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Scientists have turned waste cooking oil into a variety of recyclable plastics with superior strength, some durable enough to tow a car.Turning non-edible waste into useful polymers is a sustainable way to create new materials, researchers said in a new study published Nov. 28 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.“Waste streams offer a potentially attractive alternative to biomass-derived feedstocks [to make plastics]” the researchers wrote in their study. you may like One such waste stream is used cooking oil, of which approximately 3.7 billion gallons are generated each year. This waste oil has traditionally been used as lubricants,…
Tiger Global, the investor that fueled the 2020-2021 VC bull market, is reportedly raising $2.2 billion in new funding. The company sent a letter to potential limited partners seeking financing for an entity called Private Investment Partners 17 (PIP 17), according to a copy obtained by CNBC. The letter also promises a more humble approach than during the crazy bull market of 2021. Meanwhile, Tiger Global moved quickly and made deep investments, a technique known in the venture world as “spray and pray.” As reported by TechCrunch, PIP 15 raised in 2021 was a whopping $12.7 billion in funding that…
As data center energy demand soars, environmental groups are calling for approvals for new facilities and a moratorium on construction. More than 230 organizations, including Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace, signed an open letter asking members of Congress to support a national moratorium on new data center approvals and construction, citing increased electricity and water consumption. “The rapid and largely unregulated proliferation of data centers fueling the AI and cryptocurrency craze is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate, and water security,” the letter reads. Several studies have linked rising energy…
Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks directly from chat threads. The beta feature, which will be available as a research preview on Monday, builds on Anthropic’s existing Slack integration by adding full workflow automation. This development shows that the next frontier for coding assistants isn’t models. It’s a workflow. Previously, developers could only get lightweight coding help, such as creating snippets, debugging, and explanations, through Claude in Slack. You can now tag @Claude to start a full coding session using Slack contexts like bug reports and feature requests. Claude analyzes recent messages to determine…
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign called JS#SMUGGLER. This campaign has been observed utilizing compromised websites as a distribution vector for a remote access Trojan named NetSupport RAT. The attack chain analyzed by Securonix includes three main moving parts: an obfuscated JavaScript loader injected into a website, an HTML application (HTA) that uses ‘mshta.exe’ to run an encrypted PowerShell stager, and a PowerShell payload designed to download and execute the primary malware. Researchers Akshay Gaikwad, Shikha Sangwan, and Aaron Beardslee said, “NetSupport RAT allows attackers complete control over a victim host, including remote desktop access, file manipulation,…
A record-breaking study using particle detectors a mile underground in South Dakota may have revealed new insights into dark matter, the mysterious substance believed to make up most of the matter in the universe.The experiment, called LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), used the largest dataset of its kind to constrain the potential properties of one of the leading candidates for dark matter with unprecedented sensitivity. Although the study did not reveal any evidence of this mysterious material, future research could help avoid false positives and zero in on this poorly understood part of the universe.”This quest is about trying to solve this big…
Pet supplies and services giant Petco acknowledged last week that it had suffered a data breach involving customers’ personal information, but did not say what type of data was affected. Petco reported Friday in a legal filing with the Texas Attorney General’s Office that the affected data included names, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial information such as account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, and dates of birth. Petco filed similar legally required notices in California, Massachusetts, and Montana. In the latter two states, Petco reported one and three residents affected, respectively. The company did not disclose the…
President Donald Trump said Monday that he plans to write an executive order this week that would restrict states from enacting their own regulations for AI technology. President Trump posted on social media, “This week, I am issuing a one-rule executive order.” “You can’t expect companies to get 50 approvals every time they do something.” “If we are to continue to lead in AI, there must be only one rulebook,” President Trump said. “We’re beating every country at this point in the race, but if 50 states (many of them bad actors) end up getting involved in the rules and…
Days after Warners agreed to be acquired by Netflix for $82.7 billion, Paramount Skydance launched a hostile $108.4 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) on Monday. Paramount is making an all-cash offer of $30 per share directly to WBD shareholders, noting that its offer provides shareholders with $18 billion more cash than the deal with Netflix, which offered $23.25 in cash and $4.50 in Netflix stock, for a total of $27.75. Paramount is bidding for the entirety of WBD, but Netflix’s deal with the company includes only the Hollywood studio and streaming operations. CNBC reported on Monday that…
refresh 2025-12-08T15:51:12.794Z Unusual sacrificial complex discovered in Russia Researchers have reported that a “sacrificial facility” has been discovered in Russia. (Image source: Institute of Archeology, Russian Academy of Sciences) Russian archaeologists recently discovered a collection of hundreds of horse bridles and bronze beads near the tomb of a high-ranking nomad from the 4th century BC.The artifacts themselves are not that surprising – after all, these nomads relied on horses for transportation, but their collection as a kind of “sacrifice” is unusual.If you want to know more about this find, which strangely included a golden plate depicting a tiger, check out…