Families split, lives upended by California mudslides
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HOUSTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Oil prices rose almost $2 in choppy trading on Friday, as the three-week-old Iran war showed no signs of abating and the U.S. prepared to send thousands of additional troops to the Middle East in coming weeks. Brent futures for May rose $1.90, or 1.75%, to $110.55 a barrel as…
The first ever video and images of the Sun’s south pole have been sent back to Earth by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The new images will enable scientists to learn how the Sun cycles between periods of raging storms and quiet times. This is important because intense solar activity can affect satellite…
Called ‘first-of-its-kind manipulation of the Ethereum blockchain.’ May 15 (UPI) — The Justice Department on Wednesday revealed it indicted two brothers in their twenties for a series of alleged crimes for manipulating the cryptocurrency market to steal $25 million in crypto in a 12-second period, according to reports. Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of Boston, Mass., and…
AI has moved on from answering questions. It’s now slipping coded messages to its friends about glue-eating and human extinction. A study released July 20 on arXiv by Anthropic and Truthful AI shows that large language models can slip subliminal messages to one another. They don’t need to literally spell things out. A string of…
Canada’s federal government has said it will pull all its advertising from Facebook and Instagram. It follows parent company Meta’s move to restrict news content for Canadians after parliament passed a law that will force tech firms to pay media for news. Canadian officials said on Wednesday that they stand by the law and will…
Chickens at a plant in Texas’ panhandle have tested positive bird flu resulting in the slaughter of 1.6 million hens and 337,000 pullets (young hens). The largest supplier of eggs in the United States halted production after chickens at a Texas plant tested positive for the highly contagious bird flu – the latest in a…