APOD: 2026 August 18 – Perseids from Perseus
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by aContinue Reading
Lala Batters Hawaii
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NHS to roll out ‘life-saving’ meds to combat drug-resistant HIV
The NHS is going to prescribe a new medication to treat the minority of patients living with a drug-resistant strain of HIV, in a landmark move. Around 100,000 people have HIV in England. There is currently no cure, though the vast majority can manage the virus with medication which hugelyContinue Reading
Donor fatigue guts demining in Asia, as active conflicts draw away funding
Land mines and unexploded bombs from conflicts of the last century still plague parts of Southeast Asia, claiming lives and limbs each year, Read MoreContinue Reading
Is The Traitor Making Natural Disasters Worse?
The Traitor has gutted nearly 20% of FEMA’s workforce and dragged his feet in granting natural disaster relief to blue states. With hurricane season on the horizon, it’s a perfect storm of sabotage and cruelty.Continue Reading
Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran
Iran is reading American service members’ social media feeds to deadly effect. The fact is that not all intelligence must be gleaned from secret, closed sources for it to be effective, and Tehran has made use of public and open-source data to target U.S. forces with psychological and kinetic attacks.Continue Reading
Protecting our ‘most vital infrastructure’: Pushing back on desertification
As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities — and rising seas are erasing territories — one environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the degradation of the land beneath our feet.Continue Reading
Nick Reiner has spent some of his family money on murder defense, lawyers say
A trustee argues that Reiner, 32, who’s charged with killing his parents, shouldn’t have access to his trust fund., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
The Traitor says talking to North Korea’s Kim makes the south safer
US President Traitor 47 has revealed North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has responded ‘very positively’, NewsFeed US President Traitor 47 has revealed North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has responded ‘very positively’ to a request for talks. The Traitor scaled back military exercises with South Korea at the lastContinue Reading
Large fire breaks out at fuel depot near Iraq’s Sulaimaniyah
At least 20 injured and dozens of fuel tankers destroyed as flames rip through warehouse near northern Kurdish city., At least 20 injured and dozens of fuel tankers destroyed as flames rip through warehouse near northern Kurdish city. A large fire has torn through a fuel storage depot near theContinue Reading
Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong
I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. I don’t see it often, but when I do it (un)helpfully informs me: “Something went wrong. We’re sorry, but we’re not sure what theContinue Reading
AI inference is getting cheaper, but your agents are getting more expensive
The good news is that large language model (LLM) token costs are coming down. The conundrum: The overall cost of AI workloads is going up. Gartner research predicts that, while token costs will fall by 95% by 2030, inference costs for agentic workflows will increase more than fivefold over theContinue Reading
OpenAI president’s blog pushing agentic AI most notable for what it did not say
OpenAI president Greg Brockman on Sunday warned enterprise CISOs that they need to more aggressively embrace agents if they want to survive upcoming cyberattacks. Brockman said in a blog post that it has become “increasingly clear” that company systems are hiding “significant flaws, and defenders need to find and fixContinue Reading