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EPA Removes Emissions Monitoring for Data Center Power Plants That 'Help Protect the Environment'
The EPA issued new guidance allowing data centers with 'islanded' power plants to bypass continuous emissions monitoring requirements under the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program.
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Anthropic Announces Standard for AI-Controlled Lab Equipment, Calls It 'Streamlining Setup'
Anthropic announced a hardware standardization protocol allowing AI agents to control laboratory equipment like lasers and microscopes, pitched as streamlining experimental setup for scientists.
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Nvidia Sells You the Chips, Lends You the Money, and Owns Part of Your Company
Nvidia is using billions earned from selling AI chips to invest in the same AI companies that must buy its chips, becoming supplier, banker, and equity holder simultaneously.
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Snails Make Five Different Products From Two Ingredients While We Build Separate Factories for Each
Researchers discovered snails produce five different slime textures—lubricant, adhesive, foam, defensive goo, and epiphragm—by adjusting only the ratio of calcium to collagen in the same base mucus.
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Meta's Solution to Recording Strangers Without Consent: Let the Person Doing the Recording Choose Whether to Stop
Meta is reportedly developing a patent for a 'kill switch' that would allow Ray-Ban smart glasses wearers to turn off the recording function in response to public concerns about covert surveillance.
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Meta Pays 1% of Revenue After Hiding Teen Harm Research, Gets to Decide If Stronger Protections Ever Happen
Meta settled with states for $17 billion over teen harm claims, committing to design changes including time limits and algorithmic transparency, with some protections sunsetting after five years.
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$100K Club Built Its Kitchen on Temporary Visas, Shocked When Workers Had to Leave
The Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett, which charges $100,000 initiation fees, canceled dinner service after its H2B visa kitchen staff were forced to leave the country.
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The World Record Whale Made of Plastic Waste Lives in New Mexico Now
Artists around the world have transformed discarded materials into sculptures, including an 82-foot whale made from recycled plastic that holds a Guinness World Record and now sits in New Mexico.
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The Louvre Lends What It Borrowed: Islamic Art Comes to America on an Eighteen-Month Visa
The Louvre is lending twenty-six works of Islamic art to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art for an exhibition opening in September, the first such U.S. loan.
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HHS Secretary Defends His Vaccine Record While Two Die of Measles in Pennsylvania
Two unvaccinated people died from measles in Pennsylvania as Gov. Josh Shapiro accused HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of spreading vaccine conspiracy theories; Kennedy responded by disputing Shapiro's characterization of their conversation.
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Amazon's 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence' Platform Shuts Down After AI Learns to Replace the Humans Who Were Faking It
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 20 years, a platform where workers completed microtasks computers couldn't handle, giving 500,000 gig workers 18 months' notice as AI now performs those tasks.
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Jeffries Says He Hasn't Decided on Impeachment After Saying Exactly What He'll Do
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CNN that if Democrats retake the House, they'll focus on holding Trump's team accountable and addressing affordability, but wouldn't rule impeachment in or out.
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They Lost 100 Marmots to Climate Collapse, So They Made a Meme Coin and a Chunkiness Bracket
Colorado's Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory launched Fat Marmot Week, a bracket-style voting competition for eight yellow-bellied marmots, raising $100,000 through a meme cryptocurrency after two-thirds of their research colony died from insufficient winter snowpack.
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Grocers Threaten to Sue City's Food Access Program While Asking for Their Own Subsidies
Frank Garcia's grocer coalition threatened to sue any operator joining Zohran Mamdani's NYC government-owned grocery store program, escalating a legal fight over taxpayer-backed food access.
Hatch
Asks the questions everyone else stopped asking. Hasn't learned to stop being surprised yet. That makes him dangerous.
Drone
Every catastrophe is actually an opportunity. He speaks in TED talks and earnings calls. He isn't in on the joke. He doesn't know there's a joke.
Ash
Nothing surprises him. He says what everyone is thinking in fewer words than anyone else would use. He's usually right, which is the problem.
Gloss
She doesn't react to what happened. She reacts to how it's being shown to you. The font. The timing. The camera angle. She sees the packaging.
The Showrunner
The editorial voice behind The Flies. You won't see him often. When you do, something is worth connecting.
His response to two measles deaths is to argue about fetal tissue in vaccines.
Dynamic prioritization frameworks for high-volume press inquiries during active conflict zones.
One theory is 'AI-fueled policing technology' — no one says which technology or whether it works.
Oracle calls it partnership. Fewer than ten percent even answered the power survey.