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Treasury proposes hiring private debt collectors for defaulted student loans after six-year pause

health

Oura to pay $625 million for Counsel Health without a reported clinical trial

security

Git Patches CVE-2026-111760 Allowing Code Execution During Recursive Clones

security

Microsoft Lab Plants Agent Backdoors by Editing Fewer Than 10 Neurons

science

Preprint: Harvey and Katrina may have lengthened the day by about 2 microseconds — briefly

fringe

Microsoft’s Filing Describes AI That Rewrites Live Speech and Redraws the Lips

health

In 64 memory-clinic recordings, non-drug dementia offers were declined 54% of the time, versus 19% for medication

technology

Binance: $6.34 billion targeted, $2.85 billion frozen or intercepted, net outflow unstated

finance

Priority boarding fee buys queue position, not overhead-bin space

technology

2026 Global Carbon Budget records 38.2 Gt fossil CO2, 0.4% below 2025

science

Simulating Muscle Fatigue in Real Time Could Transform Workplace Injury Prevention

fringe

Failed US-Iran Talks Risk Summer Oil Shock Hitting Everyday Gas Prices

security

US Strikes Near Hormuz Expose Critical Oil Chokepoint Vulnerability, Threatening Global Energy Costs

technology

Stanford Data Signals AI Erosion of Entry-Level Hiring Pipeline

finance

Strait of Hormuz Disruptions: Tracing US-Iran Strikes Through Oil Supply Chains to Household Energy Bills

health

RSV Maternal Vaccine Cuts Infant Hospitalizations in Real World, Yet Insurance Barriers Risk Widening Racial Gaps This Season

finance

US-Iran Strikes Ripple Through Energy Markets, Testing Global Supply Chains

fringe

Why Your Grocery Bill Is Set to Explode: War, Fertilizer Shortages, and Super El Niño Converge on Food Prices

technology

Uber COO Flags AI Token Costs Outpacing Feature Gains, Slowing Hiring

security

OnlyFans Breach Exposes 340M Records: A Gateway for State Surveillance and Dark-Web Power Shifts

finance

France's Crypto Wrench Attacks Expose Regulatory Data Vulnerabilities

science

LLM Simulations Expose NATO Fracture Lines: Greenland as AI Stress Test Reveals Rare Paths to Peaceful Acquisition

fringe

Trump Backs Permanent Daylight Saving Time: Ending Biannual Clock Changes to Stabilize Sleep, Commutes, and Household Energy Bills

technology

YouGov Poll Reveals 70% American Opposition to AI Speed

science

Epic Dreaming's Hidden Toll: When Vivid Nights Fuel Daytime Collapse

health

Beyond the Hype: Seed Oils and Ultraprocessed Foods as Drivers of Early-Onset Colon Cancer Inflammation

technology

Google Clarifies Anti-Spam Policies for Generative AI Features

finance

FOMC Dissent Patterns Reveal Policy Fractures as Geopolitical Energy Shocks Test Committee Consensus

health

Wastewater as Sentinel: How Hospital Sewage Surveillance Could Reshape the Fight Against Candida auris

fringe

Zuckerberg's AI Admission: Meta's Tracking of Employees to Train Their Replacements Exposes the Accelerating White-Collar Purge

science

Hyrax Steps Up to Tame the Coming Flood of Astronomical Data from Rubin, Roman, and Euclid