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Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Order Has Mapmakers Completely Lost
One of US President Donald Trump’s first actions upon returning to power was ordering the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed. But mapmakers are still largely waiting for the green light.
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Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
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Donald Trump wants to claw back clean energy funding
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 24, 2025. The Trump administration sent a memo instructing federal agencies to pause grant, loan, and other financial assistance programs. It’s a catch-all for a wide range of programs President Donald Trump has crusaded…
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Logitech’s peel-and-stick radar sensors could let companies invisibly monitor their offices
Logitech sales boomed during the pandemic as people outfitted their home offices, and it’s getting a piece of the hybrid workplace with teleconferencing gear too. But Logitech’s also got a little-known corporate office management solution that could soon expand beyond conference rooms — using a pebble-shaped person detection device called the Logitech Spot. It’s a…
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Climate change made the Los Angeles wildfires more likely
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 9: A view of flames at the mountain as seen from Topanga Canyon near Pacific Palisades in Topanga, Los Angeles, California, United States on January 9, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images Climate change helped to set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles fires this month, a new study by…
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Jack Dorsey is back with Goose, a new, ultra simple open source AI agent building platform from his startup Block
Goose’s capabilities are enhanced through Block’s collaboration with Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company.Read More
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The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul
Meta is making sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, including abandoning third-party fact-checks in favor of X’s crowd-sourced “Community Notes” approach and loosening restrictions on topics like immigration and gender identity. Under the updated Hateful Conduct policy, for example, calling gay and trans people “mentally ill” is now allowed, while an explicit ban on…
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Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max challenges U.S. tech giants, reshapes enterprise AI
Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max AI model sets new performance benchmarks in enterprise-ready artificial intelligence, promising reduced infrastructure costs and improved efficiency for business applications.Read More
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ByteDance Introduces UI-TARS: A Native GUI Agent Model that Integrates Perception, Action, Reasoning, and Memory into a Scalable and Adaptive Framework
GUI agents seek to perform real tasks in digital environments by understanding and interacting with graphical interfaces such as buttons and text boxes. The biggest open challenges lie in enabling agents to process complex, evolving interfaces, plan effective actions, and execute precision tasks that include finding clickable areas or filling text boxes. These agents also…
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Boom’s supersonic test plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 test plane broke the sound barrier three times during its twelfth test flight. Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype test plane, the XB-1, broke the sound barrier today three times during its twelfth flight. The XB-1 is a smaller-scale demonstration version of the…