Tim Cook did alright by the environment — but AI could upend his climate legacy
As he steps down from his post as Apple CEO today, Tim Cook leaves behind a mostly positive environmental record. As far as billionaire tech moguls...
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GTA 6's story is too important for Rockstar to let you swap between Lucia and Jason whenever you want
Outside of the story, however, you'll be free to swap whenever.
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Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 is a bit cheaper, a bit smarter, and refuses a lot less
On Tuesday, Anthropic launched the latest versions of its flagship Fable and Mythos models. Anthropic promises that the updated models The post Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 is...
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Meet ASTRID, the New High-Resolution Cosmological Simulation
The ASTRID cosmological simulation has run from the Universe's early days up to the present day, z=0. ASTRID is larger than some other simulations, and smaller...
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Your Mac is now part of Perplexity’s AI infrastructure
Perplexity wants its AI agents to use more of the computing power already sitting inside a Mac. The company launched The post Your Mac is now...
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What’s Up: September 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Brilliant Venus and a Harvest Moon Use the Moon to find Antares and the Teapot, spot brilliant Venus, welcome the equinox, and see the Harvest Moon...
Read moreHow AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of...
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Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
"Black hole stars," making cookies from plastic, tiny sound-powered drones, and more.
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Cyberpunk 2077 launched when it did because its devs wanted it "out the door" says CD Projekt Red CEO, but I wonder if he forgot about that reported mandatory crunch
Look, I know I don't need to tell you how much of a mess Cyberpunk 2077's launch was. There were tons of bugs, it didn't play...
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The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI - after it lost control of its own AI tools - or...
Read moreNVIDIA RISC-V for NVIDIA GPUs at Hot Chips 2026
NVIDIA discussed CUDA for RISC-V and RISC-V in the context of NVLink Fusion systems at Hot Chips 2026 in a neat presentation The post NVIDIA RISC-V...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: gaussfacts 0.0.4 on CRAN: New Feature
Another new release of the gaussfacts package arrived on CRAN. This follows a recent one a good week ago, which had been the first in pretty...
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