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AI Cheating is So Out of Hand In America's Schools That the Blue Books
Are Coming Back
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Pen and paper is back, baby.

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This Tokyo startup is turning discarded kimonos into stylish sneakers
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In Japan, thousands of kimonos are gathering dust in people's closets
-- or worse, ending up in the trash. One startup is transforming these
unwanted kimonos into everyday apparel, in a bid to reduce textile
waste and preserve traditional manufacturing industries like
shoemaking.

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The Enduring Appeal of the American Drive-In
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Has anything really changed at drive-in theaters across the country? A
photographer based in Bozeman, Mont., visited a few to find out.

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Trade Crime Soars as Trump's Tariffs Hit
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President Trump's steep global tariffs have supercharged efforts to
evade them. Some U.S. companies say the government is ill-equipped to
keep up.















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Breaking Down the $524 Billion Investment Needed to Rebuild Ukraine
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Ukraine will require an estimated $524B over the next decade to
recover from the Russia-Ukraine war. Which sectors have been most
impacted?

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A Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Advancing Toward the U.S.
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After a decades-long campaign to beat screwworms down to Panama,
they're speeding back up north.

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North Korea infiltrates US remote jobs with the help of everyday
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In prolific posts on her TikTok account, which grew to more than
100,000 followers, she talked about her busy life working from home
with clients in the computer business and the fantasy book she had
started writing. She posted about liberal political causes, her meals
and her travels to see her favorite Japanese pop band.

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Report: TuSimple sent sensitive self-driving data to China after US
national security agreement
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Self-driving truck startup TuSimple sent a trove of sensitive data to
a Beijing-owned firm after committing to the U.S. government that it
would cease such transfers under a national security agreement














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American investment in soccer will soon face a stern opponent: itself
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Americans who bought foreign teams will soon be competing with
domestic MLS owners in a battle for fans' wallets

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Trump figured out how to hit Harvard where it really hurts
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The Trump administrations recent decision to bar international
students from attending Harvard University was less a policy decision
than an act of war. The White House had hoped its opening salvo
against the nations oldest university would yield the kind of
immediate capitulation offered by Columbia University. When Harvard
chose to fight back instead, Trump decided to hit the university where
it hurts most.

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The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites
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There have never been so many satellites orbiting Earth as there are
today, thanks in part to the launch of mega constellations like
SpaceX's Starlink internet service - and now we are learning just how
the sun's activity can affect them

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Wall Street bets the worst of Trump's trade war is behind it - WSJ (No
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The latest example came Tuesday, when news of easing trade tensions
between the U.S. and the EU powered a 2% increase in the S&P 500. It
was the largest single-day gain since May 12, when a rollback of
tariffs between the U.S. and China spurred an even larger market
rally.














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Who's to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up? - WIRED (No paywall)
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Over the past year, veteran software engineer Jay Prakash Thakur has
spent his nights and weekends prototyping AI agents that could, in the
near future, order meals and engineer mobile apps almost entirely on
their own. His agents, while surprisingly capable, have also exposed
new legal questions that await companies trying to capitalize on
Silicon Valley's hottest new technology.

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Musk Says GOP Megabill Undermines DOGE
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Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul who had a near-constant presence
in the early weeks of President Donald Trump's second-term
administration, has expressed dissatisfaction with Trump's legislative
priority: a massive tax and spending package dubbed the big, beautiful
bill.

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AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads
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: 'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'

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Iran takes Trump's negotiators for a ride - WSJ (No paywall)
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The nuclear negotiations between Iran and the U.S. appear to be at an
impasse. The temptation for President Trump will be to declare victory
and pocket a status quo in which Tehran refrains from testing a nuke.
The White House may even find comfort in a question senior officials
in the Biden administration asked themselves: Why hasnt Iran already
gone nuclear?














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55-year-old Kami Rita Sherpa breaks his own record: climbing Mount
Everest 31 times
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Lumping his 31 feats together, Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed nearly
90,000 feet above sea level on the famous peak. He first climbed to
the top of the world's highest mountain in 1994.

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Macron navigates rocky path to recognising Palestinian state
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French President Emmanuel Macron is leaning towards recognising a
Palestinian state, but diplomats and experts say such a move may prove
a premature and ineffective way to pressure Israel into moving towards
a peace deal with the Palestinians.

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Brussels to propose pragmatic 90 percent climate target for 2040
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BRUSSELS The European Commission will tell countries to cut 90 percent
of their planet-warming emissions by 2040, but offer flexibilities to
make the goal politically palatable, EU climate chief Teresa Ribera
told POLITICO.

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Earth is heading for 2.7C warming this century. We may avoid the worst
climate scenarios - but the outlook is still dire
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The world seems to have avoided truly catastrophic climate scenarios,
and global emissions may be about to peak. But we're by no means out
of danger














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17 E.U. countries sound alarm over Hungarian LGBTQ laws
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Hungary's parliament passed legislation in March that creates a legal
basis to ban Pride marches and lets police use facial recognition
cameras to identify people who attend.

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A Reaction to Alzheimer's Fraud
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Vladimir Putin's war economy is cooling, but Russians still feel
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Salary growth for new hires is slowing, according to an FT analysis,
yet not enough to shift views on the war

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Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more
successfully
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Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology,
and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in
Ethology article that














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With Direct Flights From the U.S., Greenland Awaits More Tourists
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Already in the geopolitical spotlight, the country prepares for the
first direct flights from the United States. In the capital of Nuuk,
the expected tourism influx is both exciting and worrying.

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YouTube CEO recalls moving to Lucknow in Class 7 after childhood in
US: 'I sounded funny'
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Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube, reflected on his early years in Lucknow
during a podcast with Nikhil Kamath. | Trending

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New aerospace medicine program to study long-term effects of space
travel
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Texas A&M University's Aerospace Medicine Program is putting
long-duration spaceflight at the center of its research and education,
a first-of-its-kind initiative.

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Anti-feminist candidate woos young voters in South Korean poll - FT
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Ruling party calls for unity as they seek to challenge leftwing
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Fake discounts on Shein 'breach law', EU says
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Shein has one month to respond to the EU's findings or face fines
based on its sales, the bloc has said.

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'The Interview': Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted
Lives
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The historian is on a mission to get the best and brightest out of
their lucrative jobs and into morally ambitious work.

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Tiny LEDs May Power Future AI Inteconnects
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In a bold move, TSMC partners with Avicena to revolutionize AI data
centers using microLED-based interconnects. Ditching lasers for LEDs,
this tech promises energy efficiency and lower costs, at the expense
of more fibers. Could this be the future of AI scale-up networks? #AI
#Innovation

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Thai and Cambodian Soldiers Briefly Clash in Disputed Border Area -
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BANGKOK (AP) Thai and Cambodian soldiers briefly fired at each other
in their disputed border area Wednesday, the Thai and Cambodian armies
said.













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The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley
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In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao reports on how Indigenous
communities in Chile are fighting to protect their land from AI-driven
resource extraction.

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The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers
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Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners

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Dieselgate pollution killed 16,000 people in UK, study estimates
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Experts decry lack of UK government action and warn a further 6,000
early deaths could occur

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Rat birth control rolls out in NYC this month. What to know about the
city's new strategy for reducing rodents
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New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for
tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control.



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The Scripps National Spelling Bee celebrates its 100th anniversary
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Subtle shifts in tone, tension, and timing point to deeper partnership
strain.
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Most cofounder relationships don't explode--they erode. Here's how to
catch the quiet signs before they damage your business.

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RFK Jr. ends Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy children,
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Experts call unilateral decision by HHS secretary unprecedented

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Efficiency Without Morality Is Tyranny
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Notes on Sedation, Technocracy, and AI



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Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced
by 83%
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Exhaust isn't the only impact of cars, they also emit tiny brake
particles. Thru regen braking, EVs reduce that (but bikes are even
better!)

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Patient dies in trial of Rocket gene therapy for heart condition
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The FDA has placed a clinical hold on the study while Rocket works
with trial monitors and experts to investigate the cause of the
patient's death.

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Trump administration seeks to pull up to $100m in Harvard funding
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Federal agencies will review their grants to the top university to
decide whether they should be terminated.

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Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa
interviews
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Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities
that rely on foreign students for revenue



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Congress Takes Aim at a Pillar of Civil Society - Foreign Policy (No
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Argument: Congress Takes Aim at a Pillar of Civil Society

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Musk Says He Is Disappointed With Trump's Big Beautiful Bill - Forbes
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Elon Musk said he is disappointed with President Donald Trump's big,
beautiful bill passed by the House last week, offering his most direct
criticism of a signature White House policy after recently stepping
back from his work as the leader of the governments Department of
Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Sodium-air fuel cell for high energy density and low-cost electric
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This work demonstrates a new type of metal-air fuel cell utilizing
liquid sodium metal,a solid electrolyte membrane, and humidified air,
which delivers high energy densityelectricity while simultaneously
using its discharge product to capture atmosphericcarbon dioxide or as
a valuable industrial chemical. Such fuel cells may allow
utilizationof sodium, the sixth most abundant element on Earth, as an
energy carrier for applicationsin hard-to-decarbonize transportation
and mobile electricity delivery.

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Everybody's mad about Uno - WSJ (No paywall)
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That is especially true among young adults, who organize game nights
around Uno, incorporate drinking rules and embrace increasingly
cutthroat variations. But taking a game that already seemed designed
to make people mad and reintroducing it to grown-ups who were raised
on different rules can be a recipe for tension.

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Putin has retooled Russia's economy to focus only on war - WSJ (No
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Russia's successes on the front lines in Ukraine are a big reason why
Vladimir Putin isnt yet ready to sign up to President Trump's peace
efforts. Some of his neighbors fear the success of the war machine now
driving its economy means he never will.

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What's the price outlook for weight-loss drugs? - WSJ (No paywall)
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For more than two years, drugs administered under the brand names
Ozempic, which treats diabetes, and Wegovy, sold for obesity, were on
the Food and Drug Administrations list of drugs in short supply in the
U.S. The FDA in recent months has declared shortages over in the U.S.,
but prices remain high.

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