🚀 Arizona indicts prediction market Kalshi for running illegal gambling operation
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Arizona’s attorney general filed criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi, accusing it of operating a gambling business without a license and offering illegal wagers on elections. “Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction market,’ but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law,” Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement on Tuesday. While Arizona’s case is the first time criminal charges have been brought against the company...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Arizona’s attorney general filed criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi, accusing it of operating a gambling business without a license and offering illegal wagers on elections. “Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction market,’ but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law,” Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement on Tuesday. While Arizona’s case is the first time criminal charges have been brought against the company...
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🚀 Trump's plan to shut down weather and climate center triggers lawsuit
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav On Monday, a consortium that oversees the US’s premier atmospheric research center announced it was suing the Trump administration over plans to shut it down. The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, provides a home for interdisciplinary and collaborative research focused on anything atmospheric. Many of the country’s leading academic researchers in the field have spent time working there or have been involved in collaborations that involve NCAR. But all of that is dependent upon government support for the research done there a...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav On Monday, a consortium that oversees the US’s premier atmospheric research center announced it was suing the Trump administration over plans to shut it down. The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, provides a home for interdisciplinary and collaborative research focused on anything atmospheric. Many of the country’s leading academic researchers in the field have spent time working there or have been involved in collaborations that involve NCAR. But all of that is dependent upon government support for the research done there a...
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🚀 FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The Food and Drug Administration has linked cheddar cheese made from raw (unpasteurized) milk to a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli . But the cheese’s maker, Raw Farm, is rejecting the regulator’s findings and refusing to voluntarily recall its cheese. In an outbreak investigation notice, the FDA said seven cases have been identified in three states: California (five cases), Florida (one case), and Texas (one case). Of the seven cases, two required hospitalization. Four of the seven cases were in children age 3 or younger...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The Food and Drug Administration has linked cheddar cheese made from raw (unpasteurized) milk to a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli . But the cheese’s maker, Raw Farm, is rejecting the regulator’s findings and refusing to voluntarily recall its cheese. In an outbreak investigation notice, the FDA said seven cases have been identified in three states: California (five cases), Florida (one case), and Texas (one case). Of the seven cases, two required hospitalization. Four of the seven cases were in children age 3 or younger...
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🚀 Mistral AI Releases Forge
Mistral Forge Mistral Forge Build your own frontier models Today, we’re introducing Forge , a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge . Most AI models available today are trained primarily on publicly available data. They are designed to perform well across a broad range of tasks. But enterprises operate using internal knowledge: engineering standards, compliance policies, codebases, operational processes, and years of institutional decisions. Forge bridges the gap between generic AI and enterprise-specific needs. Instead of relying on broad, public data, organizations can train models that understand their internal context embedd...
Mistral Forge Mistral Forge Build your own frontier models Today, we’re introducing Forge , a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge . Most AI models available today are trained primarily on publicly available data. They are designed to perform well across a broad range of tasks. But enterprises operate using internal knowledge: engineering standards, compliance policies, codebases, operational processes, and years of institutional decisions. Forge bridges the gap between generic AI and enterprise-specific needs. Instead of relying on broad, public data, organizations can train models that understand their internal context embedd...
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🚀 Here's BMW's first all-electric 3 series, the 2027 i3
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the iX3 and be briefed on the i3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MALAGA, Spain—Late last year, we got our first chance to drive the new BMW iX3 . An all-electric version of one of BMW’s best-sellers, the electric SUV is arguably the new head of the class in the competitive premium SUV EV segment, with good driving dynamics and an extremely efficient electric powertrain. The next new BMW EVs to use the company’s Neue Klasse platform...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the iX3 and be briefed on the i3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MALAGA, Spain—Late last year, we got our first chance to drive the new BMW iX3 . An all-electric version of one of BMW’s best-sellers, the electric SUV is arguably the new head of the class in the competitive premium SUV EV segment, with good driving dynamics and an extremely efficient electric powertrain. The next new BMW EVs to use the company’s Neue Klasse platform...
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🚀 How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly
Recently, Eon Systems PBC co-founder and founding advisor Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross shared some of the work that we’ve been doing on X , and we were pleasantly surprised at how much attention it’s received. This embodied fly is still very much a work-in-progress, and a first step towards showing how an embodied brain would control a virtual body. We wanted to discuss here how the virtual fly works, and its limitations. This post will be necessarily quite technical. First, we want to acknowledge how much this project depends on the broader neuroscience community. Our work builds directly on the adult fly connectome (Dorkenwald et al., 2024), on connectome-constrained brain models ( Lappal...
Recently, Eon Systems PBC co-founder and founding advisor Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross shared some of the work that we’ve been doing on X , and we were pleasantly surprised at how much attention it’s received. This embodied fly is still very much a work-in-progress, and a first step towards showing how an embodied brain would control a virtual body. We wanted to discuss here how the virtual fly works, and its limitations. This post will be necessarily quite technical. First, we want to acknowledge how much this project depends on the broader neuroscience community. Our work builds directly on the adult fly connectome (Dorkenwald et al., 2024), on connectome-constrained brain models ( Lappal...
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🚀 After Discord fiasco, age-check tech promises privacy by running locally. Does it work?
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Last month, Discord quickly backpedaled after it announced that an age-verification system would roll out globally. Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s age-check partners . Suddenly, these often-overlooked players in the “age-assurance” ecosystem had to defend their tech or risk losing major contracts. The whole saga shone a harsh spotlight on the current problems with age-verification tech—and on the technical solutions aiming to make the whole process both secure ...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Last month, Discord quickly backpedaled after it announced that an age-verification system would roll out globally. Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s age-check partners . Suddenly, these often-overlooked players in the “age-assurance” ecosystem had to defend their tech or risk losing major contracts. The whole saga shone a harsh spotlight on the current problems with age-verification tech—and on the technical solutions aiming to make the whole process both secure ...
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🚀 Peter faces a new life cycle in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav We’ve got an official trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day , the follow-up to 2021’s No Way Home that is purportedly intended to launch a fresh trilogy of films with Tom Holland in the title role. Sony Pictures opted for a unique approach to building anticipation for the trailer, releasing snippets of footage throughout the day yesterday via the social media accounts of influencers and fans around the world. To which we can only say: Just stop already. Release the dang trailer and be done with it. A movie trailer should be able to stand on ...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav We’ve got an official trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day , the follow-up to 2021’s No Way Home that is purportedly intended to launch a fresh trilogy of films with Tom Holland in the title role. Sony Pictures opted for a unique approach to building anticipation for the trailer, releasing snippets of footage throughout the day yesterday via the social media accounts of influencers and fans around the world. To which we can only say: Just stop already. Release the dang trailer and be done with it. A movie trailer should be able to stand on ...
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🚀 Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. Or, as one member of the team put it: “The package is a pile of shit.” For years, reviewers said, Microsoft had tried and failed to fully explain how it ...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. Or, as one member of the team put it: “The package is a pile of shit.” For years, reviewers said, Microsoft had tried and failed to fully explain how it ...
🚀 Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy's site-blocking law
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Cloudflare said it has appealed a fine issued by Italy over the company’s refusal to block access to websites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service. The appeal is the latest step in Cloudflare’s fight against Italy’s Piracy Shield law. Piracy Shield is “a misguided Italian regulatory scheme designed to protect large rightsholder interests at the expense of the broader Internet,” Cloudflare said in a blog post this week. “After Cloudflare resisted registering for Piracy Shield and challenged it in court, the Italian communications regulator, AGC...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Cloudflare said it has appealed a fine issued by Italy over the company’s refusal to block access to websites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service. The appeal is the latest step in Cloudflare’s fight against Italy’s Piracy Shield law. Piracy Shield is “a misguided Italian regulatory scheme designed to protect large rightsholder interests at the expense of the broader Internet,” Cloudflare said in a blog post this week. “After Cloudflare resisted registering for Piracy Shield and challenged it in court, the Italian communications regulator, AGC...
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🚀 A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a “safe” gathering point near our planet. The company, TransAstra, said Wednesday that an unnamed customer has agreed to fund a study of its proposed “New Moon” mission to capture and relocate an asteroid approximately the size of a house, with a mass of about 100 metric tons. “We envision it becoming a base for robotic research and development on m...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a “safe” gathering point near our planet. The company, TransAstra, said Wednesday that an unnamed customer has agreed to fund a study of its proposed “New Moon” mission to capture and relocate an asteroid approximately the size of a house, with a mass of about 100 metric tons. “We envision it becoming a base for robotic research and development on m...
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🚀 Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law
The European Union may soon ban nudify apps after Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok emerged as a prime example of the dangers of an AI platform failing to block outputs that sexualized images of real people, including children . In a joint press release , the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees confirmed that lawmakers voted 101–9 (with 8 abstentions) to simplify the Artificial Intelligence Act and “propose bans on AI ‘nudifier’ systems.” The vote came after the European Commission concluded earlier this yea...
The European Union may soon ban nudify apps after Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok emerged as a prime example of the dangers of an AI platform failing to block outputs that sexualized images of real people, including children . In a joint press release , the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees confirmed that lawmakers voted 101–9 (with 8 abstentions) to simplify the Artificial Intelligence Act and “propose bans on AI ‘nudifier’ systems.” The vote came after the European Commission concluded earlier this yea...
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🚀 Patreon CEO calls AI companies' fair use argument 'bogus,' says creators should be paid
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says he’s not anti-AI. He can’t be. “I run a frickin’ tech company,” he told the audience at the SXSW conference in Austin this week. Still, the founder of the creator platform has limits. Conte doesn’t think AI companies should be able to train their models on the work of creators without compensation, calling their decision to dub this “fair use” a “bogus” argument. Conte’s SXSW talk positioned AI as another moment within the ongoing cycle of disruption that creators have been through many times before in the internet age. Like the transition from buying music on iTunes to streaming, or shifting video to the vertical format favored by TikTok,...
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says he’s not anti-AI. He can’t be. “I run a frickin’ tech company,” he told the audience at the SXSW conference in Austin this week. Still, the founder of the creator platform has limits. Conte doesn’t think AI companies should be able to train their models on the work of creators without compensation, calling their decision to dub this “fair use” a “bogus” argument. Conte’s SXSW talk positioned AI as another moment within the ongoing cycle of disruption that creators have been through many times before in the internet age. Like the transition from buying music on iTunes to streaming, or shifting video to the vertical format favored by TikTok,...
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🚀 The CEO of Patreon blasts AI companies for the ‘bogus excuse’ they’re using to not pay artists
Patreon’s CEO Jack Conte is tired of watching AI companies strike deals with huge corporations like Disney while ignoring the myriad of smaller creators who contribute to their models. Recommended Video Speaking at the South by Southwest conference this week, Conte, whose company allows people to pay their favorite creators directly, argued AI companies should view creators’ work in the same way it views that of Disney, Conde Nast, or Warner Music, aiming to reach agreements with them rather than use their content without permission. He attacked the legal doctrine of “ fair use ,” which allows someone to use copyrighted material without permission or payment depending on the purpo...
Patreon’s CEO Jack Conte is tired of watching AI companies strike deals with huge corporations like Disney while ignoring the myriad of smaller creators who contribute to their models. Recommended Video Speaking at the South by Southwest conference this week, Conte, whose company allows people to pay their favorite creators directly, argued AI companies should view creators’ work in the same way it views that of Disney, Conde Nast, or Warner Music, aiming to reach agreements with them rather than use their content without permission. He attacked the legal doctrine of “ fair use ,” which allows someone to use copyrighted material without permission or payment depending on the purpo...
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Looking to launch a powerful Telegram file search bot? Here’s a next-level solution:
⚡ Blazing Fast (Golang Core)
Engineered in Golang for maximum performance, low latency, and high concurrency — handles heavy traffic without breaking.
🔎 Advanced Search System
Not just basic search — users can filter by:
• Language 🎬
• Quality (480p / 720p / 1080p / 4K)
• Release Year 📅
• Series / Episodes 📺
• And more…
🧠 Smart Indexing & Results
Delivers accurate, clean, and fast results — no clutter, no useless files.
📦 All Premium Bot Features Included
• Auto indexing
• Inline search
• File caching
• Force join support
• Admin controls
• Broadcast system
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🔥 Why this over others?
Most clones are slow, messy, and limited. This is optimized, scalable, and actually usable at high load.
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🚀 Family rejects $26M offer to turn farmland into data center
Entertainment Family rejects $26M offer to turn farmland into data center by James Busby Published: Mar 24, 2026, 13:35 Save for later Save for later Pexels Get Notifications for Entertainment News A Northern Kentucky family has turned down a $26 million offer to sell off part of their farmland, refusing to let generations of agricultural land be replaced by a data center. The story has gained traction online after the landowners made it clear that no payout could outweigh what the farm represents to their family and the wider food supply. An unnamed company approached them in April about purchasing roughly half of their 1,200-acre property near Maysville for a proposed data center projec...
Entertainment Family rejects $26M offer to turn farmland into data center by James Busby Published: Mar 24, 2026, 13:35 Save for later Save for later Pexels Get Notifications for Entertainment News A Northern Kentucky family has turned down a $26 million offer to sell off part of their farmland, refusing to let generations of agricultural land be replaced by a data center. The story has gained traction online after the landowners made it clear that no payout could outweigh what the farm represents to their family and the wider food supply. An unnamed company approached them in April about purchasing roughly half of their 1,200-acre property near Maysville for a proposed data center projec...
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🚀 Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
nanobrew — the fastest macOS package manager ⚡ "> nanobrew The fastest macOS package manager. Written in Zig . $ curl -fsSL https://nanobrew.trilok.ai/install | bash copy Then restart your terminal or run the export command it prints. 3.5ms warm install time 7,000x faster than Homebrew · faster than echo Speed Apple Silicon, macOS 15, same network. Cold = fresh download. Warm = cached in store. tree / 0 deps, cold brew 8.99s nb 1.19s 7.6x faster wget / 6 deps, cold brew 16.84s nb 11.26s 1.5x faster ffmpeg / 11 deps, warm brew ~24.5s nb 3.5ms 7,000x faster Quick start $ nb install jq ==> Resolving dependencies... 38ms ==> Installing 1 package(s): jq 1.7.1 ==> Downloa...
nanobrew — the fastest macOS package manager ⚡ "> nanobrew The fastest macOS package manager. Written in Zig . $ curl -fsSL https://nanobrew.trilok.ai/install | bash copy Then restart your terminal or run the export command it prints. 3.5ms warm install time 7,000x faster than Homebrew · faster than echo Speed Apple Silicon, macOS 15, same network. Cold = fresh download. Warm = cached in store. tree / 0 deps, cold brew 8.99s nb 1.19s 7.6x faster wget / 6 deps, cold brew 16.84s nb 11.26s 1.5x faster ffmpeg / 11 deps, warm brew ~24.5s nb 3.5ms 7,000x faster Quick start $ nb install jq ==> Resolving dependencies... 38ms ==> Installing 1 package(s): jq 1.7.1 ==> Downloa...
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🚀 Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT - CyberNetSec.io Print Home Analysis Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT Articles Novel Campaign Abuses Obsidian Note-Taking App to Target Finance and Crypto Professionals with PHANTOMPULSE RAT Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT HIGH April 16, 2026 5m read Malware Threat Actor Phishing Related Entities Threat Actors REF6598 Products & Tech Obsidian PowerShell Telegram Other PHANTOMPULSE PHANTOMPULL LinkedIn MITRE ATT&CK Techniques T1566.002 Initial Access Spearphishing Link T1204.002 Execution Malicious F...
Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT - CyberNetSec.io Print Home Analysis Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT Articles Novel Campaign Abuses Obsidian Note-Taking App to Target Finance and Crypto Professionals with PHANTOMPULSE RAT Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT HIGH April 16, 2026 5m read Malware Threat Actor Phishing Related Entities Threat Actors REF6598 Products & Tech Obsidian PowerShell Telegram Other PHANTOMPULSE PHANTOMPULL LinkedIn MITRE ATT&CK Techniques T1566.002 Initial Access Spearphishing Link T1204.002 Execution Malicious F...
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🚀 Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did 13 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Amanda Ruggeri Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images In ancient times, parents probably didn't suffer as much from feeling sleep deprived, leading some scientists to reconsider guidelines for today's new parents to get some shut-eye. How exhausting is it to be a parent? When one brave soul posed this to a Reddit parenting forum, more than 400 answers flooded in . "Extremely. It's extremely exhausting and it is literally CONSTANT," wrote one respondent, the sentiment echoed by hundreds of others. There are many reasons why parents feel so bone-crushingly tired today – and no...
Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did 13 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Amanda Ruggeri Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images In ancient times, parents probably didn't suffer as much from feeling sleep deprived, leading some scientists to reconsider guidelines for today's new parents to get some shut-eye. How exhausting is it to be a parent? When one brave soul posed this to a Reddit parenting forum, more than 400 answers flooded in . "Extremely. It's extremely exhausting and it is literally CONSTANT," wrote one respondent, the sentiment echoed by hundreds of others. There are many reasons why parents feel so bone-crushingly tired today – and no...