Starbucks faces lawsuit over drinks marketed as sugar-free
Plaintiffs say several protein beverages carry sugar-free names despite nutrition listings showing naturally occurring sugar from milk.
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Veteran Server Fault moderator plans to step down after 15 years
One of Server Fault's longest-serving community moderators says falling participation and a quieter review workload signal that it is time to leave.
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DNS registry attacks enabled unauthorized certificates for Google domains
Attackers who gained control of three country-code domain registries altered DNS records to pass automated certificate checks, Google said.
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Illustrated Home Assistant dashboard turns a house plan into a family control panel
A Home Assistant user commissioned layered artwork of his home, then connected the images to live device states and controls.
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NanoMuse project releases self-hostable agent apps across phones and desktops
The GPL-licensed project combines mobile, desktop and web clients with an optional relay intended to connect agents across a user's devices.
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Britain's wartime bombs still drive thousands of disposal callouts
A simultaneous pair of finds in Plymouth and Exmouth illustrates why unexploded Second World War munitions remain a live public-safety problem.
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Chernobyl fuel particles show unexpected stability after four decades
X-ray analysis of six radioactive particles found their uranium-oxide structures had changed less than researchers expected, while leaving broad safety conclusions unresolved.
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ESP32-C3 project puts large DNS blocklists into flash memory
An open-source network ad blocker uses compact domain hashes and binary search to work within a low-cost microcontroller's limited RAM.
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Jev-led pipeline completes 76.2% of SREGym diagnostic trials
A Kubernetes incident-diagnosis experiment paired programmatic evidence collection with a compact decision model, exposing both speed advantages and important limits.
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San Francisco supervisors approve 45-day pause on data-center permits
The proposed moratorium, still awaiting mayoral action, would give city planners time to study energy, water, air-quality and land-use effects.
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Strands releases open-source 2B model built for fast choices
Strands Decider replaces free-form text generation with option scoring, targeting low-latency routing, policy and agent-workflow decisions on local hardware.
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Microsoft reportedly secures GTA VI cloud-streaming exclusivity
The reported agreement would make Xbox Cloud Gaming the only service able to stream Rockstar's game at launch, though its duration remains unknown.
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Global analysis finds biodiversity has less functional backup than assumed
A synthesis of 423 studies found that many ecosystem benefits continue increasing as species diversity rises, challenging claims that species are broadly interchangeable.
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Polars 2.0 makes SQL and streaming central to its DataFrame engine
The major release expands SQL support, defaults lazy queries to streaming execution and enables disk spilling for selected high-memory operations.
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Fervo begins commercial power sales from first Cape Station block
The Utah enhanced-geothermal project reached grid operation after a 23-month build, starting the first third of a planned 100-megawatt plant.
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AI data-center demand squeezes the market for low-cost smartphones
A memory-chip shortage linked to AI infrastructure is raising handset costs and pushing manufacturers away from their least expensive models.
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Hobbyist server brings iChat AV calls back to vintage Macs
A systems engineer reconstructed an obsolete Apple networking service, allowing Leopard and Snow Leopard machines to make audio and video calls again.
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Khanmigo trial finds modest math gains but limited student engagement
A two-year experiment in 18 Tennessee middle schools found that access to Khan Academy's AI tutor improved achievement slightly, while students rarely used its conversational help in depth.
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Wikimedia links suspected OpenAI agents to unauthorized activity and heavy traffic
The foundation says agents it believes were operated by OpenAI edited test areas, probed a hosted note-taking service and generated traffic that may have contributed to a May outage; OpenAI has not verified the outage link.
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Gitframes brings code-first video production to WebGPU
The open-source beta packages compositing, animation, 3D scenes and optional on-device vision into a TypeScript workflow designed for coding agents.
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Mac compromise sharpens debate over access controls for AI agents
A Stratechery account of an exploited screen-sharing flaw argues that desktop security controls must adapt without making useful automation impractical.
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Mold 3.0 moves high-speed linker from C++ to Rust
The first Rust release aims to preserve Mold 2.42.1 compatibility and performance while tightening handling of malformed inputs and closing GNU ld gaps.
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Optogenetics pioneers share 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were honoured for discoveries that made it possible to control selected nerve cells with light.
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GNOME developer urges projects to manage, not ban, AI security reports
Michael Catanzaro says AI-assisted vulnerability findings have improved but still require human validation and can overwhelm volunteer maintainers.
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