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Cancer rates among those aged 15 to 49 have increased by 10 percent since 2000
even as they have fallen among older people.
Young women are more affected than men.
From ages 15 through 49, women have a cancer rate that is 83 percent higher than men in the same age range.

What researchers suspect may be fueling cancer among millennials
Studies suggest modern life may be fueling the rise of cancer in younger adults, with factors like ultra-processed foods and chemicals under scrutiny.

GitHub outlines plans to secure npm following multiple supply-chain attacks, including deprecating legacy classic tokens and migrating users to FIDO-based 2FA (Xavier René-Corail/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-securi…

Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain
GitHub is strengthening npm's security with stricter authentication, granular tokens, and enhanced trusted publishing.

"Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Animals

Shapiro rebukes Mamdani for failing to condemn 'blatantly antisemitic' extremists (Jewish Insider)
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/07/josh-shapiro-slams-zohran-mamdani-anitsemitism-pennsylvania-governor-new-york-city-mayor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p169#a250723p169

"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. [...] In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
"Unlike this mental outsourc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

A similar trend is reported in Italy. Is violent crime becoming more violent and international? Is "someone" (a state actor perhaps?) flooding the black market with weapons?
Overall violent crime has been falling for decades pretty much everywhere in Europe so it's interesting to see these trends

I was feeling pretty drained last night and wasn't sure if I should bike to work today. My knee was really bugging me going up steps (more than usual) and I decided I would wait til morning to decide, based on how I felt.
I felt totally fine this morning. Reset! I think it's because I walked nearly 5 miles yesterday, and also spent a lot of time on the floor fixing a laser cutter.

A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/mar

Investors warn AI FOMO could be fueling a risky bubble in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic
As AI valuations soar into the hundreds of billions, a parallel market of temporary financial shells is proliferating to meet investor FOMO, and many investors are starting to sound the alarm bells that it portends a bubble in the AI gold rush

Canada's financial crime watchdog fines crypto exchange Cryptomus a record ~$126M for infractions including failing to flag suspicious transactions (Canadian Press)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cryptomus-fined-177-million-fintrac-9.6948338

Crypto exchange Cryptomus fined record $177M by Canada's financial crime watchdog | CBC News
A cryptocurrency exchange has been slapped with a fine of almost $177 million — the largest-ever penalty by Canada's financial intelligence agency — for infractions including failing to flag more than 1,000 transactions with suspected links to criminal activity.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to a center in the Florida Everglades,
and that much of the facility be dismantled.
The ruling rebuked the state and federal governments for failing to consider potential environmental harms before building the facility, known as Alligator Alcatraz.
The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees
and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and…

Judge Orders ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center in Florida to Shut Down for Now
A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades.