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Trump's Iran attack was ferocious. But has it actually worked? - The
Economist (No paywall)
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MIDNIGHT HAMMER”, as America called its strike on Iran, was a vast
raid involving more than 125 military aircraft. It was the
largest-ever strike by B-2 stealth bombers, and the first use in
battle of the GBU-57, America’s largest bunker-buster bomb. Seven
bombers flew east over the Atlantic from Whiteman air-force base in
Missouri on the 37-hour mission to Iran and back, helped by in-flight
refuelling tankers and fighter jets to sweep the skies ahead of them.
Decoy planes flew west over the Pacific to confuse anyone watching
their movement. Dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles were also fired at
Iran from submarines. Iranian forces did not respond. The scope and
scale of the operation would “take the breath away” of most
observers, boasted Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary.

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Health insurers promise to reduce barriers to care under pressure from
Trump administration
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The pledge came from two major insurance industry lobbying groups,
America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield
Association, and member insurers who together cover almost 260 million
Americans.

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The number of abortions kept rising in 2024 because of telehealth
prescriptions, report finds
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SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said on a call
with reporters Monday that it’s a priority for her group to keep
pushing U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other
officials to investigate the safety of abortion pills — and to
require that they be dispensed only in person.

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Council Post: From Cost-Per-Click To Cost-Per-Outcome: How AI Flips
Optimization On Its Head
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Optimizing for outcomes requires the ability to predict the future--an
impossibility, until now.

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Amgen's obesity drug led to high discontinuation rates in mid-stage
trial, as company plans to adjust dosing
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Patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes lost up to 12.3% of their
weight when analyzing all participants and up to 17% when analyzing
those who didn’t discontinue, according to results that were
published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine and will be
presented here at the American Diabetes Association meeting.















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Revolut chief in line for Musk-style payday at $150bn valuation - FT
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Nik Storonsky struck deal before SoftBank funding round that awards
him more shares if valuation clears set hurdles

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Apple releases new beta builds of all its flashy new Liquid
Glass-ified OS updates
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No “public beta” yet, but these are usually more usable than the
first betas.

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Apple read your mean tweets about Liquid Glass and Finder
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The other controversial change centered on the imagery for the Finder
app in macOS Tahoe. The previous developer beta flipped the colors in
the icon, putting blue on the right and white on the left. It's a
reversal of decades of Mac design, which has long had a lighter shade
on the right and a darker color on the left, even as other details of
the face illustration have changed. And people were not pleased about
it. The usual color layout has returned in the current developer beta.

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Media Matters is suing the FTC to block investigation into X
advertiser boycott
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Media Matters for America has sued the FTC, claiming that the agency
is targeting it in retaliation for past criticisms of the social media
platform X.














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Novo Nordisk's new obesity drug beats Wegovy weight loss in early
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Novo Nordisk's new weight-loss drug helped patients lose even more
weight on average than its current Wegovy blockbuster treatment, an
early-stage trial showed, as the drugmaker races to develop the next
generation of obesity medicines.

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See the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory - MIT
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The first spectacular images taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
have been released for the world to peruse: a panoply of iridescent
galaxies and shimmering nebulas. This is the dawn of the Rubin
Observatory, says Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist and astronomer at
Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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U2 guitarist The Edge becomes Irish citizen - after 62 years in the
country
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His comments came amid a growing backlash against immigration in the
US and Europe, including Ireland and Northern Ireland. Thousands of
protesters attended a rally in central Dublin on Sunday, some holding
banners saying "Ireland is full", others with caps saying "Make
Ireland Great Again".

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Three Chinese Firms Said in Next Bidding Round for Suez Assets -
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Chinese state-owned firms Beijing Capital Group Co., China State
Construction Engineering Corp. and Guangdong Holdings Ltd. are among
bidders for Suez SAs Chinese water infrastructure assets, according to
people familiar with the situation.














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Oman plans to impose personal income tax, a first among Gulf states
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Oman has announced plans to issue a personal income tax as part of a
broader push to move the sultanate's economy away from reliance on
hydrocarbons. The move, issued by royal decree on Monday, is a first
among the six-member oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council. However, the
5% tax won't be imposed until 2028. Only those who make upward of
$109,000 annually -- the top 1% of earners in Oman -- will be required
to pay it. It's unclear whether this will inspire other nations in the
area to follow suit.

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How to Fix the Cracks in the Nuclear Dam - Foreign Policy (No paywall)
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Argument: How to Fix the Cracks in the Nuclear Dam

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Canada Says Network Devices Compromised in China-Linked Hack -
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Canada's cybersecurity agency said Chinese-backed hackers were likely
behind recent malicious activity targeting domestic telecommunications
infrastructure, warning that three network devices registered to a
Canadian company were compromised in the attacks.

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Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base in Qatar
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Iran retaliated against the U.S. on Monday, launching missiles at a
U.S. base in Qatar, according to a U.S. defense official and a
statement from the Qatar foreign ministry. The missiles targeted Al
Udeid Air Base outside Doha and were intercepted by air defenses
before they could strike the base, the Qatari government said. "At
this time, there are no reports of U.S. casualties" from the barrage
of short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles fired by Iran, the
U.S. defense official said.














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What to Know About the French Syringe Attacks - The Cut (No paywall)
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At least 12 young women between the ages of 14 and 20 were
hospitalized in France following countrywide attacks using syringes
this past weekend. French police have detained at least a dozen
suspects.

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A.I. Computing Power Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots
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As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is
opening around the world.

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Two billion people don't have safe drinking water: what does this
really mean for them?
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For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a
million, it means dying from disease.

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Why don't Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator.
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In "The Ghost Lab," Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal
investigators to understand their relationship with science and
society.














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MAHA eyes tolerance as alcohol-related harms emerge
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O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that
govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she
worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her story
debunking a bogus theory about transgender kids was nominated for a
2024 GLAAD Media Award. You can reach Rose on Signal at
rosebroderick.11.

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Iran's Promise of Payback Keeps World Powers, Markets on Edge -
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Iran vowed retaliation and continued attacks on Israel following US
strikes on its nuclear facilities, fueling fears of a wider war in the
Middle East and rattling global markets.

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Your Employees Hate These Tasks at Work. They Say AI Can Help - Inc
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New research commissioned by AI writing tool Grammarly and conducted
by Talker Research found nearly half of the workers who responded hate
the repetitive office tasks that make up the daily grind. The 44
percent total is no surprise, and you've probably had similar thoughts
when you have to fill in a travel budget request form for Steve in
Accounts - yet again. But it's the AI era, and workers are
increasingly aware that there are tools that can help wipe out this
recurring drudgery - and 62 percent of the survey respondents said
there are plenty of tasks they'd like to speed up with AI.

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The number of abortions kept rising in 2024 because of telehealth
prescriptions, report finds - STAT (No paywall)
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The latest report from the WeCount project of the Society of Family
Planning, which supports abortion access, was released a day before
the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that
overturned Roe v. Wade - and ended nearly 50 years of legal abortion
nationally for most of pregnancy.














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The Holy Grail of automation: Now a robot can unload a truck - WSJ (No
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Loading and unloading a truck is backbreaking, mind-numbing work that
retailers and parcel carriers have tried to solve for years. Workers
may not stay long in these jobs. Summers and winters are particularly
grueling for anyone stuck in a metal trailer, slinging heavy boxes.
Injuries are common.

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U.S.-Iran Live: No Injuries After Iran Attacks Base In Qatar - Forbes
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Iran fired missiles Monday at a U.S. base in Qatar, according to
multiple reports, defying President Donald Trump after he warned
against Iranian retaliation for U.S. strikes on three nuclear
facilities in Iran.

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Israel says it struck Tehran's Evin prison and Fordo access routes
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Iran's judiciary says the attack damaged parts of Evin, a notorious
facility which holds many political prisoners.

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The West has stopped losing its religion - The Economist (No paywall)
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FOR DECADES America's fastest-growing religious affiliation was no
religion at all. In 1990 just 5% of Americans said they were atheists,
agnostics or believed in nothing in particular. By 2019 some 30%
ticked those boxes. Those who left the pews became more socially
liberal, married later and had fewer children. Churches, where once
half of Americans mingled every Sunday, faded in civic life. Yet for
the first time in half a century, the march of secularism has stopped
(see chart 1).














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Big Tech joins the military, with Meta, Palantir and OpenAI in front
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The timing couldn't be more significant. As conflicts like the
Israel-Iran war demonstrate the growing role of AI in warfare, the
companies that once resisted military partnerships are now integral to
America's defense strategy.

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Zuckerberg leads AI recruitment blitz armed with $100 million pay
packages - WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=204055&nl=daily]
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Mark Zuckerberg is spending his days firing off emails and WhatsApp
messages to the sharpest minds in artificial intelligence in a
frenzied effort to play catch-up. He has personally reached out to
hundreds of researchers, scientists, infrastructure engineers, product
stars and entrepreneurs to try to get them to join a new
Superintelligence lab he's putting together.

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Iran war: Did Trump take out Iran's nuclear facilities in US strike?
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Over the weekend, the United States bombed three nuclear facilities in
Iran. Iran has been considered a political risk to America since the
1979 revolution, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that
it cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. The strikes mark yet
another attempt in a long-running US strategy to rein in Iran's
nuclear ambitions.

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The Business of Betting on Catastrophe
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World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a
threshold. They're part of a booming market where investors turn
calamity into capital.













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Paloma Shemirani's brothers say she refused chemotherapy because of
their mother's beliefs.

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The Perils of Middle East Triumphalism - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
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To many outside the Middle East, the American and Israeli war with
Iran reads like a linear narrative: the two allies' formidable
militaries and intelligence agencies arrayed against their adversary,
poised to prevail, on the cusp of indisputable, decisive triumph. The
fight and its expected outcome are viewed through the prism of
familiar antecedents: Hitler's Germany overwhelmed, defeated, willing
to acquiesce to the victor's demands; Japan following suit. When
proponents of this war speak of one side's surrender and of the other
being on the right side of history, it is on such clear-cut notions of
progress and finality that they rely. History, to them, advances in a
straight line, swiftly heading to safe shores, and one had better
choose the correct side or be left adrift.

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Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A. - The
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American sports come with implied narratives. The story of baseball is
fundamentally nostalgic, connecting us to childhood and to the
country's pastoral beginnings. Football tells a story of manly grit,
with echoes of the battlefield. Basketball is the city game, as the
sportswriter Pete Axthelm called it half a century ago, and its chief
narrative, for decades, was about escaping the ghetto. Religious
metaphors run hotter in basketball than in other sports: when Spike
Lee set out to make an ode to New York City hoops, he named his
protagonist Jesus Shuttlesworth, for the N.B.A. Hall of Famer Earl
(Jesus) Monroe; LeBron James appeared on the cover of Sports
Illustrated at the age of seventeen as The Chosen One. Every tall and
prodigiously skilled teen-ager feels like an act of God. And no sport,
perhaps other than soccer, with its pibes and craquesthe impoverished
dribbling and juggling machines who hope to become the next Maradona
or Pelso deeply mythologizes the search for talent. The savior of your
N.B.A. franchise might be getting left off his high-school team in
Wilmington, North Carolina, or he might be selling sunglasses on the
streets of Athens, Greece, to help his Nigerian immigrant parents make
ends meet, or he might be living with his mother in a one-bedroom
apartment in Akron, Ohio. You just have to find him.

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The China Wild Card in the Iran Strike Aftermath
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Beijing is one of Tehran’s most important economic partners. But
experts question how much China will help Iran if it retaliates
against the United States.



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What Is The Largest Engine Ever Put On A Plane? - SlashGear
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The world's biggest plane engine might surprise you.

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The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs
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With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking
a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

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Dr. Demento Announces His Retirement After 55 Years on the Air
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Barry Hansen, mostly known by his D.J. name, said he'd end his show's
run after 55 years of playing parody songs. His syndicated show was
once heard on more than 150 radio stations.

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What to Know About U.S. Warning to Citizens Abroad Amid Israel-Iran
Conflict
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The State Department warned of the potential for demonstrations
against Americans overseas because of U.S. intervention in the
Israel-Iran conflict. What you need to know.



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Electric Boats Offer a More Eco-Friendly Way to Travel in the Amazon
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A growing fleet of electric boats ferries Indigenous people through
the heart of the Ecuadorean Amazon, providing a cheaper and greener
alternative to gas-powered vessels.

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Council Post: Navigating The Generative AI Technology Stack: A
Framework For Application Selection
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When evaluating vendor solutions for generative AI, it's important to
understand the core components of the supporting technology stack.

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Vera Rubin Observatory Reveals Telescope's First Images of Galaxies,
Nebulas and Asteroids
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Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and
thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded
observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy.

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The Improbability Of Canada's Stanley Cup Drought
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The Florida Panthers won a second straight Stanley Cup and extended
Canadian teams' drought another year. The odds of such a cold streak
are exceptionally low.



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I See Your Smartphone-Addicted Life - The Atlantic (No paywall)
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Unlike nearly 98 percent of Americans under the age of 50, I don't
have a smartphone. Actually, I've never had a smartphone. I've never
called an Uber, never dropped a pin, never used Venmo or Spotify or a
dating app, never been in a group chat, never been jealous of someone
on Instagram (because I've never been on Instagram). I used to feel
ashamed of this, or rather, I was made to feel ashamed. For a long
time, people either didn't believe me when I told them that I didn't
have a smartphone, or reacted with a sort of embarrassed disdain, like
they'd just realized I was the source of an unpleasant odor they'd
been ignoring. But over the past two years, the reaction has changed.
As the costs of being always online have become more apparent, the
offline, air-gapped, inaccessible person has become an object of
fascination, even envy. I have to confess that Ive become a little
smug about being a Never-Phonera holdout who somehow went from being
left behind to ahead of the curve.

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Could future computers run on human brain cells?
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Hopkins researchers tout the promise of 'organoid intelligence,' which
could one-day yield computers that are faster, more efficient, and
more powerful than silicon-based computing and AI

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What happens to Nato if the US steps back? - FT (No paywall)
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The American military has been the alliance's bedrock. But shifting US
priorities, including in the Middle East, are putting new pressure on
European allies

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'A timebomb': could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking
water of millions?
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Scientists fear thousands of tonnes of chemicals dumped in mining
tunnels in Alsace may seep into an aquifer with devastating
consequences for people and wildlife
























 











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There Is a Beach That Contains Clues of How a Bird Flu Pandemic Could
Take Off - Scientific American (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=204055&nl=daily]
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The first hints that a new strain of avian illness is emerging could
be found on this beach on Delaware Bay, where migrating birds flock.
Here's what virus detectives who return there every year know right
now.

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Millions of resumes never make it past the bots. One man is trying to
find why. - WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=204055&nl=daily]
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U.S. job hunters submit millions of online applications every year.
Often they get an automatic rejection or no response at all, never
knowing if they got a fair shake from the algorithms that gatekeep
today's job market.

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