cells that help heal spinal cord injuries Omega-3 fish oil supplements could backfire without this key enzyme This vegan diet cut insulin use by nearly 30% in type 1 diabetes Twin beams blast from a hidden star in stunning Hubble Space Telescope image Twisted 2D magnet creates skyrmions for ultra dense data storage Scientists make microplastics glow to see what they do inside your body New calcium-ion battery design delivers high performance without lithium The exact speed that makes an AI prosthetic arm feel like your own Scientists discover protein that rejuvenates aging brain cells Scientists discover hidden trigger behind achilles pain and tennis elbow 60,000 years ago humans were already using poisoned arrows Europe’s “untouched” wilderness was shaped by Neanderthals and hunter-gatherers Yellowstone wolves may not have transformed the national park after all Astronomers discover an Earth-like planet that may be colder than Mars NASA scientists say meteorites can’t explain mysterious organic compounds on Mars The worst coral bleaching event ever recorded damaged over 50% of reefs Massive study finds most statin side effects aren’t caused by the drugs Snowball Earth was not completely frozen, new study reveals Asteroid Bennu reveals a new pathway to life’s chemistry Radar evidence suggests a massive lava tube beneath Venus Scientists discover a hidden gut bacterium linked to good health Scientists find nerves actively fuel pancreatic cancer Changing when you eat dramatically reduced Crohn’s disease symptoms Life may have started as sticky goo clinging to rocks Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system One simple daily change that could slash depression risk This kefir and fiber combo beat omega-3 in slashing inflammation Blockbuster weight loss drugs like Ozempic deliver big results but face big questions H5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off James Webb reveals extraordinary organic molecules in an ultra luminous infrared galaxy Just 5 weeks of brain training may protect against dementia for 20 years Astronomers shocked by how these giant exoplanets formed Almost every forest bird in Hawaiʻi is spreading avian malaria Tracking global water circulation using atomic fingerprints Scientists discover pets are helping an invasive flatworm spread This ancient animal was one of the first to eat plants on land Everyone thought autism mostly affected boys. This study says otherwise Methane spiked after 2020 and the cause was unexpected Scientists find genes that existed before all life on Earth This bedroom temperature could help older adults sleep with less stress Depression may be the brain’s early warning sign of Parkinson’s or dementia Your cat’s purr says more than you think Scientists just made living blood vessels on a chip that act like real ones Scientists uncover the climate shock that reshaped Easter Island Scientists discover how life experiences rewrite the immune system

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch predawn Starlink mission on President’s Day Replacement crew docks at space station, boosts crew back to seven SpaceX launches 600th Falcon 9 rocket to date with Starlink flight from Vandenberg ‘Very lucky day’: NASA, SpaceX ace astronaut launch to the space station on Friday the 13th NASA loading liquid hydrogen aboard Artemis 2 rocket in unannounced test Vulcan suffers solid rocket booster problem during USSF-87 launch ULA to launch geosynchronous orbit surveillance satellite for the U.S. Space Force SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB ULA sets sights on ramping up launch cadence in 2026 Weather delays NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 flight to the International Space Station

Space Daily

International crew takes off for space station Europe's most powerful rocket carries 32 satellites for Amazon Leo network into space Strange 'inside-out' planetary system baffles astronomers Chance glimpse of star collapse offers new insight into black hole formation UK space firm Skyrora explores buying assets of struggling rival Orbex Ariane 6 four booster launcher completes on schedule mission AST SpaceMobile deploys record low orbit cellular array on BlueBird 6 Stoke Space expands Series D funding to $860M to drive Nova launch development China verifies Long March 10 booster splashdown and crew escape in key lunar test Titan may have formed in a giant impact between ancient Saturn moons NASA Stennis proves water systems ready for Artemis IV upper stage trials JUNO VR system brings detector events into immersive 3D space Debris disc oddities point to hidden outer planets Mars' 'Young' Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought xAI sees key staff exits, Musk promises moon factories

Space News

Isaacman planning to meet with head of Roscosmos NASA continues SLS hydrogen leak tests A new book captures the forces shaping space: China, the moon and industry Senate committee advances FCC satellite licensing bill after changes Startup bets on new approach to space-based missile defense Crew-12 launches to ISS Vast wins ISS private astronaut mission China’s iSpace launch firm raises record $729 million for reusable rockets Space startups find more paths to liquidity as investors warm to maturing sector First Ariane 64 launches Amazon Leo satellites Axiom Space raises additional $350 million ThinKom gets military contract to supply portable ground stations for satellite communications It is time to take astronomy off Earth Software startup Integrate makes push into defense market following Space Force award Launch companies debate how to compete against SpaceX ULA’s Vulcan launches Space Force mission; solid booster anomaly under investigation FCC Space Bureau chief shares agenda for regulatory reform SpaceX IPO may suck oxygen from market before unleashing broad capital surge UK launcher Orbex files for administration after failed funding efforts Space companies bet on Golden Dome as questions persist over scope and funding Integrate Raises $17M to Commercialize the World’s First Ultra-Secure Project Management Platform for Classified Programs Demand for sovereign systems extends to the Earth-observation stack The Exploration Company completes water-impact tests for its Nyx space capsule Register Now: New Approaches to Collapse Space Kill Chains

Martin Fowler

Fragments: February 13 Fragments: February 9 Context Engineering for Coding Agents Fragments: February 4 Bliki: Excessive Bold Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent Fragments: January 22 Conversation: LLMs and the what/how loop Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization My favorite musical discoveries of 2025 Fragments: January 8 Fragments: December 16 Writing Fragments Fragments Dec 11 Fragments Dec 4 Fragments Nov 19 My Foreword to "Frictionless" The Learning Loop and LLMs Fragments Nov 3 Agentic AI and Security Fragments and Links Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl Anchoring AI to a reference application To vibe or not to vibe Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development From Black Box to Blueprint Research, Review, Rebuild: Intelligent Modernisation with MCP and Strategic Prompting Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI Chatting with Unmesh about building language with LLMs Bliki: Expansion Joints

Embedded Artistry

Battling Perfectionism in Creation Pushing Git Submodule Commits Automatically Monorepo Tooling Update: Signed Commit Support in Git 2.52 The After-Hours Consulting Trap Configuring Git Remotes: Fetch Only One Branch and No Tags What I’ve Been Up To (20251205) Life After Burnout Automating Away the Fun Parts Creating Deterministic Zip Files with Git Commit Timestamps Papers in Systems: Schön on Dynamic Conservatism Reclaim Your Data: Freeing a Wi-Fi Sensor from the Cloud 2022-2023 Quarterly Discussion Panel Archives Exploring Serverless CI/CD for Embedded Devices How to cherry-pick Specific Files from a Commit 2023 in Review Managing Issues and Improving Products After Launch Resolving Git Commit History Divergence Due to Case-Sensitive Rename Operations Responses to the Commentariat on the -Werror Article Leveraging Your Toolchain to Improve Security Best Practices for Safeguarding Your Connected Devices Q&A: How Do You Stay on the Path and Make it to “Done”? Q&A: How Many Iterations Do You Recommend for Scaling From a Prototype to Mass Production? Q&A: To What Degree Should We Understand Other Disciplines? Meson Pattern: Monorepo that Supports Individual Subproject Builds From Concept to Launch: What It Takes to Build and Ship a New Device The Simple Fixes on the Quest for Improved Performance Schrödinger’s Meeting Building a Simplified CLI Using Invoke (for Monorepo Management) Replacing find Shell Commands with Python Q&A: What Pieces of the OTA Update Pipeline Should You Front Load?

Attack Magazine

To the MAX: How Cherry Audio Turned the Roland SH-5 Into a Soft Synth Butch – “Creativity Comes From Working, Not Waiting” You Can Now Build Your Own Plugins Without C++ Knowledge NOT BAD FOR A GIRL Issues Open Letter on Line-Up Inequality FabFilter Pro-C 3: The Most Fun You Can Have With A Compressor Liquid Hoover Bass Novation Launch Control XL 3 Native Instruments Enters Preliminary Insolvency Proceedings Best of NAMM 2026 for Electronic Music Producers Akai Launches New Flagship MPC – The MPC XL

DJ TechTools

The DJM-V5 from AlphaTheta: 3 channels, 4-band EQ, V10 sound – no Beat FX or crossfader. Traktor MX2: Native Instruments’ New 2-Channel Controller Akai Launches MPC Live III Standalone With 8-Core Processor, Clip Matrix, Stems, and 3D Pads Ableton launches Live 12 Suite rent-to-own plan – and it’s not a subscription Meet the TR-1000: Roland’s new analog/digital drum machine with built-in sampling Spotify (finally) slides into Rekordbox, Serato, and Algoriddim djay (again) – for better or worse? The CDJ-3000X is here: an iterative upgrade of the media player for $3,000 / £2,399 Review: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 4th Gen