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Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can detect a surprisingly wide range of chemical signals produced during digestion, including byproducts of fats, proteins, sugars, and even DNA. TheseContinue Reading

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Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.19, moving legacy AMD Radeon GPUs to the modern  amdgpu  driver and enabling larger block sizes in ext4 for improved storage performance. The AMD driver switch brings native Vulkan support to the Radeon R9 290 and HD 7000 series GPUs, while the ext4 filesystem breaksContinue Reading

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With the Super Bowl taking place today (Sunday 8 February) we’re looking back at Charlie Puth’s response to ‘queerbaiting’ accusations. The “We Don’t Talk Anymore” singer, 34, is performing the national anthem at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California with other performances from Brandi Carlile, Coco Jones, Green Day,Continue Reading

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Exclusive Abu Dhabi: the scaffolding beneath peace—and the house nobody is building. Prisoners come home. The hard questions don’t even have a table yet. Reuters: US pushes Ukraine toward a March peace deal with Russia and unrealistic May elections. The Witkoff-Kushner negotiating team has pressed Kyiv to move fast, warningContinue Reading

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Ukrainian defense forces cleared the village of Ternuvate in northeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast after Russia falsely claimed to have captured it in the last days of January, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation reported on 8 February. The operation exposed another failed Russian infiltration attempt and a disinformation campaign that reportedly fellContinue Reading

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Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, Texas reporter Dylan Baddour and data journalist Peter Aldhous as they discuss ICN’s new investigation into how the fracking boom put an oil field in the Guadalupe River floodplain. By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous An epic flood a generation agoContinue Reading