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Ancient Library puts 1,060 classical texts online with click-to-parse for every word

Ancient Library is a web-based reader for the classical canon that turns close reading of Greek and Latin into a point-and-click exercise. Clicking any word in

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Apple's App Store Rejects Astronomy App as 'Astrology,' Then Invents a Tarot Feature

Developer Terry Godier submitted Dark Hours, a polished native iOS app built around his astronomy website for casual stargazers. Apple's App Review rejected it

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Cyber Command Investigates Suicide Cluster Amid Surging Hacker Workloads

US Cyber Command is examining an abnormally high number of suicides among its personnel over a roughly month-long span this summer, according to government offi

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Denmark Mandates Oral Defenses for Take-Home Assignments to Curb AI Cheating

Denmark's Ministry of Education has made oral defenses mandatory for all written assignments completed at home by upper-secondary students, a measure aimed squa

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DOE's Genesis Initiative Opens a Shared Pipeline for Scientific AI Models

The Department of Energy has stood up the Genesis Open Models Initiative, a portal hosted by Argonne National Laboratory that solicits open contributions — data

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Fastmail adds EU data region — but won't promise your data never leaves it

Fastmail now lets customers choose the European Union as the primary home for their email, storing the live copy on company-owned servers co-located in Amsterda

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Google DeepMind open-sources WeatherNext, an AI that forecasts cyclones a day earlier

Google DeepMind and Google Research have published a Nature paper on WeatherNext, an AI model that predicts a tropical cyclone's track, intensity, and wind stru

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How Databricks and Peers Keep AI Coding Bills From Outrunning the Gains

Agentic coding tools have measurably boosted developer velocity at Databricks, but like most large-scale adopters the company hit a wall: spend that grows expon

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Movile Cave: Romania's sunless ecosystem, sealed 5.5M years, opened by a drill

Editor's note: this is a natural-science piece from Hacker News with no cybersecurity or technology angle, so it maps poorly onto our security taxonomy — flaggi

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NASA buys another year of science from its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe

Voyager 2, launched in 1977 and now roughly 142 astronomical units from the Sun, runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator whose plutonium decay yields ab

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New DNS convention lets a live domain quietly signal it's for sale

A newly minted informational standard, RFC 10023 (July 2026), reserves a `_for-sale` DNS leaf node and registers it with IANA so domain owners can advertise tha

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New Study Argues Life on Earth May Have Emerged Twice, Not Once

A paper in Science Advances proposes that the leap from non-living chemistry to living cells happened independently in the two deepest branches of life — bacter

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