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Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/bat-virus-fragments-turn-up-in-fertilizer-sold-in-thai-markets-study-finds/

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds
Researchers have found the first genetic evidence of bat-borne viruses within commercially sold bat guano fertilizer in Thailand. However, the viral strains the team detected are not known to infect humans. Moreover, since the researchers only identified fragments of viral RNA and did not isolate live, intact viruses, they could not confirm if the genetic […]

The reported success of an experimental drug that uses messenger RNA to deliver personalized skin cancer vaccines could herald a wave of new treatments that harness the potent technology for a range of cancers, researchers say.

Drugmakers Moderna and Merck this summer announced that a cancer vaccine,
intismeran autogene,
had succeeded in a Phase 3 clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma,
a result experts celebrated as a breakthrough for mRNA-based canc…

A melanoma vaccine was hailed as a breakthrough. Which cancers are next?
Trials investigating mRNA vaccines for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases are already underway.

If models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 are getting close to what Anthropic, OpenAI and Google can offer, what is their competitive advantage? Isn't then the only important "resource" compute and who can use it for what? (because those large chinese models also ask a large inference infrastructure). Is there enough inference hardware available for companies to run those models local? (probably not)
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Even putting aside the context, I still run into folks that don't 'get' how important it was to hear Steve Rogers say, "Avengers... assemble."
At that moment in the theater of the 4th movie, guys of my generation around the world burst into tears.
I'm not joking.
#avengers #genx

Cowboys glad to welcome Von Miller's production and leadership to inexperience group of edge rushers https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-glad-to-welcome-von-millers-production-and-leadership-t…

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

This incite in to what my ubuntu system is doing that would have taken hours of time to research if I ever could have learned it at all had I not used an LLM. I'll continue to caveat that LLMs have many many things about them that are bad on multiple levels.
Using LLMs to fix system problems is doing something I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
#ai

Gabriel: Nicht die Brandmauer sei das Problem der #SPD, sondern ein „großes Missverständnis darüber, was ein Sozialstaat ist”.
Richtig: Nicht-Kooperation ist eine Haltung, noch keine Strategie. „Inhaltlich stellen” heißt Parlament, Anträge, Abstimmungsverhalten – nicht Diskussion mit Funktionären, die keine führen wollen.
Falsch: Wer das Bürgergeld zum Verrat an Arbeitnehmern erklärt, bed…

Brandmauer-Debatte: Gabriel kritisiert SPD-Kurs beim Sozialstaat und bei Rente
Wie viel Sozialstaat braucht es? Ex-SPD-Parteivorsitzender Sigmar Gabriel fordert von den Sozialdemokraten einen neuen Ansatz bei der Rente. Was Gabriel außerdem zur Brandmauer sagt.

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

Q&A with Redwood Research Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt on AI R&D, RSI, whether human expert data is bottlenecking progress, token prices, alignment, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ryan-greenblatt