December 11, 2025
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Repeal of EPA Hazard Conclusion Threatens Decades of Climate Progress: Act – The Bridge: Connecting Science and Policy

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September 4, 2025 AGU is deeply alarmed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reverse its long-standing greenhouse gas hazard determination. This action undermines decades of rigorous scientific research showing that carbon dioxide, methane and other emissions pose a clear threat to human health and well-being. AGU strongly supports the global scientific community: the weight…

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Main emerging trends in non-traditional and digital financing

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In today’s world, where technology is transforming everything rapidly and on a large scale, you are also reconsidering financing in this fast-paced economy. Traditional bank loans are no longer the only way to obtain funds. Crowdfunding platforms and digital lending options for equity financing and fintech-driven solutions have offered borrowers more flexible, faster, technology-based and…

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Scientists Finally Explain Mysterious “Impossible” Merger of Two Massive Black Holes

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A detailed set of simulations by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses previously thought unattainable. In 2023, astronomers recorded a dramatic cosmic event. Two unusually large black holes collided about 7 billion light years from Earth, and their […] #Scientists #Finally #Explain #Mysterious…

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SGLA rejects Florida bill cracking down on online gambling and sweepstakes

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Social Gaming Leadership Alliance (SGLA) Executive Director Jeff Duncan publicly disagreed with a recent Florida bill restricting sweepstakes. The Florida bill, titled HB 591is an 86-page document detailing legal steps being prepared to criminalize online gambling and bolster the Seminole Tribe’s exclusive rights to gambling statewide. It has faced immediate pushback from the gambling casino…

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The ‘truth serum’ for AI: OpenAI’s new method for training models to confess their mistakes

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OpenAI researchers have introduced a novel method that acts as "truth serum" for large language models (LLM), forcing them to self-report their own misbehavior, hallucinations, and policy violations. This technique, "confessions," addresses a growing concern in enterprise AI: models can be dishonest, overconfident, or conceal the shortcuts they take to get to an answer. For…

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Its AI-generated image of a cat riding a banana exists because children scratch the earth for toxic elements. Is it really worth it?

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Behind the result of large language models like Chat GPT lies a journey with complex environmental and social impacts, from mineral extraction by children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to training systems that expose people to violent and degrading images in countries like Nigeria, and huge, resource-intensive data centers in regions where energy,…

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