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Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students 38
DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens' DNA for Years 39
U.S. News Rankings Are Out After a Tumultuous Year for Colleges 16
US Secret Service 'Dismantles Telecommunications Threat' 59
MI6 Launches Dark Web Portal To Attract Spies In Russia 20
Meta's AI System Llama Approved For Use By US Government Agencies 9
TikTok Algorithm To Be Retrained On US User Data Under Trump Deal 36
The Rush To Return to the Office Is Stalling 51
JPMorgan Says $100K 'Prices Out H-1B' as Indian IT Giants May Accelerate Offshoring With Remote Delivery Already Proven at Scale 120
Could Wildfire Smoke Become America's Leading Climate Health Threat By 2050? 74
Why One Computer Science Professor is 'Feeling Cranky About AI' in Education 62
More Durable UV Coating For Solar Panels Made From Red Onion Skins 39
America's Space Force is Preparing for a New Kind of War 64
Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered 'Homework Helper' Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns 61
Is OpenAI's Video-Generating Tool 'Sora' Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips? 18
Librarians Are Being Asked To Find AI-Hallucinated Books 50
Hard-Fought Treaty To Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle 23
Pentagon Demands Journalists Pledge To Not Obtain Unauthorized Material 263
Decline in K-12 National Reading, Math, Science Scores Probed By US Senate Panel 112
Record-Low 35% in US Satisfied With K-12 Education Quality 119
President To Impose $100,000 Fee For H-1B Worker Visas, White House Says 231
How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society 55
Gen Z Leads Biggest Drop In FICO Scores Since Financial Crisis 110
After Child's Trauma, Chatbot Maker Allegedly Forced Mom To Arbitration For $100 Payout 35
Extreme Heat Spurs New Laws Aimed at Protecting Workers Worldwide 56
Darkest Nights Are Getting Lighter 26
Corals Won't Survive a Warmer Planet, a New Study Finds 44
Anthropic Denies Federal Agencies Use of Claude for Surveillance Tasks 19
Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings as They Fight Mandatory Health Labels 153
A New Report Finds China's Space Program Will Soon Equal That of the US 93
Microsoft Announces $30 Billion Investment In AI Infrastructure, Operations In UK 22
Nature Editorial Calls for Rail Renaissance as Networks Mark 200 Years 80
Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low 79
MBAs Cost More and Are Less Profitable as ROI Falls 18
UK's MI5 'Unlawfully' Obtained Data From Former BBC Journalist 42
FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough To Stop Resale Bots 38
Robinhood Plans To Launch a Startups Fund Open To All Retail Investors 21
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records To the Government For Warrantless Searching 104
TikTok Deal 'Framework' Reached With China 17
President Calls for Six-Month Corporate Reporting Cycle, Citing Cost Savings 110
Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers 37
A Third of UK Firms Using 'Bossware' To Monitor Workers' Activity, Survey Reveals 23
AI's Economic Boost Isn't Showing Up in US GDP, Goldman Says 78
'If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We're Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes' 184
UK's Data Watchdog Warns Students Are Breaching Their Schools' IT Systems 56
Can Lab-Grown Coral Restore Reefs Damaged By Climate Change? 40
Pilot Union Urges FAA To Reject Rainmaker's Drone Cloud-Seeding Plan 18
E-Bike Injuries Are a Massive Burden, Say Surgeons 146
Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts At Request of Cybersecurity Agency 77
US EV Sales Smash Records In August 94
Newfoundland's 10-Year Education Report Calling For Ethical AI Use Contains Over 15 Fake Sources 23
California Bill Lets Renters Escape Exclusive Deals Between ISPs and Landlords 37
EU Countries Delay Deal on New Climate Goal, Diplomats Say 13
Colleges Are About to See a Big Decline in Applicants 92
Coffee Prices Post Largest Annual Jump Since 1997 84
Scientists Link Hundreds of Severe Heat Waves To Fossil Fuel Producers' Pollution 176
Windows Developers Can Now Publish Apps To Microsoft's Store Without Fees 24
'No Tax On Tips' Includes Digital Creators, Too 61
The US Is Now the Largest Investor In Commercial Spyware 19
Roku Wants You To See a Lot More AI-Generated Ads 23
Wind and Solar Power Fuel Over One-Third of Brazil's Electricity For First Time 46
Firefox Finally Introducing MKV Playback Support 48
As World Gets Hotter, Americans Are Turning To More Sugar, Study Finds 116
US Warns Hidden Radios May Be Embedded In Solar-Powered Highway Infrastructure 92
Oracle's Best Day Since 1992 Puts Ellison on Top of the World's Richest List 42
ATM Fees Are at a Record High, a New Survey Finds 112
Wyden Says Microsoft Flaws Led to Hack of US Hospital System 39
FAA Warns Airlines About Lithium Battery Dangers After 50 Incidents This Year 29
Bending Spoons Buys Video Platform Vimeo for $1.38 Billion 18
Narrative Podcasts Are Disappearing 44
How Britain Built Some of the World's Safest Roads 181
Growth Collides With Rising Seas in Charleston 50
Protect Arctic From 'Dangerous' Climate Engineering, Scientists Warn 49
HHS Asks All Employees To Start Using ChatGPT 64
US High School Students Lose Ground In Math and Reading, Continuing Yearslong Decline 215
Reuters Withdraws Xi, Putin Longevity Video After China State TV Pulls Legal Permission To Use It 93
The Renewed Bid To End Quarterly Earnings Reports 46
US Created 911,000 Fewer Jobs Than Previously Thought in the 12 Months Through March 144
US Tech Companies Enabled the Surveillance and Detention of Hundreds of Thousands in China 29
Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton Species That Fuels the Food Web 121
Disposable Face Masks Used During Covid Have Left Chemical Timebomb 159
William Shatner Says He 'Didn't Earn a Penny' From Star Trek Re-Runs 81
Nova Launcher's Founder and Sole Developer Has Left 20
Texas Sued Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban 111
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 47
Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub's Forced Copilot AI Features 63
Publishers Demand 'AI Overview' Traffic Stats from Google, Alleging 'Forced' Deals 19
AI Tool Usage 'Correlates Negatively' With Performance in CS Class, Estonian Study Finds 63
New In Firefox Nightly Builds: Copilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets, JPEG-XL Support 45
Wired Retracts Article By 'AI Freelancer' - and Business Insider Retracts 38 37
2.5 Million American Students Now Required to Lock Their Cellphones in Magnetic Pouches 148
Rust Foundation Announces 'Innovation Lab' to Support Impactful Rust Projects 30
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets 125
Trump To Impose Tariffs On Semiconductor Imports From Firms Not Moving Production To US 159
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year 40
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors' AI Lawsuit 36
Scientists Tap 'Secret' Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World 49
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris's Water-Based Building Cooling Network 12
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions 59
Public Strongly Backs Aim of 30% of Land and Sea Set Aside For Nature, Poll Finds 87
Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website 69
UK Government Trial of M365 Copilot Finds No Clear Productivity Boost 85
Air Pollution Can Drive Devastating Forms of Dementia, Research Suggests 105
Intel Outspends Rivals In R&D: 28% More Than Nvidia, 156% More Than AMD 55
Germany Already Met Its 2028 Goal for Reducing Coal-Fired Power 105
Adobe's Premiere Video Editor is Coming To iPhone For Free 22
Microsoft's 6502 BASIC Is Now Open Source 50
AI Not Affecting Job Market Much So Far, New York Fed Says 28
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Says Investing For a Living Could Replace Labor in a Post-AI World 134
New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats 18
Switzerland Releases Open-Source AI Model Built For Privacy 26
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube, Drowning Out Real History 100
US Workers Are Becoming More Stressed About Finances, BofA Survey Shows 201
Dumbing Down the SAT Bodes Poorly for Education 115
America is in a Serious Jobs Slump 321
World's Biggest Iceberg Breaks Up After 40 Years 27
Dozens of Scientists Find Errors in a New Energy Department Climate Report 133
SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In 'Sovereign Cloud' 18
Summer 2025 is the Warmest on Record for the UK 49
Poor Amazon Rains Linked To Brazil Deforestation 20
YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address 71
Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds 211
The US Population Could Shrink in 2025, For the First Time Ever 125
85% of College Students Report AI Use 57
US Tourism Suffers 8.2% Decline 209
Americans Are Having Less Sex Than Ever 175
400 'Tech Utopian' Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State 80
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit 59
Rare Snail Has a 1-in-40,000 Chance of Finding a Mate. New Zealand Begins the Search 48
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube 97
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What's the Government's Strategy? 93
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video - and Is This Just the Beginning? 28
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years 44
Collapse of Critical Atlantic Current Is No Longer Low-Likelihood, Study Finds 138
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens 'American Freedoms' 116
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers' Data, Court Filing Suggests 16
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson 41
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access 'Mature Content' Games 50
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly 33
UK Unions Want 'Worker First' Plan For AI as People Fear For Their Jobs 55
Apple Warns UK Against Introducing Tougher Tech Regulation 45
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers 201
Reading For Fun Is Plummeting In the US, and Experts Are Concerned 128
4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over Its Age Verification Law 103
Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Allegations of Organized Bias 173
Deforestation Has Killed Half a Million People in Past 20 Years, Study Finds 68
South Korea Bans Phones in School Classrooms Nationwide 25
Wikipedia Editors Reject Founder's AI Review Proposal After ChatGPT Fails Basic Policy Test 37
Canada's Tech Job Market Has Gone From Boom To Bust In Last Five Years 88
Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Causes 90,000 Premature US Deaths Each Year, Says New Study 104
Google is Building a Duolingo Rival Into the Translate App 20
LibreOffice Stakes Claim as Strategic Sovereignty Tool For Governments 46
Video Platform Kick Investigated Over Streamer's Death 47
Linux Turns 34 66
FTC Warns Tech Giants Not To Bow To Foreign Pressure on Encryption 56
In a Hotter World, Some People Age Faster, Researchers Find 36
Stock Exchanges Urge Regulators To Crack Down on 'Tokenised Stocks' 22
Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Over Age Verification Law 71
Burning Man Hit By 50 MPH Dust Storm. Possible Monsoon Thunderstorms Forecast 60
30 Years of Satellite Data Confirm Predictions from Early Models of Sea Level Rise 199
America's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Will Test a Quantum Alternative to GPS for the US Space Force 22
Firefox 142's Link Previews Have a New Option: AI-Generated Summaries 73
FBI Warns Russian Hackers Targeted 'Thousands' of Critical US Infrastructure IT Systems 69
YouTube's Sneaky AI 'Experiment': Is Social Media Embracing AI-Generated Content? 46
Solar Energy Was America's Largest Source of New Energy for 21 Straight Months 103
Intel's New Funding Came From Already-Awarded Grants. So What Happens Next? 93
Nvidia Release Massive AI-Ready Open European Language Dataset and Tools 23
FSF Announces Photo Contest Honoring 40 Years of Free Software 9
Arch Linux Faces 'Ongoing' DDoS Attack 29
Amid Service Disruption, Colt Confirms 'Criminal Group' Accessed Their Data, As Ransomware Gang Threatens to Sell It 7
US Is Throwing Away the Critical Minerals It Needs, Analysis Shows 85
Record Solar Growth Keeps China's CO2 Falling in First Half of 2025 61
4chan Refuses To Pay UK Online Safety Act Fines 95
Workers Need Better Protections From the Heat 26
Intel Has Agreed To a Deal For US To Take 10% Equity Stake, Trump Says 105
US Strips Ocean and Air Pollution Monitoring From Next-Gen Weather Satellites 121
Denmark To Abolish VAT On Books To Get More People Reading 61
Artificial Light Has Essentially Lengthened Birds' Day 18
Solar Panels in Space 'Could Provide 80% of Europe's Renewable Energy By 2050' 107
US Will Not Approve Solar or Wind Power Projects, President Says 224
UAE Adds Newborns To Major Genome Project 29
FTC Sues LA Fitness For Making it Difficult for Consumers To Cancel Gym Memberships 77
India Seeks Ban on Online Betting Apps To Curb Addiction 41
Dramatic Slowdown in Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Surprises Scientists 68
India's Got Time 76
Wyoming Launches First State-Backed Stablecoin on Seven Blockchains 134
Three-Quarters of Countries Face Below-Replacement Fertility by 2050 243
UK is Lagging Behind Rest of World in Tackling Big Tech, Says Fortnite Chief 69
US FTC Sues Ticket Reseller For Evading Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Ticket Limits 158
US Spy Chief Gabbard Says UK Agreed To Drop 'Backdoor' Mandate for Apple 81
How Can England Possibly Be Running Out of Water? 169
Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses 43
Wikipedia Volunteer Uncovers Decade-Long Campaign That Created 335 Articles About One Composer 59
America's EV Registrations Rise 7% in 2025 - Giving EVs a 7.5% Market Share 247
In Barcelona, Certain Buses Run On Biomethane Produced From Human Waste 33
Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots 31
Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions 22
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts 123
Arctic Glaciers Face 'Terminal' Decline As Microbes Accelerate Ice Melt 35
Chinese State Media Calls US a 'Surveillance Empire' Over Trackers In Chips 103
Croatia Revises Digital Nomad Visa To Last Up To 3 Years 22
'Cheapfake' AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube 28
New Zealand's Population Exodus Hits 13-Year High as Economy Worsens 56
VP.NET Publishes SGX Enclave Code: Zero-Trust Privacy You Can Actually Verify 12
Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By 'Consuming' Other Robots 25
Sam Altman Says 'Yes,' AI Is In a Bubble 56
African Union Urges Adoption of World Map Showing Continent's True Size 259
Trump Administration Considers Stake In Intel 101
Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks Deadlocked as Negotiations Draw To a Close 17
Commissioner of Canada Elections Will 'Explore the Use' of AI 12
Fintech, Crypto CEOs Urge US President To Block Banks' Data-Access Fees 23
New York Sues Zelle Parent Company, Alleging It Enabled Fraud 28
China's Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley 89
Temperature Records Broken as Extreme Heat Grips Parts of Europe 159
US Embeds Trackers in AI Chip Shipments To Catch Diversions To China 47
Boston Public Library Aims To Increase Access To a Vast Historic Archive Using AI 30
UK Government Suggests Deleting Files To Save Water 119
Mozilla Under Fire For Firefox AI 'Bloat' That Blows Up CPU and Drains Battery 107
Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government 61
Biochar From Human Waste Could Solve Global Fertilizer Shortages, Study Finds 34
America's Clean Hydrogen Dreams Are Fading, Again 27
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World 58
'Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work At Chipotle.' 178
Wikipedia Operator Loses Court Challenge To UK Online Safety Act Regulations 54
It's Steve Wozniak's 75th Birthday. Whatever Happened to His YouTube Lawsuit? 98
How 12 'Enola Gay' Crew Members Remember Dropping the Atomic Bomb 130
How Python is Fighting Open Source's 'Phantom' Dependencies Problem 33
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires 36
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centers Share Blame 88
A Huge $2 Billion 'Solar + Storage' Project in California Powers Up 83
'Hour of Code' Announces It's Now Evolving Into 'Hour of AI' 35
Strange Wild Pigs in California - What Turned Their Flesh Blue? 56
Initiative Seeks AI Lab to Build 'American Truly Open Models' (ATOM) 20
Students Have Been Called to the Office - Or Arrested - for False Alarms from AI-Powered Surveillance Systems 162
California Successfully Tests 'Virtual Power Plant', Drawing Power From Batteries in 100,000 Homes 104
UK Courts Service 'Covered Up' IT Bug That Lost Evidence 20
The FCC Will Review Emergency Alert Systems in the US 29
China Tells Brokers To Stop Touting Stablecoins To Cool Frenzy 5
The Troubling Decline in Conscientiousness 122
UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigration Databases 25
Loyalty Programs Are Keeping America's Airlines Aloft 104
Intel CEO Hits Out at 'Misinformation' After US President Calls on Him To Resign 65
The Backlash Against Duolingo Going 'AI-First' Didn't Even Matter 72
OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars To 1,000 Researchers, Engineers 19
Digital Foundry, the Most Trusted Name in Game Console Analysis, is Going Independent 9
'Facial Recognition Tech Mistook Me For Wanted Man' 112
Ask Slashdot: Who's Still Using an RSS Reader? 181
Trump Vows 100% Tariff On Chips, Unless Companies Are Building In the US 108
Coding Error Blamed After Parts of Constitution Disappear From US Website 71
Chemical Pollution a Threat Comparable To Climate Change, Scientists Warn 18

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