This farm raised thousands of pigs for slaughter. Now it’s growing mushrooms instead
The U.S. gets nearly a third of its pork from Iowa. One family is making the switch from pigs to more sustainable specialty mushrooms and trying to show other pig farmers how they did it. (Image credit: Madeleine Charis King)Continue Reading
Tropical Storm Odalys off Mexico’s coast may become a hurricane this week
Tropical Storm Odalys has formed in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by Monday. Meanwhile, a new tropical storm named Fay has formed in the northern Atlantic but does not appear to pose a threat to land.Continue Reading
Fave Five: Queer Political Fantasy
The Kingdom Trilogy by Bethany Jacobs The Tithenai Chronicles by Foz Meadows The Councillor by E.J. Beaton The Revenant of Surolifia by Florence Chien A Snake Among Swans by Hannah Kaner Bonus: Coming in November, check out An Embodiment of Souls by Julia Laurel, Read MoreContinue Reading
Gates Foundation launches coalition to build more representative language data sets for AI
NEW YORK (AP) — The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages. The partners — 60 in total, according to Monday’s announcement — include frontier AI labs, corporations, philanthropies and others already working toContinue Reading
iPhone users may get up to $95 in settlement over Siri AI claims
The claim process has opened for a massive settlement involving select iPhones., The claim process has opened for a massive settlement involving select iPhones., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Antonio Guterres: Can the UN still meet today’s global crises?
Al Jazeera’s James Bays sits down with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres., On the Record In this episode of On the Record, Al Jazeera’s James Bays sits down with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, ahead of his final UN General Assembly before stepping down in December 2026. They discuss theContinue Reading
US threatens to ground Iranian airlines worldwide from Wednesday
Treasury Secretary says airports and companies servicing Iranian carriers risk being cut off from the US dollar system., Scott Bessent says airports and companies servicing Iranian carriers risk being cut off from the US dollar system. United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Iranian airlines could effectively be shut outContinue Reading
AI/ML STIG Lecture Series, 28 Sept 2026
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Family searching for man shot during ICE encounter in Austin, Texas: Attorney
The attorney for a man shot and injured during an encounter involving ICE officers in Austin says his family is still trying to locate him. Kate Lincoln-Goldfish tells “Morning in America” that she and Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s family have checked the ICE detainee locator system but have not foundContinue Reading
Portainer Cuts the Cord Between Its Free and Paid Editions
Portainer’s Community Edition has been open source for a decade now, and that run has now hit a wall. Portainer 3.0, the upcoming ground-up rebuild of the platform around Kubernetes, will not be the base for CE. This was announced by the company’s CEO, Neil Cresswell, who says that CEContinue Reading
Garuda Linux Begins Nixification By Promoting Its Sybsystem
Garuda Linux has started nudging its userbase toward Nix. The distro’s maintainers have just renamed the Garuda Nix Subsystem to Garuda Nix , and you will find that the move is more nuanced than something purely cosmetic. What used to be a side project for dual-booting NixOS is now alsoContinue Reading
Presley Gerber, Model and Son of Cindy Crawford, Dies at 27
Hollywood is mourning the loss of Presley Gerber, the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber. The 27-year-old died Sunday at a rehab facility, according to the LA County medical examiner. Gerber, who had followed in his famous mother’s footsteps working as a model since he was aContinue Reading
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