A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she’s a Kalshi lobbyist Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now. One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics. Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin. Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed. Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google” One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model. A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain’s Museo de Historia de la Computación. One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics. Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin. Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed. Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google” One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model. A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain’s Museo de Historia de la Computación. NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations “We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit.” What’s been driving Hawaii’s lava fountains? Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day. AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software Study finds coding efficiency gains get “absorbed” by human review “bottleneck.” Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine. PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023 “The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle.” AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus. If you’re looking, here’s a “good deal” for NASA and the European Space Agency “We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US.” Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky. 1. Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules 2. Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone 3. SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink 4. Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here 5. AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Nationwide 800 MHz spectrum to help Starlink provide mobile coverage indoors. Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency

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