The pipe belonged to Tesla. The dark liquid was wastewater from the company’s nearly $1 billion lithium refinery, which began operations in December 2024 and was, at the time, the first commercial-scale spodumene-to-lithium-hydroxide refinery in North America. Tesla had marketed the plant for years as an “acid-free clean process,” promising sand and limestone as the main byproducts. The drainage district had not been told that 231,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day would be flowing through its infrastructure.

The flash crash happened when Sarao's algorithm had been turned off, and the price should have been rebounding

62 percent of Ottawa neighbourhoods got faster by car between 2019 and 2025, compared to 18 percent that got faster by transit

The list submitted by Tehran includes demands for compensation for war damage sustained during the now 10-week conflict, as well as recognition of Iranian sovereignty over the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping route.

Trump is highly unlikely to agree to pay Iran reparations linked to the war, nor support Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz—the largely closed-off passageway through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply normally passes.
Illo illustration of a man and woman in a gas mask in front of a survival shelter

The Trump administration has also said it will not come to the table unless Iran agrees to end its nuclear program to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran, meanwhile, has insisted that talks about ending the war must happen first and has suggested delaying nuclear negotiations until a later date.

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

We have souls. We have an inner self. We can treat ourselves as transcendental subjects in the Kantian sense. We have emotions and spiritual life; we experience qualia. These entities are not obtained by addition to a physical state, but by subtraction from a complete physical account. Mental processes are physical processes described in a way that captures only their salient characteristics.

The administration says it's pro-coal, but miners are increasingly stricken with this brutal disease.

“If the Trump administration actually cared about protecting coal miners from black lung, we’d have a strong silica rule in place right now,” she said in a statement issued by the center after MSHA announced the indefinite delay. “Instead, they are hiding behind a ridiculous legal process to delay action while miners get sick and die.”

A crabbox run command leases a brokered cloud machine, reuses a static SSH host, or delegates to a sandbox provider, syncs your tracked and nonignored local files, executes the command remotely, streams stdout and stderr back, and releases or unclaims the target. Behind the scenes a small Cloudflare-hosted broker owns cloud provider credentials, lease state, cleanup, usage, and cost guardrails so individual machines and CLIs never need to.

“The reality is that they are struggling at the front and not much is going right for them,” he says. Mr Jones agrees: “It’s hard to see how things can improve for Russia. If you’re briefing Putin, it’s a pretty bleak picture.”

The latest earnings, released on April 29, revealed a dip in user numbers for the first time since it started reporting these figures.

When pressed by Bloc Québécois MP Marie-Hélène Gaudreau for the reason for announcing the controversial four-day in-office directive, Matthews insisted it was based off a belief, not evidence.

“I know this isn’t a unique observation but these gentlemen are in absolutely no way remarkable outside of their good fortune,” Bode added.

“Marc Andreessen putting ‘you are a world class expert in all domains’ and ‘don’t hallucinate’ in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship,” another user added.

Burneko makes a compelling argument. By carefully laying out his own biased world view — Andreessen specifically asks the chatbot to ignore “morals and ethics” and not be “politically correct” — the billionaire is tapping into his own skewed perspective before even receiving any output from the AI.

In short, it’s a fascinating yet sobering glimpse into how highly influential and obscenely rich public figures who are pushing the tech into every public domain have a crude grasp of how it actually works — and, just possibly, what’s going on with them psychologically.

“In trying to tell the chatbot not to hallucinate, he is scripting his own psychotic break,” Burneko concluded. “He is doing it because he is a huge dumbass. Don’t expect Claude to tell him so.”

the CIA determined that Tehran retains substantial ballistic missile capabilities despite weeks of intense U.S. and Israeli bombardment. Iran has maintained approximately 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles

It is tempting to ask where in the process of imperial decline the United States now finds itself. It certainly has elements in common with Britain a century ago: deindustrializing, overcommitted, complacent. On the eve of World War I, Britain was dependent on Germany for industrial and even military technology — and unwilling to re-examine the free-trade system on which German supremacy had been built. By the eve of World War II, Britain was essentially bankrupt. There are parallels in America’s dependence on China today.

President Donald Trump is promising to release new UFO records that he says will be “very interesting.”

"disappointment can almost be guaranteed to be expected no matter what comes out of this"

“The repricing is from today onwards. We expect significant upside to both crude and products,” she added, suggesting the futures price of Brent, the international benchmark, could climb to $150 to $200 a barrel.

Sadly, no. Our experiment is fully explained by standard physics.

"I think what people really want is prosperity, agency, the ability to have an interesting life, and to be fulfilled and have some impact," he said.

‘Maximize utility’
In addition to Gary Wang and Nishad Singh, Ellison was a key lieutenant in Bankman-Fried’s crypto conglomerate. However, having dated Bankman-Fried on and off since the fall of 2018, she had arguably a more privileged window into the FTX founder’s mind.
On Tuesday, she testified that Bankman-Fried had at one point told her that he gave himself a 5% chance “he would become president someday,” hinting at his alleged egotism. “When you say ‘president,’ what are you referring to?” asked Danielle Sassoon, the prosecutor questioning her. “Of the United States,” responded Ellison.
On Wednesday, Ellison gave the jurors a further glimpse into Bankman-Fried’s potential motivations for allegedly committing fraud. Shortly after the lunch break, she said that Bankman-Fried was a utilitarian, meaning that “he thought the only moral value that mattered was whatever would maximize utility,” which she explained as “essentially trying to create the greatest good for the greatest number of people or beings.”
And as opposed to other utilitarians, Bankman-Fried saw that “rules like ‘don’t lie’ or ‘don’t steal’ didn’t fit into that framework,” she said, adding that his views slowly influenced hers.
“When I started working at Alameda,” she testified, “I don’t think I would have believed [it] if you told me that a few years later I would be sending false balance sheets to our lenders or taking customer money.”

sbf doesn't understand risk

"let’s say there’s a game: 51 percent, you double the Earth out somewhere else; 49 percent, it all disappears. Would you play that game? And would you keep on playing that, double or nothing?"

The same risk applies to public grocery. “If governments want public stores to improve affordability, they have to fund the boring, expensive parts: procurement, distribution, workforce, data systems. Otherwise, we’re not setting these interventions up for impact.”

Kennedy, apparently alluding to his exchange with Warren, said he had on Wednesday told a Democratic senator who challenged Trump’s claims of a 600% reduction in drug prices: “Well, if the drug was $100, and it raised the price to $600, that would be a 600% rise. Well, if it drops from $600 to $100, that’s a 600% savings.”

“That’s right,” Trump interjected as Kennedy was explaining. But it’s not.

“And I think one of the things that has been most gratifying, after – immediately after the story published was, I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information.”

Despite our excitement, open theoretical questions remain that prevent us from definitively claiming that physics beyond the Standard Model has been observed. The most serious question arises from so-called "charming penguins," a set of processes present in the Standard Model, whose contributions are extremely tricky to predict. Recent estimates of these charming penguins suggest their effects are not large enough to explain our data.

In the diagram of the bottom quark decay, the virtual particles appear as a loop and a series of squiggles. The final drawing—first introduced by Mikhail Shifman, Arkady Vainshtein and Valentin Zakharov—almost resembles a bird with a head, a round, white belly and two feet.

I can get so much done, but after just an hour or two my mental energy for the day feels almost entirely depleted

The simple truth is that I am less valuable than I used to be. It stings to be made obsolete, but it’s fun to code on the train, too. And if this technology keeps improving, then all of the people who tell me how hard it is to make a report, place an order, upgrade an app or update a record — they could get the software they deserve, too. That might be a good trade, long term.

A Karabiner-Elements config that uses the extra keys on an Apple JIS keyboard to build a US-compatible layout with a Hyper key, Vim navigation, window tiling, and modular accent support for Italian, French, Spanish, and German.

If AI isn’t to blame for the terrible job market for young people, then what is? In nearly every sector of the economy, the pace of hiring has slowed to levels last seen shortly after the Great Recession. A job market with few hiring opportunities is especially punishing for young people entering the workforce, including those with a college degree.

Average lost per year in DeFi,% : 3.37%

more than 70% of unskilled service workers (think baristas and call-centre staff) born in Norway have masters degrees

Bush and Trump both came to office determined to avoid the mistaken wars of their predecessors. Nevertheless, they both embarked on military adventures fed by a hubristic belief in American power.

But while the U.S. was strong enough — and its adversaries still weak enough — to recoup much of the damage inflicted by Bush’s war, the war unfolding in Iran today will leave behind an America that will have lost much of its global power, standing and influence, destined to confront rising adversaries all on its own.

On the kernel security list we've seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only difference being only AI slop, and now since the beginning of the year we're around 5-10 per day depending on the days (fridays and tuesdays seem the worst). Now most of these reports are correct, to the point that we had to bring in more maintainers to help us.

Overall I think we're going to see a much higher quality of software, ironically around the same level than before 2000 when the net became usable by everyone to download fixes. When the software had to be pressed to CDs or written to millions of floppies, it had to survive an amazing quantity of tests that are mostly neglected nowadays since updates are easy to distribute. But before this happens, we have to experience a huge mess that might last for a few years to come! Interesting times...

Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met Tuesday in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. At the end of the meeting they published a joint peace initiative:

1. Immediate Cessation of Hostilities, with humanitarian assistance allowed to all war-affected areas.
2. Start of peace talks as soon as possible under the principle of safeguarding the independence and security of Iran and the Gulf states. All parties will commit to refraining from the use or the threat of use of force during peace talks.
3. The parties to the conflict will immediately stop attacks on important infrastructure, including energy, desalination and power facilities, and peaceful nuclear infrastructure, such as nuclear power plants.
4. The parties will allow the early and safe passage of civilian and commercial ships, and restore normal passage through the Strait as soon as possible.
5. Conclusion of an agreement for establishing a comprehensive peace framework based on the principles of the UN Charter and international law.

Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism.

Based on government and independent analyses, right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.

The countries with the least capacity to pay elevated prices feel it first and hardest.

The countries most exposed are those already import-dependent on fertilizer and food: South and Southeast Asia, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of the Middle East.

Iran is cementing its hold over the Strait of Hormuz, demanding vessels give up detailed information and detour into Iranian waters before being vetted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

From March 1 to 23, Iran exported about 1.6 million barrels a day on average, close to prewar levels

Iran is also bringing in extra income by charging transit fees of as much as US$2 million on some commercial ships crossing the strait.

each episode corresponds to a random combination of object generations, monster placements and different level variants, which in turn requires using different combinations of strategies at each episode

Typical refactor work is using jscpd for code duplication, knip for dead code, running eslint’s react-compiler and deprecation plugins, checking if we introduced api routes that can be consolidated, maintaining my docs, breaking apart files that grew too large, adding tests and code comments for tricky parts, updating dependencies, tool upgrades, file restructuring, finding and rewriting slow tests, mentioning modern react patterns and rewriting code

The freelance photographer behind the viral image, Ahmeed al-Arini, gathered the image for Turkish media outlet Anadolu Agency. It was then distributed to media organisations via the reputable photo wire service, Getty Images.
A malnourished toddler sits in his mother’s lap in a tent with his mouth agape

The pictures were taken by freelance photographer Ahmeed al-Arini. (Getty Images: Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu)

Ahmeed al-Arini explained to the BBC how he came across the boy and his family.

"He was with his mother in a tent, which is absolutely bare, bar a little oven. It resembles a tomb, really. And I took this photo because I wanted to show the rest of the world extreme hunger that babies and children are suffering from in the Gaza Strip," he said.

"He'd received no baby milk, no formula, no vitamins either."

Anadolu Agency also published an interview with Muhammad's doctor, Suzan Mohammed Marouf, a nutrition specialist at The Patient's Friends Benevolent Society Hospital (PFBS) in Gaza.

Dr Marouf said the child was brought to the hospital a month ago and diagnosed with moderate malnutrition on top of congenital health problems and muscle atrophy.

"The medical issues he had weren't significantly affecting his weight," Dr Marouf told the news organisation.

"But once the siege and the closure of crossings depleted hospitals' medicine stocks and nutritional supplements, Mohammad's condition deteriorated to acute malnutrition," she added.

ABC has also contacted Anadolu Agency, which has said Muhammad's mother has confirmed he has previous health complications, and she has also provided past photos of her son before his deterioration, which she says was from a shortage of food and milk.