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Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…

Apple building American-made AI servers ahead of schedule in new Houston facility, answering Trump call
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American-made artificial intelligence servers in the United States — a move that has the technology giant answering President Donald Trump’s call to on shore manufacturing.

🔄 Seeing double: Visual anagrams that rotate open doors for brain research
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Seeing double: Visual anagrams that rotate open doors for brain research
New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind.

https://www.angrymetalguy.com/angry-metal-guy-speaks-on-spotify/

PSA: there’s a recall on some Anker powerbanks, check if you have one of them
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Anker-Power-Banks-Recalled-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Manufactured-by-Anker-Innovations-1

XLQA: A Benchmark for Locale-Aware Multilingual Open-Domain Question Answering
Keon-Woo Roh, Yeong-Joon Ju, Seong-Whan Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16139 https://

XLQA: A Benchmark for Locale-Aware Multilingual Open-Domain Question Answering
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant progress in Open-domain question answering (ODQA), yet most evaluations focus on English and assume locale-invariant answers across languages. This assumption neglects the cultural and regional variations that affect question understanding and answer, leading to biased evaluation in multilingual benchmarks. To address these limitations, we introduce XLQA, a novel benchmark explicitly designed for locale-sensitive multilingual ODQA. XLQA contai…

Anger after ICE agents seize high school intern, 16, at Rhode Island court in mistaken identity error | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agents-anger-teen-rhode-island-court-b2870967.html

Region Saporischschja meldet 500 Angriffe binnen 24 Stunden
In der Region Saporischschja sind ukrainischen Angaben zufolge innerhalb von 24 Stunden rund 500 russische Angriffe verzeichnet worden. Wie der Gouverneur Ivan Fedorow auf der Plattform Telegram mitteilte, waren insgesamt 13 Ortschaften betroffen. Es gab demnach 327 Drohnenangriffe, 166 Artillerieangriffe, vier Luftangriffe und drei Angriff…
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A little request for @… : it would be great, when we type an answer to a post, to be able to see that post while we write.. #Tusky
Important edit: Actually this is already possible!! Just click the t…

🧲 We tested if a specialized magnetic powder could remove microplastics from drinking water: The answer is yes
https://theconversation.com/we-tested-if-a-specialised-magnetic-powder-could-remove-mi…

We tested if a specialised magnetic powder could remove microplastics from drinking water: the answer is yes
Researchers developed a new method to remove microplastics from water.

Syriens Präsident fordert Ende israelischer Angriffe auf sein Land
Syriens Präsident Ahmad al-Scharaa hat in seiner ersten Rede vor der UN-Vollversammlung ein Ende israelischer Angriffe auf sein Land gefordert. Diese drohten, zu "neuen Krisen und Kämpfen in unserer Region" zu führen, sagte Al-Scharaa am Mittwoch in New York. Zugleich versicherte er mit Blick auf Konflikte zwischen verschiedenen Konfessionen in seinem Land, fü…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Rubio spricht mit Lawrow in New York ++
US-Außenminister Rubio hat bei einem Gespräch mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen ein Ende des Blutvergießens gefordert. Bei einem russischen Raketenangriff auf ein Ausbildungszentrum des ukrainischen Heeres hat es nach Militärangaben Opfer gegeben.