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Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills

Three years ago environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside California’s Chiquita Canyon Landfill. Few imagined the calamity that would follow. Somehow the landfill’s pollution control system introduced oxygen below, causing decades-old waste to rapidly decompose, generating intense heat and eventually widespread smoldering, federal and state environmental agencies say. The Read more…

By admin, 4 weeksAugust 10, 2026 ago

AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch

On July 22, a Google DeepMind engineer, Vidy Thatte, shared a snippet of a browser he built that treats every URL as a prompt and generates a site from scratch on his X account. Just a few days later, he shared a TestFlight link to let iPhone users try it Read more…

By admin, 4 weeksAugust 9, 2026 ago

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Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta’s Smart Glasses

With nearly 70% of the market, Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit. But after some users found ways to disable the light that warns people they’re being filmed, “the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability, as some are calling the gadget ‘pervert glasses…’” Some Read more…

By admin, 4 weeksAugust 9, 2026 ago

Leben (Life aka misc) NewsFlash

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. — Perlis’s Programming Proverb #58, SIGPLAN Notices, Sept. 1982

By admin, 4 weeks ago

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Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine

Researchers believe they’ve found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies. Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical monitoring. Participants quietly listened to the first bars of children’s tunes, then imagined the melodies of subsequent Read more…

By admin, 4 weeks ago

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New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human

If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent answering your call instead of a human voice. The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is currently testing out the new tool designed to reduce the volume of calls human dispatchers must handle, Read more…

By admin, 4 weeksAugust 9, 2026 ago

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More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems

In Georgia the Savannah Police Department terminated four sworn officers and two civilian employees following an internal investigation into misuse of the department’s Flock Safety License Plate Reader system. All six cases are also under independent criminal investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation… Investigators found that employees were running Read more…

By admin, 4 weeksAugust 8, 2026 ago