This week's Living on Earth, PRI's environmental news and information program. Full transcript with streaming and downloadable audio available.

CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.

Palantir took Epstein’s money, Thiel’s backing, and Trump’s blessing to build an AI war machine. If Gaza is the testing ground, America’s next. Are we ready to fight back?

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My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs. An iPhone 15 Pro runs the same code perfectly. A MacBook Pro also runs the same code perfectly. The tensor outputs on the 16 show numerical values an order of magnitude wrong. I suspect…

A lightweight alternative to Clawdbot / OpenClaw that runs in Apple containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic's Agents SDK - ...

New research suggests that consistent aerobic exercise can help keep your brain biologically younger. Adults who exercised regularly for a year showed brains that appeared nearly a year younger than those who didn’t change their habits. The study focused…

The director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) recently declassified the existence of JUMPSEAT: the United States’ first-generation, highly elliptical orbit (HEO) signals-collection

The program helped 94% of participants secure housing while building financial literacy skills that could break the cycle of homelessness.

A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years.

Their announcem...

Through a controlled evaluation of 180 agent configurations, we derive the first quantitative scaling principles for AI agent systems, revealing that multi-agent coordination dramatically improves performance on parallelizable tasks but degrades it on sequential…

A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.

If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!

A beautiful, shareable bookshelf to track your reading journey.

Global Entry and PreCheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

It can happen to anyone.