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In the past, forests around the world were cut down on a massive scale. We lost some of the world’s richest ecosystems.In recent decades, the picture has become more complex. Deforestation has not ended, but it is no longer happening everywhere. Since 1990, some regions have continued to lose large areas of forest, while others have slowed this long-run trend — and even reversed it.The map shows regional changes in forest area based on the latest data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Deforestation has been particularly large in South America and Africa. At the same time, the forested area has expanded in Europe, North and Central America, and large parts of Asia. These gains show that deforestation is not inevitable. When pressure on land falls, forests can return.I previously wrote about why deforestation is happening, and what we can do to bring the long history of deforestation to an end.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Valve for "illegally promoting gambling" through the loot box systems it has built for video games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2, according to a press release. The attorney general seeks to "permanently stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York's laws." "This loot box model that Valve has developed - charging an individual for a chance to win something of value based on luck alone - is quintessential gambling, prohibited under New York's Constitution and Penal Law," the lawsuit says. Valve … Read the full story at The Verge.

Crypto rebounds sharply from Tuesday's lows, yet traders question whether the move marks a lasting turn or another range-bound bounce.

Kyler Murray is headed toward a divorce with the Cardinals, but he wants it on his terms.

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 phones introduce a slate of new AI-powered features, including some new photography tools. | Image: Samsung Samsung has just announced its new Galaxy S26 lineup, which includes the S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra. While they aren't radical departures from last year's models, they bring a handful of notable upgrades. All three run on Qualcomm's Galaxy-centric Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which delivers improved performance and powers a slew of new AI-based features. This includes the ability to screen unknown calls and edit photos by typing what you want changed, along with an update to Google Gemini that can carry out certain tasks in supported third-party apps, like Uber and DoorDash, on your behalf. Starting at $899.99, the S26 is the smallest and mo … Read the full story at The Verge.

Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge.

The Drop Mythic Journey keyboard from 2022. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge The Drop store, which was acquired by gaming gear giant Corsair in 2023, was a haven for mechanical keyboard enthusiasts and audiophiles to discover and buy hard-to-find gear - sometimes at surprisingly good prices. The company will cease sales after March 25th at 11:59PM PT, which is also the cut off to redeem Drop Rewards. After March 31st, the site will be accessible for a limited time to view order history, but all retail functionality will shift to Corsair. Corsair's marketing manager Andrew Williams confirmed to The Verge that several products featured on Drop will be integrated into Corsair's site for purchase. Select others will be … Read the full story at The Verge.

The AI bellwether reported $68 billion revenue last quarter, expecting it to grow to $78 billion next quarter.

Samsung's Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.

NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson explained why he's now hopping in a truck and his mentality throughout a widespread career.

New Browns coach Todd Monken plans to have Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel and Deshaun Watson battle for the starting QB job.

Outside of quarterback, which non-quarterback would you start your team with? We asked 42 draft prospects that in our NFL Combine Survey.

After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

Court to search devices itself instead of letting government have full access.

Until proven otherwise, Japan still sits on the throne as the kings of World Baseball Classic.

For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative, called the "Tech Corps," threatens to unravel the agency's original mission by recruiting de facto Silicon Valley salespeople to promote the biggest names in AI - many of which have ties to President Donald Trump. Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, the Peace Corps recruited skilled Americans interested in assisting developing countries in industries like education, healthcare, and agriculture. As noted by the Brookings Institution, the agency was created to "win the … Read the full story at The Verge.

President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans' concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech - and now we're learning that the deals he promised could land next week. Trump claimed that he's negotiated a "rate payer protection pledge" with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay for new electricity generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI are expected to attend a March 4th event to sign the pledge, Fox News reported today. There are very few details at this point on what the pledge entails, nor how companies would be held ac … Read the full story at The Verge.

FOX Sports' bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy offers up his first men's NCAA Tournament seed list of the season.

Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S26 lineup at its recent Unpacked event in San Francisco. As expected, the new series consists of the baseline S26, which starts at $899.99, and the bigger S26 Plus, which starts at $1,099.99. At the high end, there's also the $1,299.99 S26 Ultra, which is the largest in the lineup and comes with a bigger battery, better cameras, S Pen support, and expanded options for both storage and RAM. The price difference between Samsung's cheapest and most expensive S26 phones is $400 (last year, it was $500). While some of its updated Galaxy AI software features are new, it's another year of minor hardware updates for Sam … Read the full story at The Verge.

The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems.

Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multistep tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference - before Apple delayed those planned features in March 2025 and which still aren't released. Onstage, Sameer Samat, Google's president of Android, showed off a demo of how Gemini's new agentic features would work to help wrangle a pizza dinner order from his busy family group chat. Samat asks Gem … Read the full story at The Verge.

Latest data hints that benefits seen so far could be underestimates.

As expected, Samsung has taken the wraps off its flagship lineup for 2026. Introduced during the company's recent Unpacked event, the new Galaxy devices - which include the standard S26, the larger S26 Plus, and the high-end S26 Ultra - will be available on March 11th. Preorders are now open ahead of launch, with pricing starting at $899.99 for the base-model S26, $1,099.99 for the Plus, and $1,299.99 for the Ultra. Overall, the forthcoming S26 lineup looks largely similar to last year's S25 series, only with a handful of notable upgrades. The biggest changes this year are on the software side, with Samsung introducing a privacy display in … Read the full story at The Verge.

The company said it punished the MrBeast employee and another user it said tried to get away with contracts relying on inside information.

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

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Hear from the drivers themselves (anonymously of course) on hot topics ahead of the 2026 INDYCAR season.

A video has circulated of a doctor telling Deion Sanders he was worried about the Colorado head coach losing a leg last season.

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RAM represented about 15 to 18 percent of PC costs last quarter, HP said.

Kalshi, the prediction betting market, has disclosed its first fines for insider trading, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In addition to handing down a $20,000 fine to a MrBeast editor, Kalshi also charged a California gubernatorial candidate over $2,000 after a video on X "appeared to show him trading on his own candidacy." In a notice on Wednesday, Kalshi claims MrBeast editor Artem Kaptur traded about $4,000 on YouTube streaming markets, violating its insider trading rules. "Our surveillance systems flagged his near-perfect trading success on markets with low odds, which were statistically anomalous," Bobby DeNault, legal … Read the full story at The Verge.

A look at who's who and what they are playing for in the men's and women's college basketball mid-major Mountain West.

Cited in the 2008 Bitcoin white paper, Back argued volatility is typical even as regulatory clarity and institutional access expands.

I recently came across an interesting challenge involving JSON decoding in Swift. I wanted to see how our popular online resources would handle a messy, repetitive data structure. The problem arises when you encounter a legacy API or a poorly structured response that uses “flat” numbered properties instead of clean arrays.

Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S26, Google’s Gemini can automate tasks in popular mobile apps. We got a live demo of the new feature in action.

Samsung’s new phones all get AI enhancements, and the flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra has a Privacy Display that can block the screen from nosy neighbors.

Gemini can now prep a rideshare or grocery order, though you’ll have to submit the order yourself. | Image: Google Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant. Starting with some Pixel 10 phones and the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, Gemini will be able to hail an Uber or put together a DoorDash order on its own. It's called task automation, and it starts with a prompt to Gemini - something like "Get me an Uber to the Palace of Fine Arts." Gemini then launches the app in a virtual window on your device and goes through the process step-by-step. You can watch it all happen, with options to stop the automation or take control if necessary, or just let it run in the background while Gemini does its thing. The assistant … Read the full story at The Verge.

The crypto lender suspended client deposits and withdrawals earlier this month due to recent market and financial conditions.

Coinciding with the FCA’s announcement of its stablecoin trial, Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong criticized the U.K.’s regulatory process, saying it puts the region's global crypto leadership at risk.

Google on Wednesday disclosed that it worked with industry partners to disrupt the infrastructure of a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as UNC2814 that breached at least 53 organizations across 42 countries. "This prolific, elusive actor has a long history of targeting international governments and global telecommunications organizations across Africa, Asia, and the Americas,"

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Michael Henricks brings more than 30 years of experience across technology, business services, and financial services organizations. He will oversee global finance operations, leading financial planning, operational efficiency, and long-term strategy as One Identity continues to expand its footprint.

The online marketplace said it will embed Tether's crypto wallet tools and USDT, USAT tokens to power crypto payments for over 18 million users.

Which QB do you trust the most to win you a game? Which coach would you most like to play for? Those were some of the questions we asked 42 NFL Draft prospects in our combine survey.

Comdex has announced the launch of its proprietary blockchain intelligence platform, Comdex TraceOS. The system is designed to support investigations across major cryptocurrencies and networks. The FBI describes cryptocurrency investment fraud, commonly referred to as “pig butchering,” as one of the most prevalent and damaging fraud schemes.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Gregory Mall of Lionsoul Global on how ETFs have shifted a growing share of bitcoin volatility into U.S. equity options markets.

The Fellowship political action committee promised $100 million, with reports that Tether may have been tied as a backer, but the fund has so far delivered zero.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant, that could result in remote code execution and theft of API credentials. "The vulnerabilities exploit various configuration mechanisms, including Hooks, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and environment variables – executing

Phemex unveiled the [AI Bot], a milestone of the Phemex AI-Native Revolution. PhemEx AI Bot automates complex quantitative strategies across Futures Grid, Spot Grid, and Martingale systems. Engineered with a "Risk-Aware Intelligence" , the engine prioritizes capital preservation.

Apache Airflow is an open-source data-driven analytics tool. It can be used to pull raw data from S3, clean it, join it against a customer dimension table, aggregate it into a revenue summary, and land it in the warehouse by 7 am. The company's analytics team needed a daily pipeline: pull raw event data, join against a slowly-changing table, and aggregate it to a daily summary.

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BingX announces the full integration of[ BingX TradFi] into the broader BingX ecosystem. The development reflects a broader industry trend projected for 2026: traditional finance is increasingly embracing cryptocurrencies, while the crypto sector continues to integrate with traditional finance.

I needed observability for my Go Telegram bot running on a free VPS with only 4 GB of RAM, where the app already used ~2 GB. After comparing tools by RAM usage, I chose Prometheus (metrics), Loki (logs), Promtail (log collector), and Grafana (dashboards) — the entire stack fits in ~1 GB. The article covers structured logging with slog, exposing metrics via promauto, Docker Compose configs with memory limits, Loki/Promtail/Prometheus setup, and building Grafana dashboards stored as JSON in the repo.

NFL scouts and executives say Fernando Mendoza's grit and ability to make plays in the clutch will serve him well at the next level.

Ether, solana and dogecoin are among the altcoins posting 10% or more advances.

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The company's stock has lost about two-thirds of its value since peaking last year, nearly in step with bitcoin's record price above $126,000.

In an era where AI can generate content instantly, the real challenge is writing in a way that is uniquely yours—creating work no model or copycat can replicate.

The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said in a new threat brief. The group is said to be offering anywhere between $500 and $1,000 upfront per call, in addition to

Break above $1.37 draws strong spot demand, with ETF inflows and retail buying suggesting positioning shift.

A/B testing is a powerful but costly tool in product development. While it improves measurement accuracy, it slows execution. Teams should reserve experiments for high-risk, high-uncertainty decisions—like pricing changes or complex KPI shifts—and skip them when implementing best practices, fixing broken UX, or launching clearly requested features. In early-stage products, speed often matters more than statistical precision.

Lower expected gains from traditional assets have prompted some funds to test bitcoin and ether exposure to diversify portfolios.

This study evaluates LEGS, a 3D language-guided mapping system, across large indoor environments using open-vocabulary object recall tasks. LEGS achieves comparable object localization performance to LERF but reduces training time from 44 minutes to 12 minutes. Experiments also show that global bundle adjustment significantly improves Gaussian splat reconstruction quality across camera configurations, reducing artifacts and enhancing photorealism—highlighting the critical role of camera setup and optimization in scalable 3D scene understanding.

Triage is supposed to make things simpler. In a lot of teams, it does the opposite. When you can’t reach a confident verdict early, alerts turn into repeat checks, back-and-forth, and “just escalate it” calls. That cost doesn’t stay inside the SOC; it shows up as missed SLAs, higher cost per case, and more room for real threats to slip through. So where does triage go wrong? Here are five triage

CEO was summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology.

Avalanche (AVAX), up 12.9% from Tuesday, was also among the top performers.

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins is a marquee speaker at a policy summit backed by Unicoin, whose CEO says the agency chief is being duped by his staff.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four malicious NuGet packages that are designed to target ASP.NET web application developers to steal sensitive data. The campaign, discovered by Socket, exfiltrates ASP.NET Identity data, including user accounts, role assignments, and permission mappings, as well as manipulates authorization rules to create persistent backdoors in victim applications.

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The issuer of the USDC stablecoin posted EPS of 43 cents for the fourth quarter, beating the consensus estimate of 16 cents. The shares surged as much as 29%.

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Richard Blumenthal sent Binance co-chief Richard Teng a letter asking him for records about the exchange’s dealings with Iran-linked entities and the alleged dismissal of its investigators.

Bitcoin rose as much as 3.7% overnight before paring gains, while altcoins outperformed and the altcoin season indicator hit its highest level since January.

Iuliia Kozlova, among the first Kubestronauts in Russia, reveals how she became a leading QA and DevOps expert. Her experience spans national-scale projects like Zvuk, Rutube, and Sber, combining Kubernetes, OpenShift, and DevOps expertise. Through certifications, hands-on practice, and strategic soft skills, she demonstrates the path from engineer to recognized industry leader, inspiring the next generation of cloud-native professionals.

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Hash Ribbon recovery and sub production pricing suggest the worst of the bitcoin drawdown may have passed.

This article presents a robotic system that incrementally reconstructs large indoor environments using multi-camera Gaussian Splatting and global bundle adjustment, while embedding language-aligned features to localize objects from open-vocabulary natural-language queries in real time.

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The Fremont ACM Chapter hosted “Technology Trends Shaping Modern Industry” at the Fremont Downtown Event Center, bringing together leaders from Palo Alto Networks, Oracle, Visa, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Zscaler and others. Sessions covered agentic AI, Hybrid RAG, Zero Trust identity, BESS energy systems, and scalable data platforms shaping modern enterprise infrastructure.

Technical debt isn’t harmless backlog—it’s hidden structural risk. Using a racecar analogy, Doug Needham explains how cutting engineering corners under business pressure creates high-stakes failure scenarios. When PMs override technical expertise, organizations gamble with performance, security, and stability. Engineers have a duty to sound the alarm before “turn 3” becomes catastrophic.

There’s a good way to throw out the ISS. And then there’s a really bad way.

Why automating sensitive data transfers is now a mission-critical priority More than half of national security organizations still rely on manual processes to transfer sensitive data, according to The CYBER360: Defending the Digital Battlespace report. This should alarm every defense and government leader because manual handling of sensitive data is not just inefficient, it is a systemic

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Short interest in MSTR equals 14% of market cap, yet much of the positioning may reflect basis trades rather than outright bets on a continued decline.

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the criminal group’s embrace of technology.

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A 39-year-old Australian national who was previously employed at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris has been sentenced to a little over seven years in prison for selling eight zero-day exploits to Russian exploit broker Operation Zero in exchange for millions of dollars. Peter Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets in October 2025. In addition to the jail term, Williams

Growth of tether and other top stablecoins has stalled, posing risk to the broader crypto market.

SolarWinds has released updates to address four critical security flaws in its Serv-U file transfer software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities, all rated 9.1 on the CVSS scoring system, are listed below - CVE-2025-40538 - A broken access control vulnerability that allows an attacker to create a system admin user and execute arbitrary

The Ethereum co-founder's tracked wallets dropped from 241,000 ETH to 224,000 ETH in February, with sales routed through CoW Protocol in small batches to limit market impact.

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered U.S. crypto bank, has added perpetual preferred stock in bitcoin treasury firm Strategy to its balance sheet.

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a recently disclosed vulnerability in FileZen to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-25108 (CVSS v4 score: 8.7), is a case of operating system (OS) command injection that could allow an authenticated user to execute

The sharper the mind, the more elaborate the justification for staying wrong. Depth of thought becomes the mechanism of loss when it serves identity.

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The APEX-Agents benchmark tested frontier models on real professional tasks (banking, consulting, law) Models score above 90% on coding puzzles and multiple-choice tests, then fail at the kind of work an analyst does on a Tuesday morning.

Bigger context windows help, but not enough. Learn how Recursive Language Models improve long-context reasoning with better scaling and stable performance.

Spare a thought for the intrepid graduate students who spent last summer in Africa collecting chimp urine.

The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data.

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UK agency alleges "Reddit failed to apply any robust age assurance mechanism."

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A vulnerability in GitHub Codespaces could have been exploited by bad actors to seize control of repositories by injecting malicious Copilot instructions in a GitHub issue. The artificial intelligence (AI)-driven vulnerability has been codenamed RoguePilot by Orca Security. It has since been patched by Microsoft following responsible disclosure. "Attackers can craft hidden instructions inside a

Apple is still working to get favorable tariff treatment from the Trump administration.

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A Russia-aligned threat actor has been observed targeting a European financial institution as part of a social engineering attack to likely facilitate intelligence gathering or financial theft, signaling a possible expansion of the threat actor's targeting beyond Ukraine and into entities supporting the war-torn nation. The activity, which targeted an unnamed entity involved in regional

AMD will supply 6 gigawatts' worth of chips to buttress Meta's AI efforts.

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Most identity programs still prioritize work the way they prioritize IT tickets: by volume, loudness, or “what failed a control check.” That approach breaks the moment your environment stops being mostly-human and mostly-onboarded. In modern enterprises, identity risk is created by a compound of factors: control posture, hygiene, business context, and intent. Any one of these can perhaps be

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus) has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the Middle East, according to a new report by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team. Broadcom's threat intelligence division said it also identified the same threat actors mounting an unsuccessful attack against a healthcare

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In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

From small art schools to large public universities, the new DOJ release of emails reveals just how deep the financier’s influence in academia went. Students are demanding accountability.

Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits- by Julian BagginiRead on Aeon

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The threat activity cluster known as UnsolicitedBooker has been observed targeting telecommunications companies in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, marking a shift from prior attacks aimed at Saudi Arabian entities. The attacks involve the deployment of two distinct backdoors codenamed LuciDoor and MarsSnake, according to a report published by Positive Technologies last week. "The group used several

The Netherlands was the first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001. Since then, almost 40 other countries have followed suit.You can see this in the chart, based on data from Pew Research. By 2025, same-sex marriage was legal in 39 countries.Last year, two countries were added to the total. Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, and a same-sex marriage bill also took effect in Liechtenstein.Explore all our writing and data on LGBT+ rights.

Anthropic on Monday said it identified "industrial-scale campaigns" mounted by three artificial intelligence (AI) companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, to illegally extract Claude's capabilities to improve their own models. The distillation attacks generated over 16 million exchanges with its large language model (LLM) through about 24,000 fraudulent accounts in violation of its terms

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The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting specific entities in Western and Central Europe. The activity, per S2 Grupo's LAB52 threat intelligence team, was active between September 2025 and January 2026. It has been codenamed Operation MacroMaze. "The campaign relies on basic tooling and the exploitation of legitimate services

This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown by a conservative women's magazine.

inside anduril's race to build america's first autonomous fighter jet — and the pentagon's bet that robotic airpower will redefine warfare in the decades to come

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new cryptojacking campaign that uses pirated software bundles as lures to deploy a bespoke XMRig miner program on compromised hosts. "Analysis of the recovered dropper, persistence triggers, and mining payload reveals a sophisticated, multi-stage infection prioritizing maximum cryptocurrency mining hashrate, often destabilizing the victim

Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.

Security news rarely moves in a straight line. This week, it feels more like a series of sharp turns, some happening quietly in the background, others playing out in public view. The details are different, but the pressure points are familiar. Across devices, cloud services, research labs, and even everyday apps, the line between normal behavior and hidden risk keeps getting thinner. Tools

As more organizations run their own Large Language Models (LLMs), they are also deploying more internal services and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to support those models. Modern security risks are being introduced less from the models themselves and more from the infrastructure that serves, connects and automates the model. Each new LLM endpoint expands the attack surface, often in

We may know Pompeii for its destruction, but this intricate 3D rendering brings to life what a bustling city it once was- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness- by Carlos SantanaRead on Aeon

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what they say is an active "Shai-Hulud-like" supply chain worm campaign that has leveraged a cluster of at least 19 malicious npm packages to enable credential harvesting and cryptocurrency key theft. The campaign has been codenamed SANDWORM_MODE by supply chain security company Socket. As with prior Shai-Hulud attack waves, the malicious code embedded

The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Earth Vetala, Mango Sandstorm, and MUDDYCOAST) has targeted several organizations and individuals mainly located across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as part of a new campaign codenamed Operation Olalampo. The activity, first observed on January 26, 2026, has resulted in the deployment of new malware families that share

A failure in the helium flow of the SLS rocket has prompted NASA to delay the Artemis II moon mission. Rather than March 6, the launch is now targeted for April.

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A Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor has been observed taking advantage of commercial generative artificial intelligence (AI) services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices located in 55 countries. That's according to new findings from Amazon Threat Intelligence, which said it observed the activity between January 11 and February 18, 2026. "No exploitation of FortiGate

Plus: The cybersecurity community grapples with Epstein files revelations, the US State Department plans an online anti-censorship “portal” for the world, and more.

From disappointments to scandals to Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ silver medal, figure skating brought some of the biggest surprises of the Milano Cortina Games. We talked to Adam Rippon to find out why.

Following increased surveillance and patrols of routes used by transnational drug-trafficking networks, Mexican authorities have seized approximately 10 tons of cocaine in the past week alone.

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user's software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest patches. The capability, called Claude Code Security, is currently available in a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers. "It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Roundcube webmail software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-49113 (CVSS score: 9.9) - A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that allows remote code

The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades.The decline in China was particularly fast, and given that one in six people in the world lives there, we’re often asked whether the decline in global poverty was only due to the decline in China.The chart shows the data that answers this question. In blue, we see the global decline. In red, we see the decline if we exclude China from the data. In the world outside of China, 33% lived in extreme poverty in 1990; by 2025, this share was down to 12%.The large economic growth that lifted 940 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty since 1990 was a major contributor to the global decline in poverty. But the non-Chinese world also achieved a very large reduction.It is not true that the global decline in poverty was only due to China. Extreme poverty has declined in China and the rest of the world.In the last three decades, the world has made progress against extreme poverty faster than ever before. But as we explain in a recent article, unless the poorest economies start growing, this period of progress against the worst form of poverty is over.

With $5.5 trillion in global AI risk exposure and 700,000 U.S. workers needing reskilling, four new AI certifications and Certified CISO v4 help close the gap between AI adoption and workforce readiness. EC-Council, creator of the world-renowned Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) credential and a global leader in applied cybersecurity education, today launched its Enterprise AI Credential Suite,

What scientists thought were four separate star clusters are actually part of one nearly invisible system.

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had only acting directors—and the White House won’t say when that will change.

Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to conduct a wide range of malicious actions, including deploying VShell and The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), allows attackers to execute operating system commands in the context of the

In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that has become exceedingly popular in the past few months. "On February 17, 2026, at 3:26 AM PT, an unauthorized party used a compromised npm publish token to publish an update to Cline CLI

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ClickFix campaign that abuses compromised legitimate sites to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called MIMICRAT (aka AstarionRAT). "The campaign demonstrates a high level of operational sophistication: compromised sites spanning multiple industries and geographies serve as delivery infrastructure, a multi-stage

Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.

If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention?- by Dane Leigh GogoshinRead on Aeon

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With one in three cyber-attacks now involving compromised employee accounts, insurers and regulators are placing far greater emphasis on identity posture when assessing cyber risk. For many organizations, however, these assessments remain largely opaque. Elements such as password hygiene, privileged access management, and the extent of multi-factor authentication (MFA) coverage are

The Olympics often provide a moment of unity and celebration during times of geopolitical uncertainty. But blind nationalism didn’t win at the 2026 Winter Games.

A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North Korea's fraudulent information technology (IT) worker scheme. In November 2025, Oleksandr "Alexander" Didenko pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft for stealing the identities of U.S. citizens and selling them to IT workers to help them land

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of an increase in ATM jackpotting incidents across the country, leading to losses of more than $20 million in 2025. The agency said 1,900 ATM jackpotting incidents have been reported since 2020, out of which 700 took place last year. In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said about $40.73 million has been collectively

Two former Google engineers and one of their husbands have been indicted in the U.S. for allegedly committing trade secret theft from the search giant and other tech firms and transferring the information to unauthorized locations, including Iran. Samaneh Ghandali, 41, and her husband Mohammadjavad Khosravi (aka Mohammad Khosravi), 40, along with her sister Soroor Ghandali, 32, have been accused

Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried to cultivate allies.

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death.

Fallout, Neighbors, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters are just a few of the TV shows we’re swooning over for February.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the first Android malware that abuses Gemini, Google's generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, as part of its execution flow and achieves persistence. The malware has been codenamed PromptSpy by ESET. The malware is equipped to capture lockscreen data, block uninstallation efforts, gather device information, take screenshots,

An international cybercrime operation against online scams has led to 651 arrests and recovered more than $4.3 million as part of an effort led by law enforcement agencies from 16 African countries. The initiative, codenamed Operation Red Card 2.0, took place between December 8, 2025 and January 30, 2026, according to INTERPOL. It targeted infrastructure and actors behind high-yield investment

Microsoft has disclosed a now-patched security flaw in Windows Admin Center that could allow an attacker to escalate their privileges. Windows Admin Center is a locally deployed, browser-based management tool set that lets users manage their Windows Clients, Servers, and Clusters without the need for connecting to the cloud. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-26119, carries a

The cyber threat space doesn’t pause, and this week makes that clear. New risks, new tactics, and new security gaps are showing up across platforms, tools, and industries — often all at the same time. Some developments are headline-level. Others sit in the background but carry long-term impact. Together, they shape how defenders need to think about exposure, response, and preparedness right now

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We’ve all seen this before: a developer deploys a new cloud workload and grants overly broad permissions just to keep the sprint moving. An engineer generates a "temporary" API key for testing and forgets to revoke it. In the past, these were minor operational risks, debts you’d eventually pay down during a slower cycle. In 2026, “Eventually” is Now But today, within minutes, AI-powered

Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.

Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time- by Carlo IaconoRead on Aeon

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android trojan called Massiv that's designed to facilitate device takeover (DTO) attacks for financial theft. The malware, according to ThreatFabric, masquerades as seemingly harmless IPTV apps to deceive victims, indicating that the activity is primarily singling out users looking for the online TV applications. "This new threat, while

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed CRESCENTHARVEST, likely targeting supporters of Iran's ongoing protests to conduct information theft and long-term espionage. The Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) said it observed the activity after January 9, with the attacks designed to deliver a malicious payload that serves as a remote access trojan (RAT) and

Forty years ago in Japan, two babies were born for every person who died. Twenty years ago, these numbers were equal. And today, the ratio has reversed: one baby is born for every two people who die.In the chart, you can see this change in the number of births and deaths over time.Since deaths now greatly outnumber births, and because immigration is low, Japan’s population has started to shrink.See which other countries now have more people dying than being born.

New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercial forensic extraction tool manufactured by Israeli company Cellebrite to break into a prominent dissident's phone, making it the latest case of abuse of the technology targeting civil society. The interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Grandstream GXP1600 series of VoIP phones that could allow an attacker to seize control of susceptible devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2329, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow that could result in remote code

A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.

a union thug and his cabal of communist academics have awoken a sleeping giant: behold, your first look at the billionaire counterattack in the war for california’s future

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to steal local files and execute code remotely. The extensions, which have been collectively installed more than 125 million times, are Live Server, Code Runner, Markdown Preview Enhanced, and

Benoît Richaud is working with 16 figure skaters from 13 countries at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. WIRED spoke to him about how he roots for all of them.

In 2025, navigating the digital seas still felt like a matter of direction. Organizations charted routes, watched the horizon, and adjusted course to reach safe harbors of resilience, trust, and compliance. In 2026, the seas are no longer calm between storms. Cybersecurity now unfolds in a state of continuous atmospheric instability: AI-driven threats that adapt in real time, expanding

Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

A maximum severity security vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has been exploited as a zero-day by a suspected China-nexus threat cluster dubbed UNC6201 since mid-2024, according to a new report from Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The activity involves the exploitation of CVE-2026-22769 (CVSS score: 10.0), a case of hard-coded credentials

Security, IT, and engineering teams today are under relentless pressure to accelerate outcomes, cut operational drag, and unlock the full potential of AI and automation. But simply investing in tools isn’t enough. 88% of AI proofs-of-concept never make it to production, even though 70% of workers cite freeing time for high-value work as the primary AI automation motivation. Real impact comes

Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the software update mechanism to selectively deliver malware to targets of interest. The version 8.9.2 update incorporates what maintainer Don Ho calls a "double lock" design that aims to make the update process "robust and effectively unexploitable." This includes verification

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-2441 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome that could allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap

while janitors earn up to $271k hiding in closets and employees fraudulently double their salaries, bart is threatening to close stations unless taxpayers give them (even more) money

After Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson accused Canadian vice-skip Marc Kennedy of cheating last week, everyone has become an expert in curling rules. They’re missing the point.

Cloud attacks move fast — faster than most incident response teams. In data centers, investigations had time. Teams could collect disk images, review logs, and build timelines over days. In the cloud, infrastructure is short-lived. A compromised instance can disappear in minutes. Identities rotate. Logs expire. Evidence can vanish before analysis even begins. Cloud forensics is fundamentally

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that artificial intelligence (AI) assistants that support web browsing or URL fetching capabilities can be turned into stealthy command-and-control (C2) relays, a technique that could allow attackers to blend into legitimate enterprise communications and evade detection. The attack method, which has been demonstrated against Microsoft Copilot and xAI Grok

A new Android backdoor that's embedded deep into the device firmware can silently harvest data and remotely control its behavior, according to new findings from Kaspersky. The Russian cybersecurity vendor said it discovered the backdoor, dubbed Keenadu, in the firmware of devices associated with various brands, including Alldocube, with the compromise occurring during the firmware build phase.

As patients and employers look for alternatives to pricey GLP-1 drugs, Silicon Valley startup Twin Health is using AI and wearable sensors to help people make healthier choices.

The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures the true vulnerability of our existence- by Carlos Alberto SánchezRead on Aeon

Debates over whether religion is booming or dying are common. What does the data say?Most countries lack long-term data on religious identity, but results from the Pew Research Center offer insights into changes over the decade from 2010 to 2020. (Unfortunately, 2020 is the most recent year for which we have comparable global data.)At a global level, there was barely any change. The share of people identifying with any religion dropped by just one percentage point, from 77% to 76%.But religious affiliation did drop significantly across many countries in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. You can see this drop for a selection of countries in the chart.In Australia, rates dropped from 75% to 58%. In the United States and Chile, the percentage has decreased from roughly 85% to 70%.So while religious affiliation is stable in many parts of the world, this data shows religion is becoming less prominent in others.Note that this data is based on self-identification with any religion; it doesn’t tell us about changes in practices or rituals, such as prayer or attending services.Explore more data on religious identification, importance, and the frequency of practices across the world in our new topic page on religion.

In light of Zoom crackdowns and Skype shutting down, Batemates has emerged as an alternative for “bators” who like masturbating together online.

Fears over a drug cartel drone over Texas sparked a recent airspace shutdown in El Paso and New Mexico, highlighting just how tricky it can be to deploy anti-drone weapons near cities.

How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth- by Graham ShieldsRead on Aeon

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Our new Hong Kong office. It’s starting to shape up what tiny corp’s product will be. It’s not much of a change from what we sell and do now, but the vision is clearer. Every month, we see these LLMs become more and more human. However, there’s a major difference. They do not learn. Everyone has the same Claude/Codex/Kimi, with the same weights, the same desires, and the same biases. If current trends continue, the collapse in diversity will be staggering. To paraphrase: I think there is a world market for maybe five people. This is not the future I want to live in. If trends continue where there’s a single model with frozen weights and all learning is in-context, the cloud will win. Except in some highly latency sensitive (fighting robots) or connectivity critical (self driving cars) environments, it will be cheaper to run in batch on the cloud. The enshittification that came to the web won’t be the driving force to local models. We either live in a world where open models are so bad even user-hostile closed models are better, or open models are good enough, and competition to run them through sites like openrouter will prevent enshittification. The only way local models win is if there’s some value in full on learning per user or organization. At that point, with entirely different compute needing to run per user, local will beat out cloud. The open question is if everything that’s unique about you can fit in a 10 kB CLAUDE.md. If that’s true, we have a pretty sad future ahead. It’s the Attack of the Clones, swarms of identical minds you have no say over all varying in a small boxed-in way. This isn’t learning, it’s costuming. Everyone who has used these things knows how little of an impact prompting makes compared to the model. It’s the Internet funneled into a little box you can edit on your profile. Write 3 paragraphs about what makes you unique. We have to build for a future where that isn’t true. 90% of people will choose the cloud, and what they will find is that they are no longer meaningfully in the loop. The dream is an AI product that will do your job for you while you continue to get paid. But this cannot exist, that’s way too much of a fee to pay to the middleman. If you choose the homogenous mind, you are superfluous and will be cut out. Is there anything uniquely valuable about you? And I mean honestly, not the self-esteem pumping speeches you may have heard in school. If there’s not, I have some bad news for you… We already sell the hardware. Consumer GPUs still are the cheapest way to run models. There’s tons of work required on the infrastructure. The frontend will be the future iterations of OpenClaw and opencode. But the key distinction from what you have today is that your tinybox will learn. It will update the weights based on its interactions with you. Like living things. This is many years away. Currently, we are focused on large LLM training (even running these things is hard, have you tried to use vLLM not on NVIDIA?) and generic infrastructure for driving GPUs. But this is the long term idea. Not API keyed SaaS clones. Something that lives in your house and learns your values. Your child.

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Plus: Meta plans to add face recognition to its smart glasses, Jared Kushner named as part of whistleblower’s mysterious national security complaint, and more.

The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium.

This chart shows one way to compare automated manufacturing across countries — it plots the number of robots per 1,000 manufacturing employees.The chart shows very large differences between countries. South Korea stands out, with more than one robot for every ten manufacturing workers.Singapore comes second, and China ranks third, close to Germany. The United States sits in the middle, close to the European average, below Switzerland, Denmark and Slovenia.This perspective shows industrial robot adoption in relative terms. In another Data Insight, I looked at robot adoption in absolute terms. From that perspective, China stands out by a large margin: it’s a large economy with a huge manufacturing sector, and it has by far the largest stock of industrial robots.Much of this expansion has happened recently: China’s annual installations increased 12-fold over a decade, helping it catch up to South Korea in terms of robots per worker.Explore the interactive version of this chart

Snowpack levels across a wide swath of western US states are among the lowest seen in decades, even as regulators struggle to negotiate water rights in the region.

The breakout hockey romance has sparked legions of enthralled fans, along with obsessive, parasocial behavior that’s starting to get called out.

the union who sponsored the proposal is trying to scale. the academics who wrote and influenced it are trying to counter billionaires' control over 'prevailing ideology'

Nearly 50 out LGBTQ+ Olympians are participating in events throughout the Winter Games—even as their rights to speak and compete are under attack.

On Friday, the US Olympic skater known as the “Quad God” will compete in his last event of the 2026 Winter Games. Everyone will be watching to see if he does his famous quad axel—and a backflip, too.

EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help making AI-human relationships a “new normal.”

Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work?- by Julien Lie-PanisRead on Aeon

the real chokepoint in the ai race is power, and elon is betting he can generate power in space faster than our glacial bureaucracy will allow down here on earth

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

In their visions of the underworld Dante and Milton were truly subversive, incorporating predecessors into their own repudiation- by Charlie EricsonRead on Aeon

As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.

Most people in the world are religious. When asked whether they identify with any religion, three-quarters of respondents choose one.But in the chart, you can see huge differences in rates of religious affiliation across the world. In some countries, such as India and Pakistan, it’s almost universal: almost everyone identifies with a religion.The opposite is true in China, where just one in ten people does. Several countries in East Asia, in particular, have particularly low rates of religious identification compared to other regions.This doesn’t necessarily mean these populations hold no religious beliefs; they may still engage in activities that can be considered religious or spiritual, even though they don't describe themselves as belonging to any one in particular.We show here just a small selection of countries; you can explore data for many more in our new topic page on religion.

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.

Obsession over a show about two closeted hockey players has brought new fandom to the sport just ahead of the Olympics. But men's hockey's lack of support for LGBTQ+ players and fans is notable.

Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.

US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

A jaunty song calls for greater appreciation of Indian wool, as imports undermine the livelihoods of local herders- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full rotations in the air.

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

Bidets are extremely common in northern Italy, where the Milano Cortina Games are being played. They’re less familiar to the people visiting.

The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms- by Yogi Hale HendlinRead on Aeon

It might seem odd that countries would agree to import plastic waste from other countries, but many do so for the cheap materials or to feed specific manufacturing processes.Environmentally, the trade in plastics has often been a concern, as it allows rich countries to effectively “dump” waste on poorer countries with weaker waste management systems.The good news is that trade in plastic waste has fallen by more than two-thirds over the last decade. You can see this reduction in the chart.China has been the biggest driver of this. It was once a large importer, but after a steep decline in trade in 2016 and a ban in 2018, many countries lost their largest export market.In 2024, around 5 million tonnes of plastic waste were traded worldwide. For context, that is around 1% of the total plastic waste generated. What’s perhaps surprising is that most trade is now between high-income countries, which reduces the risk that this waste leaks into the environment.Learn more in our updated topic page on plastic pollution.

The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much.

Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

If throwing stones and sweeping ice seem strange to you, the centuries-old history of the sport explains why it became so beloved.

After more than 15 years of draconian measures, culminating in an ongoing internet shutdown, the Iranian regime seems to be staggering toward its digital surveillance endgame.

Sea pandas or sadistic killers? These enigmatic creatures invite contradictory labels that say far more about us than them- by Jason ColbyRead on Aeon

General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era of space travel. That's a big “if.”

We met up with attendees of Super Bowl LX’s pregame festivities to get their takes on the competing halftime shows, the potential for ICE actions, and the influence of Silicon Valley on the event.

“The All-American Halftime Show,” born out of outrage over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, fell short of the hype. From Kid Rock’s poor lip synching to Erika Kirk being MIA, it was simply dull.

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.

Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.

Industrial robots are rapidly becoming a common part of manufacturing in some countries. The chart here shows how many new ones are installed each year in the industrialized countries for which we have available data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).In this dataset, industrial robots are defined as automatically controlled, reprogrammable, and multipurpose machines used in industrial settings. The data covers only physical industrial robots, not software or consumer technologies.The chart shows that in 2011, China, the United States, Japan, Germany, and South Korea were all installing similar numbers of these robots. However, in the decade that followed, the paths of these countries diverged. By 2023, annual installations in China had risen to 276,000 robots, a twelvefold increase.Over the same period, installations in the United States, Japan, Germany, and South Korea also increased, but much more slowly: none of them even doubled. The United States, which saw the second-largest rise, went from 21,000 new installations in 2011 to 38,000 in 2023.These figures refer to new robots installed each year; that is, annual additions to the existing stock of robots. The IFR also publishes data on the total number of robots in operation, and by this measure, China also had the largest installed base, at around 1.76 million robots in 2023.Relative to its large manufacturing sector, China’s stock of robots today does not stand out – but the data here shows that this is changing quickly.Explore the interactive version of this chart.

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.

An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition- by Jonathan R GoodmanRead on Aeon

Rising far above the desert, the walls of these magnificent hills carry the ancient story of humanity’s creative spark- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Most of our work on war and peace focuses on the people killed directly in the fighting. But war has many other costs: it worsens people’s health, leaves them without work, and pushes them out of their homes.The chart shows this for the civil war in Syria. Since the war began in 2011, more than 400,000 people have been killed in the fighting. At the same time, annual deaths increased as more people died from other causes. Young children were especially affected: estimates suggest that the number of annual child deaths more than doubled.The war has also forced millions of people to leave their homes: in total, more than seven million are displaced within Syria, and almost as many are refugees elsewhere.It also became much harder for people to make a living. Average living standards, measured by GDP per capita, have more than halved since the war began. As a result, poverty and hunger have risen sharply.These numbers come with uncertainty because conflict makes it hard and dangerous to collect data.This shows that to understand the costs of war, we need to have a broad perspective and see its impacts on health, displacement, and living standards.Millions have died in conflicts since the Cold War; learn more about where and how.

A growing legion of “zero trimester” influencers are convincing followers that healthy pregnancies are a choice—and that raw milk, watching sunsets, and pricey specialized courses can help.

Headquarters: This is a remote role URL: http://rapidstrategy.io Rapid Strategy is seeking a Mid to Senior Level Penetration Test Consultants for both web apps and network. Rapid Strategy is an award-winning and African-American owned small business providing cybersecurity services to the private and public sector. Based in Charlotte, NC, we support our clients across the North Carolina and DMV area. You can learn more about Rapid Strategy at www.RapidStrategy.io The primary objective of the Penetration Tester is to simulate cyber attacks on web applications to identify security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by malicious actors. This role involves a combination of analytical skills, technical expertise, and creativity to simulate real-world hacking scenarios. Key Responsibilities: Conducting thorough penetration tests on web applications to identify vulnerabilities.Utilizing various penetration testing tools and methodologies to simulate cyber attacks.Analyzing web applications for weaknesses and vulnerabilities using manual and automated methods.Understanding and exploiting known web vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), and others.Preparing detailed reports on findings and providing recommendations for security improvements.Collaborating with development teams to advise on security best practices.Keeping abreast of the latest cybersecurity threats and testing methodologies. Required Skills and Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field, OR equivalent experience also accepted.5-8 years of experienceIndustry certifications such as Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), or GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT).Strong understanding of web application technologies and protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, HTML, JavaScript, etc.).Proficiency tools like Tennable, Burp Suite, NMap, OWASP ZAP, Metasploit, SQLMap, etc.Experience with known exploits and their mitigation.Ability to analyze and report on penetration testing outcomes effectively.Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.Strong communication skills for collaboration with cross-functional teams. Desirable Skills: Experience with programming/scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Ruby.Expert knowledge of network security and operating systems.Familiarity with cloud environments and container technologies This role will be primarily remote but may require travel. Please note that this position requires applicants to be U.S. citizens and based in the United States. Only individuals who meet these criteria will be considered for employment. View all jobs at this company To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/rapid-strategy-senior-penetration-tester-webapp-and-network

WIRED attended two documentary screening parties—one on each coast—for the First Lady’s film. What a time.

Three-quarters of people worldwide say they are religious. But rates of religious identity can vary a lot across countries, and so do the particular religions people follow.In the map, you can see the most common religious affiliation for each country. This can include the “unaffiliated” who do not identify with any specific religion. This data is sourced from the Pew Research Center and is based on how people describe their own identity, regardless of their particular practices or beliefs.As you can see, Christianity is the most common across much of Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Islam is the most common across North Africa and the Middle East, while Hinduism and Buddhism dominate across much of South Asia.In East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea, the religiously unaffiliated are the biggest group. That doesn’t mean these populations hold no religious beliefs; they may still engage in activities that can be considered religious or spiritual, but they don’t describe themselves as belonging to any one in particular.Explore the full breakdown of religious affiliations within each country, beyond just the most common answer.

Headquarters: Dunedin, New Zealand URL: http://walkersmith.co.nz JOB DESCRIPTION Position Title Senior Web Developer Name Reports To Web Development Lead Department ICT Trends Overview VISION: TRENDS. The Best Promotional supplier in Australasia. Recognised and admired industry wide as the benchmark in innovation, product reliability and print quality, delivery speed and outstanding customer service. MISSION: As the industry leader, TRENDS will provide our customers with easy, efficient access to a select range of innovative products, superior printing, world class customer service, and the business and technology services necessary to increase their sales and profits. Job Purpose & Function Under the guidance of the Web Development Lead, the Senior Web Developer is responsible for the planning and development of web and other technology projects required to support the development of a new business division. This will require contributing to and being involved in the planning and direction of the division, building websites and other business tools according to agreed specifications, prioritising development projects according to the needs of the business, and overseeing suppliers, platforms and technologies required for hosting of company websites. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE KEY RELATIONSHIPS The role will require close working relationships with the following stakeholders: Major Internal Contacts Within Trends Major External Contacts Chief Information OfficerWeb Development LeadICT DepartmentMarketing DepartmentAll other Departments when requiredThird Party solution suppliers, providers, consultants, and subject matter experts as and when required. KEY RESULT AREAS The position of Senior Web Developer encompasses the following key result areas: KRAs Key Accountabilities Performance Measures Quality/Accuracy of Work Ensure that all web development and associated projects are fully functional and built in accordance with agreed specifications. Identify areas for continuous improvement, create project plans and coordinate appropriate solutions. Ensure the smooth integration of web development projects that deliver to the needs of the business long-term. Quality of Work Work Output/Time Management Prioritise development projects according to the needs of the business and assign tasks to team members.Ensure all web development projects are completed within allocated timeframes.Maintain and manage your workload at an acceptable output. Work Output Attitude & Culture Display a positive and professional attitude toward work, colleagues, and ongoing learning.Promote a culture of continuous improvement and proactive problem-solving within the team.Take ownership and accountability for assigned tasks and responsibilities.Show commitment to achieving both personal and team goals.Contribute positively to team dynamics by being cooperative, solution-focused, and dependable under pressure. Acts Above the Line Interpersonal Relationships Foster positive and professional working relationships with both internal colleagues and external stakeholders.Assist and support team members and leaders by sharing knowledge of relevant processes, policies, and tasks.Handle inquiries and requests in a professional, accurate, and solution-focused manner.Work collaboratively with supervisors, team leads, and peers to ensure alignment on goals and expectations.Show respect for leadership and team structures by following established protocols and directions. Acts as a Cooperative Team Member Communication Maintain open and transparent communication with management, team leaders, and colleagues to support smooth workflow and decision-making.Clearly convey operational, administrative, or task-related requirements across teams and departments.· Express ideas, updates, and concerns concisely and professionally in both group settings and one-on-one interactions. Demonstrates Appropriate and Open Communication Health & Safety Ensure that all company established and Worksafe NZ requirements, policies and practices are complied with.Immediately report all accidents, incidents, near misses and hazards.Keep work areas clean and tidyEnsure all PPE is worn as required by the company. Compliance with H&S Expectations Technical Skills Build websites and other business tools according to agreed upon specifications. Ensure the efficient and functional development, testing, and maintenance of all web development projects and other ecommerce projects.Contribute to and be involved in the planning and direction of the E-commerce division. Oversee suppliers, platforms and technologies required for hosting of company websites.Research the best technologies and platforms required to build solutions.Assist with planning and scoping requirements for web applications and their supporting systems.Ensure robust testing of all projects to identify any bugs or fixes required. Demonstrated Competency and Understanding PERSON SPECIFICATION Education / Qualifications Recognised Qualification in a related field such as Computer Science, Web Development & Design, or ICT, and/or at least 4-years experience in the below areas. Experience Full Stack Development – Significant experience with most of the following technologies: Strong focus and skillset around the Laravel suite and framework, React, TypeScript, InertiaJS, TailwindCSS/UI, Serverless, OOP, MVC, Creating effective test suites, Browser Testing, Performance Monitoring, Load Testing, Effective caching strategies, Database and query optimisation, Modular Monilinth design, custom composer and NPM package development, strong focus on security considerations, continuing growth on AI technologies and patterns, Multi Tenancy and multi environment application development and management, proven track record of integrations with disparate systems across a range of protocols, strong understandingly of the underlying technologies powering the web, Networking experience.E-commerce – experience developing complex E-commerce solutions and working with E-commerce platforms and channels. Web Development/ Web Project Management - Experience planning and scoping requirements for web applications and supporting systems and effectively managing web development projects from beginning to end in alignment with business requirements. Troubleshooting – Considerable experience ensuring robust testing of all projects to identify any bugs or fixes as required. Key competencies/ Skills Time Management Skills – able to complete and self-direct own work to ensure timely completion of project deliverables. Programming Skills (Front & Back-End)– Significant experience with most of the following technologies: Strong focus and skillset around the Laravel suite and framework, React, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Serverless, OOP, MVC, Creating effective test suites, Browser Testing, Performance Monitoring, Load Testing, Effective caching strategies, Database and query optimisation, Modular design, custom composer and NPM package development, strong focus on security considerations, continuing growth on AI technologies and patterns, Multi Tenancy and multi environment application development and management, proven track record of integrations with disparate systems.Web Development – Ability to build web applications, services, integrations and APIs in accordance with specificationsTroubleshooting Skills – high level of competency and skills developed in troubleshooting and identifying bugs and fixes Project Management Skills – full range of project management skills inclusive of time-management, costing control and critical thinking. Analytical Skills – high level of attention to detail and methodical approach to ensure a functional solution is developed. Interpersonal Skills – ability to engage and communicate with a variety of managers, team leaders, and team members to ensure a solution is developed that is functional to the needs of both consumers and business areas involved in its operation. Communication Skills – ability to articulate complex information in a clear manner. VALUES DAY-TO-DAY BEHAVIOURS Ensure that you treat all work colleagues and management with respect. Discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. Exercise accurate time keeping. Ensure all property is treated with respect and used appropriately. Display a positive attitude Keep work areas clean and tidy Plan the days work as efficiently as possible. Exercise effective teamwork by helping others whenever possible AMENDMENTS TO THE JOB DESCRIPTION From time to time it may be necessary to consider changes in the job description in response to the changing nature of our work environment – including technological requirements or statutory changes. This Job Description may be reviewed as part of the preparation for performance planning for the annual performance cycle or as required. NON-LIMITATION CLAUSE This Job Description is not intended to be a complete or limiting description of the functions that the employee may reasonably be requested to undertake. ACCEPTANCE I have read and understood the above position description and accept all the responsibilities incorporated herein. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/walker-smith-senior-web-developer-remote

Headquarters: CA Remote (BC & ON only); U.S. Remote URL: http://webflow.com At Webflow, we’re building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, and we’re doing it as a remote-first company built on trust, transparency, and a whole lot of creativity. This work takes grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality. Our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. From entrepreneurs launching their first idea to global enterprises scaling their digital presence, we empower teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers. We believe the future of the web, and work, is more open, more creative, and more equitable. And we’re here to build it together. We’re looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to help us develop and implement strategies to grow Webflow’s presence upmarket and build meaningful relationships with both potential and existing customers. About the role: Location: Remote-first (United States; BC, Canada). **Must reside in Pacific or Mountain Time Zone. This role will require an in-person onboarding session in San Francisco, CA Full-time Permanent Exempt Our cash compensation amount for this role ranges depending on the cost of labor of the geographic area. The ranges shared below may change if you are hired in another geographic location. United States (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States) Zone A: $250,000 - $280,000 Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON, Canada) 302,000 - 338,000 For sales roles, the ranges provided are the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) ranges, meaning that the ranges include both the sales commissions target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Webflow and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s market location, job related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter. Application Information: Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled This posting is for a new position Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Enterprise Sales As an Enterprise Account Executive, you’ll … Meet with potential Enterprise customers, deeply understand their problems, and assess whether or not Webflow is a good fit Build a sales pipeline and drive the full sales cycle from identifying new prospects to close Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders within prospect and customer accounts Negotiate annual or multi-year software contracts Position and communicate Webflow’s vision, solution, and value propositions Work cross-functionally with marketing, product, design, education and engineering to execute sales strategy Collaborate with Customer Success to build high-quality onboarding and customer experiences Travel up to 25-50% - onboarding, customer meetings, industry events, and internal offsites About you: Requirements: BA/BS degree or equivalent experience You’ll thrive as an Enterprise Account Executive if you: Bring 5-7 years quota carrying experience with 3-4+ years in a complex SaaS sales cycles at larger companies involving multiple stakeholders. Demonstrate a strong ability to prospect and hunt new logos autonomously. Show a proven track record of closing complex sales cycles with a disruptive B2B SaaS product Collaborate effectively across teams like Product, Engineering, Support, and Marketing to drive business impact. Love testing, tracking, and iterating on your sales process. Thrive in ambiguous environments and work independently. Show passion for the no-code space and interest in web design, development, or Webflow products. Embody a growth mindset and a drive for continuous improvement. Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact. Our Core Behaviors: Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first. Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act. Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible. Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar. Benefits Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company. Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums. Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions. Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired. Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching. Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally. Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts. Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program. Temporary employees may be eligible for paid holiday and time off, statutory leaves of absence, and company-sponsored medical benefits depending on their Fixed Term Contract and their country/state of employment. Remote, together At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer and are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Webflow will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Stay connected Not ready to apply, but want to be part of the Webflow community? Consider following our story on our Webflow Blog, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and/or Glassdoor. Please note: We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Upon interview scheduling, instructions for confidential accommodation requests will be administered. To join Webflow, you'll need a valid right to work authorization depending on the country of employment. If you are extended an offer, that offer may be contingent upon your successful completion of a background check, which will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws. We may obtain one or more background screening reports about you, solely for employment purposes. For information about how Webflow processes your personal information, please review Webflow’s Applicant Privacy Notice. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/webflow-enterprise-account-executive-west

Headquarters: Novi, MI 48304 URL: http://nutechs.com Benefits: Dental insurance Health insurance Paid time off FPGA Development Engineer Responsibilities As a member of the embedded development group you will be part of a dynamic development team performing analysis, design and development of our next generation embedded products. Initially this will be on site until training is completed. Then it will transition to a Hybrid. Responsibilities will include: Both new development and maintenance/enhancement to existing embedded designs Detailed technical design of system architecture and FPGA components based on requirements Development and execution of unit test procedures Development and execution of system test procedures Development and updating of documentation on work performed Qualifications The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and skills: Desired Skills/Experience Experience with using VHDL in the development of embedded products Experience using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes in the development of embedded products Experience with System on a Chip design Experience with Electrical Schematic Design Able to understand and intelligently debug existing systems Solid understanding of Object-Oriented methodologies and concepts in general Solid understanding of general programming software technology Understanding and appreciation of software development lifecycles Knowledge of and understanding of software design patterns Bonus Skills/Experience Experience with Xilinx chips Familiarity C++ Familiarity with source control systems Familiarity with system interfaces such as CAN, JTAG, I2C, USB, and Ethernet Experience with SAE, ISO and ASAM standards Knowledge of data acquisition concepts and systems Knowledge of automobile and engine controls systems Essential Non-Technical Skills Positive proactive attitude and solid work ethic Strong communication skills Strong organizational skills Experience with Microsoft Office applications Detail-oriented and methodical coding mentality Willingness to follow processes and procedures Ability to work independently Join Our Team At NuTechs, we are always looking for talented IT Professionals to meet the needs of our employer partners. Whether you are looking for a short-term project or a long-term opportunity, we are here to help. If you specialize in the areas below, please submit your resume:Application Development, Software & Application Integration, Database Development & Administration, Network & Infrastructure Design, Systems Administration, Help Desk Services, ERP Implementation, Web Development Why Choose NuTechs? NuTechs is EMPLOYEE friendly!!! NuTechs is a diversified technical recruiting firm, and our passion is helping our clients build exceptional teams and assisting candidates with educated career moves. We take time to understand what is important to our clients and candidates as they develop their teams and careers. After all, a happy candidate leads to a happy client. Company Website: www.nutechs.com Work remote temporarily due to COVID-19. Compensation: $90,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/nutechs-fpga-development-engineer

Headquarters: India URL: http://eranindustrial.com Position: Senior Back-End Web Developer Location: Remote About Us: Eran Group is a leading design, engineering & manufacturing company dedicated to developing class-leading electrical goods for consumers and commercial uses. We are looking for a talented and experienced Front-End Web Developer to join our dynamic software team. Job Description: We are seeking a Senior Back-End Developer with a strong understanding of the latest web technologies and a keen eye for performance, business logic, and detail. The successful candidate will be responsible for server-side web application logic, database administration, security rules, and help integration to the front-end. You will work with front-end developers, software & data engineers, and business & marketing teams. Furthermore, you will be expected to have a strong passion for learning new technologies and pushing your skillset and experience to ever-growing levels. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain server-side logic.Define and maintain databases, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.Collaborate with front-end developers on the integration of elements.Work with business & marketing teams to understand & document requirements.Design and implement data storage solutions Manage SQL, NoSQL, and/or KV databases and ensure their performance. Develop cloud functions and help architect cloud-based solutions.Implement auth, security, and data protection measures.Integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.Troubleshoot and debug applications.Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders. Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.Proven experience as a Back-End Developer or similar role.Proficient with TypescriptFamiliarity with server-side language & runtimes such as Node.js/Deno/Bun (experience with other server-side languages Python, Go, and/or Rust acceptable well).Strong experience with cloud technologies, developing cloud functions, and helping orchestrate cloud services.Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/Typescript.Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and database administration (Postgres experience is a plus).Excellent understanding of the entire web back-end development processStrong understanding of designing & maintaining APIs using RPC/tRPC, REST, GraphQLExcellent verbal and written communication skills.Strong problem-solving skills and a detail-oriented mindset.Passion to learn and test new technology tools & services. How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume, portfolio, and a brief cover letter outlining their experience and why they are the perfect fit for this role. Please include links to your work or GitHub profile. ----------------- Eran Group is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Note: This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities, or working conditions associated with the position. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/eran-group-senior-back-end-web-developer

William Foege, who sadly died this week, is one of the reasons why this map ends in the 1970s.The physician and epidemiologist is best known for his pivotal role in the global strategy to eradicate smallpox, a horrific disease estimated to have killed 300 million people.Despite the world having an effective vaccine for more than a century, smallpox was still widespread across many parts of Africa and Asia in the mid-20th century.Foege played a crucial role in developing the “ring vaccination strategy”, which focused on vaccinating people around each identified case, rather than attempting a population-wide vaccination strategy, which was difficult in countries with limited resources.This strategy, combined with increased global funding efforts and support for local health programs, paved the way: country after country declared itself free of smallpox. You can see this drop-off through the decades in the map.The disease was declared globally eradicated in 1980.William Foege and his colleagues’ contributions are credited with saving millions, if not tens of millions of lives.Read more about the history of smallpox.

Headquarters: US IN Remote URL: http://servicetitan.com Ready to be a Titan?ServiceTitan is looking for an innovative Manager of Web Development who leads by example to join our Web Team. This hybrid player/coach role reports into the Director of Web Marketing and is designed for a leader who wants to stay technically grounded without being "in the weeds" 100% of the time.You will split your focus between hands-on technical contribution (working tickets, architectural design, code reviews) and formal people management (1:1s, career development, and team health for both Dev and QA) while leading the end-to-end development and optimization of our four flagship marketing websites: www.servicetitan.com, www.youraspire.com, www.convex.com, and www.fieldroutes.com.Our websites are critical to the user journey and serve as the engine for our overall pipeline generation program. We are seeking a strategic thinker who understands the unique nuances of high-performance marketing websites compared to SaaS products. If you are a proactive problem-solver who excels in a rapid-growth environment, this is the place for you.What You'll Do:Technical Contribution Strategic Coding: Rather than high-volume daily tasks, you will focus on high-impact tickets, complex bug fixes, or foundational architectural work.Code Quality & Reviews: Act as the final line of defense for code quality. You will perform critical PR reviews and ensure that QA and Dev are tightly integrated.Technical Unblocking: Identify technical debt or workflow bottlenecks that slow the team down and get hands-on to resolve them.Innovation & Support: Proactively identify and champion the adoption of new technologies (including AI integration) while providing ongoing support for existing features and security patches.Project Leadership: Operate as a Technical Lead, successfully launching and completing multiple large-scale technical projects simultaneously while impacting the immediate team's success.Vendor Management: Take the lead on working with third-party vendors for various integrations, ensuring seamless connectivity across our marketing stack. Technical Architecture: Lead the technical design and implementation of significant features that span multiple components, ensuring code quality, scalability, and adherence to best practices.Process Improvement: Develop and implement technical process improvements, such as advanced CI/CD strategies and new coding standards, to be adopted across the team.People & Team Leadership Lead and Manage: Serve as the direct people manager for our team of Web Developers and QA Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.Growth & Performance: Conduct regular 1:1s focused on both tactical output and long-term career progression. You will own performance reviews and compensation conversations.Team Dynamics: Actively manage interpersonal relationships and team culture. You are responsible for building a cohesive, high-trust environment across the Dev and QA disciplines.Resource Planning: Work with the Director of Web Marketing to balance team capacity with roadmap ambitions, ensuring the team is challenged but not burned out.What You’ll Bring:Balanced Perspective: You understand that "winning" means the team is shipping great software, not just that you personally finished a ticket.Technical Empathy: Because you still push code, you have a realistic pulse on the codebase, which informs how you manage deadlines and individual performance.Mentorship Mindset: You enjoy the challenge of coaching a QA engineer on automation strategy just as much as helping a developer optimize a database query.Management & Soft Skills: Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a proven ability to manage direct reports and influence cross-functional stakeholders.Problem Solving: Strong ability to troubleshoot complex, cross-service technical challenges and identify root causes rather than surface-level issues.Architecture Knowledge: Advanced understanding of system architecture, distributed systems, and performance optimization for highly available applications.Modern Stack Experience: High level of confidence with static site generators (Gatsby JS, Next JS), Node JS, and headless CMS platforms like Contentful.Technical Expertise: Deep proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, JavaScript) and frameworks like React JS and TailwindCSS.Standards & Compliance: Solid knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards, SEO best practices, and secure coding principles.Tools of the Trade: Proven experience with TDD, Gitflow, automated E2E testing, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).QA & Automation Experience: Familiarity with QA automation tools and processes strongly preferred.Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).Be Human With Us:Being human isn’t about checking every box on a list. It’s about the experiences we have, people we meet, and the perspectives we share. So, if you have the skills but are hesitant to apply because of your background, apply anyway. We need amazing people like you to help us challenge the conventional and think differently about the problems that we’re solving. We’re in this together. Come be human, with us. What We Offer:When you join our team, you’re not just accepting a job. You’re making a career move. Here’s how we’ll support you in doing some of the most impactful work of your career:Flextime, recognition, and support for autonomous work: Flexible time off with ample learning and development opportunities to continue growing your career. We offer a comprehensive onboarding program, leadership training for Titans at all levels, and other programs and events. Great work is rewarded through Bonusly, peer-nominated awards, and more.Holistic health and wellness benefits: Company-paid medical, dental, and vision (with 100% employer paid options and 90% coverage for dependents), FSA and HSA, 401k match, and telehealth options including memberships to One Medical.Support for Titans at all stages of life: Parental leave and support, up to $20k in fertility services (i.e. IUI and IVF), surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement, on demand maternity support through Maven Maternity, free breast milk shipping through Maven Milk, pet insurance, legal advisory services, financial planning tools, and more.At ServiceTitan, we celebrate individuality and uniqueness. We believe that the convergence of fresh perspectives and experiences from all walks of life is what makes our product and culture so great. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We do not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, age, disability, pregnancy (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), genetic information, protected military or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.ServiceTitan is committed to fair and equitable compensation for all of our employees. We thoughtfully consider a wide range of factors when determining individual compensation.The expected salary range for this role for candidates residing in the United States is between $151,100 USD - $202,100 USD. Compensation for candidates residing outside the United States will vary by location and the specific salary range will be discussed during the hiring process. Actual compensation for an individual may vary depending on skills, performance over time, qualifications, experience, and location. In addition to the base salary, the total compensation package also includes an annual bonus, equity and a holistic suite of benefits. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/servicetitan-manager-web-development

Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Belgrade, Serbia; Berlin, Germany; Limassol, Cyprus; Madrid, Spain; Munich, Germany; Paphos, Cyprus; Prague, Czech Republic; Remote, Germany; Warsaw, Poland; Yerevan, Armenia URL: http://jetbrains.com JetBrains makes industry-leading professional IDEs and team software. We are seeking a web developer advocate with deep knowledge in React. At JetBrains, our advocacy team’s mission is to make developers better. Candidates need to be self-starters: take initiative, plan tasks, coordinate across teams, and finish projects by themselves with light supervision. We need an advocate who can convincingly explain how our products can credibly enhance developer productivity in the web space and advise product teams based on industry trends and developer feedback. We are looking to hear from candidates who are experienced, passionate, empathetic, and ready to help with our roadmap. In this role, you'll: Grow relationships and our reputation in the industry within the global React community and on social networks. Attract attention to and explain various aspects of our product portfolio (through speaking, videos, blog posts, livestreams, sample code, etc.). Build and maintain relationships and a reputation in the industry with global and regional communities and on social networks. Provide feedback to the product teams. Meet with customers to listen to them and educate them about our offerings. Speak to the press on behalf of our products.. Contribute as needed to other areas at JetBrains. We’ll be happy to have you on our team if you have: Applied experience with software engineering best practices: testing, refactoring, version control, etc. Strong React experience as well as practical experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and related technologies. Fluency in both spoken and written English. Excellent communication skills, especially the ability to tell a compelling story about a technology. Self-organization, goal-setting, and time-management skills. Willingness to travel. We’d be especially thrilled if you have: Established reputation in the React developer community. Experience with JetBrains tools. Experience in developer advocacy. Proficiency in several programming languages (Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.). Background working in an environment with highly distributed, diverse teams. Portfolio of speaking engagements (conference recordings) and screencasts. Please submit it with your application. #LI-DNIWe process the data provided in your job application in accordance with the Recruitment Privacy Policy. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/jetbrains-jetbrains-web-developer-advocate-developer-advocacy

Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY URL: https://madeostudio.com/ Contract Web Developer About the Role We are inviting an experienced WordPress developer to join our team of 7 engineers. This is a remote contract role that may extend in time or with additional opportunities to join projects based on performance. Part-time and full-time availability will be considered. Please share more information with us about your experience and availability in the application. Minimum Qualifications Candidates need to meet the requirements below to be considered for the role: 3+ years of demonstrated experience in web development Showcase of WordPress-developed websites, proven experience building custom Gutenberg blocks Strong proficiency in PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, JavaScript (ES6+) Working knowledge of RESTful APIs, authentication, and integration patterns Experience with Git-based workflows and modern development tools Demonstrated experience working within a remote team Agency experience working on multiple client projects in parallel Strong written and verbal English communication skills Nice to Have Qualifications Experience with Drupal 9/10 development, site configuration, and backend integrations with third-party platforms Key tools and languages we currently use Back-End: PHP 8+, MySQL/MariaDB, GraphQL, RestAPI, GitHub, WordPress Gutenberg blocks, WordPress Custom Themes and Plugins Front-End: Gulp.js, SCSS, Next.js, Bootstrap 5+, JavaScript, ES6+, GitHub How to Apply We invite you to learn more about our culture, projects, and approach, and to spend time with our featured case studies on our website. Please apply if you believe you are qualified for and interested in working on similar projects. Click the button below to complete the application and be considered for this role. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/madeo-web-developer-contract

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

Headquarters: London, UK URL: https://slidespeak.co We're looking for a motivated Full Stack Software Engineer who wants to make a significant impact. As part of our small but growing team of 10, your work will directly influence the core product, enhancing our offering at a global scale. We're building out a one-of-a-kind AI-first presentation editor, so we hope you like working with 2D graphics. Key Responsibilities: Develop and optimize front-end UI with NextJS, React, and TypeScript Build and maintain backend services using Next, Python, FastAPI, and other frameworks Develop LLM and ML services to generate content for presentations (images, infographics, icons, content, ...) Collaborate on database management and query optimization Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment About you You are looking to grow rapidly in a insanely fast environment. You're eager to learn and contribute meaningfully to a product that's changing how millions of people create presentations. You move fast and can adapt quickly. We've entered a phase of growth where there is more work to do than there are people to do it - this means everyone on the team will be busy, but there are also countless opportunities to grow. You have a high quality bar for your work, even when moving quickly. As we scale our teams and customer base, the expectations of our software rises with it. We love engineers with a product sense that think of users and keep design and UX in mind. You're looking for teammates, not coworkers - folks you can learn from and grow with at SlideSpeak, and beyond. Skills and Qualifications Degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience Comfortable working with NextJS, React, TypeScript Some experience with Python or other backend frameworks and databases Some Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and server management via shell Practical work experience, at a minimum through internships or personal projects Nice-to-Have Experience with Python backends, FastAPI, and RAG frameworks like LangChain, Llama Index Knowledge of vector databases and advanced database management systems Knowledge of 2D graphics editors and SVG (yep, it gets quite nitty gritty) Previous experience in fast-paced startup environments Tech Stack Frontend: NextJS, Zustand, Tailwind, Prisma Backend: Python, FastAPI, Llama Index Database: PostgreSQL, PGVector LLMs & AI: Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini Flash, Replica DevOps: GitHub Actions, Checkly, Docker Compose, Azure, GCP, AWS Benefits Competitive salary: $50k-$60k based on experience Fully remote work environment with flexible scheduling Company-provided laptop and software budget tailored to your needs Budget for attending industry conferences (AI Engineer, Figma Config, WebSummit, etc.) Extraordinary quarterly fully-paid trips across Europe and globally, including accommodations and flights, to foster team bonding and creativity (our next trip is to Lisbon) WeWork membership Interview Process Initial Screening: 20-minutes, details on the role, questions to assess initial fit Skill Deep Dive: 45-minutes: In-depth assessment of your drivers, work ethic, and goals to determine mutual fit Technical Coding Challenge: Showcase your coding skills and problem-solving abilities with a case that we send before Cultural Fit with Founder/CEO (60 minutes) To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/slidespeak-ai-software-engineer

Several data sources show that theft in England and Wales has declined in recent decades.One of those is police records — but they only capture reported crimes, and many people don’t report thefts. So it’s also important to draw on a second data source. The data we show here comes from reports based on face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of the population. In these interviews, the public is asked about their personal experiences of crimes in the previous 12 months.On this chart, we’ve broken down the numbers by four different types of theft.You can see a dramatic drop in vehicle-related thefts. These peaked in 1995, with an estimated 4.3 million incidents in England and Wales. While some of these incidents involved the actual stealing of a vehicle, many were either attempted break-ins or the theft of specific components, such as radios.Burglaries — which involve someone breaking into a building to steal — also peaked in the mid-1990s.Both types of incidents have decreased by more than 80% since then.Pickpocketing or “snatching” has been more persistent. These crimes have decreased slightly from the 1990s and early 2000s, but have also experienced an increase in recent years.Explore long-term data on violent and property crimes in the United States in our article.

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Headquarters: Spain URL: https://mindrift.ai/ Please submit your CV in English and indicate your level of English proficiency. Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project‑based as an independent freelance contributor and does not create an employment relationship with Toloka or our clients. About the Role This project is suited for a Senior Python developer with deep functional testing experience, strong Linux and Docker skills, the ability to read code across multiple languages with the support of LLMs (e.g., C, Rust, Go) and translate requirements for migration tasks, and confidence using tools like Roo Code or Claude Code to accelerate iterative development. Key Responsibilities Create functional black box tests for large codebases in various source languages Create and manage Docker environments to ensure 100% reproducible builds and test execution across different platforms Monitor code coverage and configure automated scoring criteria to meet industry benchmark-level standards Leverage LLMs (Roo Code, Claude) to accelerate development cycles, automate repetitive tasks, and improve overall code quality Requirements 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer (primarily Python) Deep experience with pytest (fixtures, session-scoped, timeouts) and designing black-box functional tests for CLI tools Expert-level Docker skills (reproducible Dockerfiles, user contexts, secure workspaces) Strong Linux & Bash scripting skills and comfort debugging inside containers Proficiency with modern Python tooling (uv, pyproject.toml, packaging) Ability to read and understand with LLM many coding languages (for example C, C++, Rust, or Go) Experience using LLMs (Claude Code, Roo Code, Cursor) to accelerate iterative development and test-case generation English language - B2 or higher Requirements + Prior experience with agent evaluation platforms and MCP CLI Tools and Technologies: Python (pytest, uv, Pillow), Docker, Bash, Git Submodules, C/C++/Rust/Go (reading), Dagger, GitHub Codespaces, LLMs (Claude Code, Roo Code, Cursor), coverage.py, gcov, kcov. Benefits What we can offer Freelance project-based collaboration via the Mindrift platform (powered by Toloka AI) Fully remote and flexible participation — choose when and how much to contribute (20-30 hours per week) Task-based compensation, equivalent to up to $80/hour depending on performance and volume Opportunity to contribute to innovative AI projects for leading tech companies Supportive global community *Note: Rates vary based on expertise, skills assessment, location, project needs, and other factors. Higher rates may be offered to highly specialized experts. Lower rates may apply during onboarding or non-core project phases. Payment details are shared per project. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/mindrift-freelance-senior-python-developer-functional-test-frameworks

In 2000, less than 10% of the population in Indonesia had access to clean cooking fuels. This is now over 90%, as the chart shows.Clean cooking fuels are those that, when burned, emit less than the World Health Organization's recommended amounts of air pollutants. They reduce the burden of air pollution — and its health impacts — for the households that use them.In 2007, the Indonesian government launched a national program to move from kerosene cooking fuels to liquefied petroleum gas.This shift has greatly reduced particulate pollution and improved health outcomes. Death rates from indoor air pollution have fallen steeply.Explore how access to clean cooking fuels has changed throughout the world.

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Back in 1980, stomach cancer was the type of cancer that someone in Japan was most likely to die from. Its death rate — the number of deaths per 100,000 people — was over twice as high as the next largest killer, lung cancer.But this is no longer the case. Since then, death rates from stomach cancer have dropped by more than 70%. You can see this change, compared to other cancers, in the chart.While death rates of some other cancers have also fallen, these declines have been much smaller. Some types even saw an increase in death rates over these four decades.Improvements in prevention, detection, and treatment have all contributed to this huge decrease in stomach cancer death rates. Stomach cancer is often caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori; better hygiene and food safety have reduced its spread. Early screening for the infection has also made a big difference to survival rates.This progress is not unique to Japan. Many countries, and the world as a whole, have seen a huge reduction in stomach cancer mortality.Note that these death rates are age-standardized, which means they hold the age structure of the population constant. This allows us to understand how the risks of someone of a given age have changed over time.Stomach cancer death rates have fallen across many countries — explore our interactive chart.

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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the social and economic disruption that it left behind, suicide rates in Lithuania increased rapidly. They climbed in the early 1990s and reached a peak in 1995. At 45 suicide deaths per 100,000 people, the country had one of the highest rates in the world.But in the last few decades, rates have more than halved. You can see this in the chart.Several factors likely contributed to the decline. Economic conditions improved, with average incomes more than doubling over just a decade from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and continuing to rise thereafter. In 2007, the country launched its first National Mental Health Strategy. A decade ago, it also developed a Suicide Prevention Bureau and a Suicide Prevention Action Plan.This progress has saved many lives. Yet today it still has some of the highest rates in the world. That’s because suicide rates have not only fallen strongly in Lithuania, but in many countries — estimates for the global suicide rate suggest a 40% decline since 1995.Explore more data on how suicide rates have changed across the world on our dedicated topic page.

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Since the late 20th century, astronomers and space agencies have taken steps to monitor the threat of large asteroids passing near Earth. They set up international efforts to find these objects early, track their paths, and learn more about what they’re made of, so we’d have the best chance of spotting a real collision risk in time.As the chart shows, more than 40,000 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered and tracked since 1990. NASA estimates that we’ve already found over 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 1 kilometer. These are the most dangerous ones, because an impact at that size could cause global-scale damage.Explore more interactive charts on space exploration and satellites →

I’ve now been through three approaches to load testing for the site, and I think I’ve settled on a solution for the medium term at least. This post explains what I’m trying to achieve, along with the pros and cons of what I’ve tried. Requirements For this particular site, I have four requirements: If the … Continue reading Election 2029: Load Testing →

On January 15th 2026, Robert Jenrick broke my election site. Okay, that’s slightly hyperbolic. The site continued to operate, and it would be fairer to say that the actions of Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick exposed a flaw in the data modelling in my site. For those readers who don’t follow UK politics, two events … Continue reading Election 2029: Models and Reality →

If we look at income levels across countries in South and Southeast Asia, Malaysia is far richer than many of its neighbors. Its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita has almost doubled since 2000. It is now more than three times higher than that of Cambodia, Laos, and Bangladesh, and more than double that of Indonesia and Vietnam.But if we look at measures of childhood nutrition, Malaysia is not doing better. You can see this in the chart. While its neighbors have made progress on childhood stunting — the share of children under 5 who are too short for their age — Malaysia has regressed. In 2000, 20% of children were “stunted”, and this has increased to 24%.Malaysia also stands out at a global level. When we plot the share of children who are stunted against GDP per capita, the country is a clear outlier for its level of income. Most other countries at this level of economic development have rates below 10%.Malaysia also does relatively poorly on other measures of malnutrition. On childhood wasting — when a child’s weight is too low for their height — it has one of the highest rates in the region.The country is off track or worsening on most global nutrition targets.Read our explainer on stunting: how it’s measured, and why it matters.

In 2021, around 1.25 million people died from diarrheal diseases. Around a third of these deaths were children.Two main factors explain why so many children still die from diarrhea, especially in poor countries: the persistence of risk factors such as poor sanitation and unsafe water, and the lack of access to effective treatment.Here, I want to focus on the second factor: access to a particularly effective treatment, known as oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which is essentially a mixture of clean water, salts, and sugar. Simple as it may sound, researchers writing in the medical journal The Lancet called ORT “potentially the most important medical advance of the 20th century.”The chart shows how often this treatment is used in a selection of African countries. This is based on household surveys asking caregivers of children under five who recently had diarrhea whether they received ORT.There are large gaps: in Chad and Cameroon, fewer than one in five children with diarrhea received the treatment. This reflects a mix of challenges, including low awareness of its benefits and expensive or inconsistent supply.Importantly, though, the chart also shows that rates are much higher in Sierra Leone, where around 85% of children received ORT. This shows that much higher coverage is possible. Sierra Leone has implemented several successful policies, including free treatment for children.Not every child with diarrhea needs this treatment — some recover without it, depending on their health and circumstances. But ORT is cheap, safe, and easy to give. In low-income settings, especially, offering it widely as a cheap preventive measure can make a big difference for those who need it.Read more about oral rehydration therapy, a low-tech solution that has saved millions of lives.

For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API. I wasn’t planning to try other models today, but now that’s all I’m going to be doing. I’m sure they have a massive influx of users on Claude Code since Opus 4.5, I’ve been recommending it to everyone. But this level of user hostility raises the question, is this really a company you want to rely on in your workflow? First they came for opencode And I did not speak out Because I did not use opencode The first volley of this was an easy workaround, so whatever. But you can make this really hard, enforce a fixed system prompt, etc… You will not convert people back to Claude Code, you will convert people to other model providers. These actions make it clear that opencode is only the start. If you aren’t using Claude Code how they want you to, they will cut you off.

Over the past four decades, the global number of people dying from cancer each year has doubled. This can look like the world is losing its battle with cancer: people are more likely to develop it, and we’re getting no better at treating it. This isn’t true.There are, of course, almost 4 billion more people in the world than in 1980. And many of those people are older. This matters a lot because cancer rates rise steeply with age.The chart shows three different measures. Total deaths just count how many people died from cancer; this is the number that has doubled. Crude death rates, shown in yellow, adjust for population size; the increase shrinks from more than 100% to around 20%. Age-adjusted rates, shown in blue, also account for the fact that countries have older populations today; we can see that the fully age-adjusted rate has actually fallen by more than 20%.It means that for the average person, the likelihood of dying from cancer in any given year is now lower than it was for someone of a similar age in the past. The world still has a long way to go in preventing and treating cancer, but it’s wrong to think that no progress has been made.Explore more insights and see how trends are evolving for different types of cancers.

As I’ve written before, I’m leaning heavily into immutability in the election site code. Until September 2025 (it’s taken a long time to get round to writing this blog post) that meant a combination of records, ImmutableList<T> and ImmutableDictionary<TKey, TValue>. In an ECMA C# standards meeting, however, Joseph Musser passed on some really valuable feedback … Continue reading Changing Immutable Collections →

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In my previous blog post I described some behaviour of C# record types which was unexpected to me, though entirely correct according to the documentation. This is a follow-up post to that one, so if you haven’t read that one yet, please do so – I won’t go over all the same ground. Is this … Continue reading Records and the ‘with’ operator, redux →

Unexpected inconsistency in records The other day, I was trying to figure out a bug in my code, and it turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part as to how C# records work. It’s entirely possible that I’m the only one who expected them to work in the way that I did, but … Continue reading Unexpected inconsistency in records →

Postcodes After a pretty practical previous post about records and collections, this post is less likely to give anyone ideas about how they might tackle a problem in their own project, and doesn’t have any feature requests for Microsoft either. It’s an area I’ve found really fun though. An introduction to postcodes in the UK … Continue reading Election 2029: Postcodes →

Records and Collections This post is to some extent a grab-bag of points of friction I’ve encountered when using records and collections within the election site. Records recap This may end up being the most generally useful blog post in this series. Although records have been in C# since version 10, I haven’t used them … Continue reading Records and Collections →

Storage Since my last post about the data models, I’ve simplified things very slightly – basically the improvements that I thought about while writing the post have now been implemented. I won’t go into the details of the changes, as they’re not really important, but that’s just to explain why some examples might look like … Continue reading Election 2029: Storage →

Data models (and view-models) and how they’re used I was considering using the term “architecture” somewhere in the title of this post, but it feels too pompous for the scale of site. I could probably justify it, but it would give me the ick every time I used the term. But this post will basically … Continue reading Election 2029: Data Models →

Technical overview This post is mostly for scene-setting purposes. There’s nothing particularly remarkable here, but it’s useful to get the plain facts out of the way before we get into genuinely interesting design aspects. Just as a reminder, go to https://election2029.uk if you want to see what any of this looks like at the moment. … Continue reading Election 2029: Technical overview →

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AI is elbowing its way into ever more jobs, but while how we work will change, people skills will still be the most important factor.

Fragmented and focused social platforms might be good for helping you find a knitting community. But extremist groups are also using them to normalize darker content.

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