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simple factsWhere is it? tylertown, mississippi [31.140899624, -90.17186140]What is in the photo? A pair of parallel tracks carved by a tornado during a major stormWhich satellite took the photo?Landsat 8When was it taken? March 22, 2025This impressive satellite image shows two nearly perfectly parallel tornado tracks in Mississippi carved into the ground after the deadly storm system spawned more than 100 twisters across the United States in early 2025.From March 14th to 16th, a series of extreme thunderstorms occurred across the Highlands and Midwest due to an “extended upper-level trough” of warm, humid air. The storm system spawned 113 tornadoes…
Thomas Garabetian, Head of Research and Innovation at SolarPower Europe, shares highlights and lessons from the annual EU PVSEC held in September. This year’s European Photovoltaic Energy Conference (EU PVSEC) was held from 22 to 26 September 2025 and remains a pivotal event in the solar energy sector. Bringing together an extensive network of researchers, industry leaders, and policy makers from around the world, this year’s conference showcased not only the latest advances in solar power technology, but also the dynamics of the solar power market as it evolves in response to the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions. To…
November 25, 2025Ravi LakshmananSpyware/Mobile Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday issued a warning about criminals actively using commercial spyware and remote access Trojans (RATs) to target users of mobile messaging applications. “These cyberattackers leverage sophisticated targeting and social engineering techniques to deliver spyware, gain unauthorized access to victims’ messaging apps, and facilitate the deployment of additional malicious payloads that may further compromise victims’ mobile devices,” the agency said. CISA cited several campaigns uncovered since the beginning of the year as examples. Some of them are – Multiple Russian-aligned attackers target the Signal messaging app by…
Google has partnered with Accel to discover and fund early-stage AI startups in India in a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Google AI Futures Fund, launched earlier this year. On Tuesday, Accel and Google announced a partnership to co-invest up to $2 million in each startup through Accel’s Atoms program, with each company contributing up to $1 million. The 2026 cohort will focus on Indian and Diaspora founders who are building AI products from day one. “The thought process is to not only support AI products built in India for the global market, but to build AI products for billions of…
“When people see it, they say, ‘Is that all?…It’s so simple.'” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has this to say about how people will react when they see the company’s upcoming AI hardware devices for the first time. The device is the result of a collaboration between OpenAI and former Apple chief designer Jony Ive. Not much is known about the product yet, other than rumors that it’s “screenless” and pocket-sized. Earlier this year, OpenAI acquired Ive’s design startup io to bring AI to the masses through some kind of tech gadget. This weekend, Altman and Ive expanded on their vision…
Ozempic and similar drugs are not recommended for use during pregnancy, but new data suggests that stopping the drug before pregnancy may carry some risks.These data should be interpreted as an early signal that warrants further investigation, researchers involved in the study told Live Science.This analysis had important limitations. Women who used weight management drugs and those who did not may not have been completely comparable, and the study was not designed to capture the potential benefits of taking Ozempic or similar drugs before pregnancy. you may like “We don’t know if there are benefits or increased risks if you…
OpenAI’s social app Sora was released with a controversial feature called Cameo that allows users to deepfake themselves or others (with their permission). The feature has been volatile, requiring the involvement of Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate to find out what happened, but now faces new challenges. Apparently, Cameo, an app for purchasing custom video messages from celebrities, can claim a trademark on the word “cameo.” U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee imposed a temporary restraining order against Sora that prohibits OpenAI from using the word “cameo” and similar-sounding words and phrases. The temporary restraining order issued on November 21,…
Amazon Web Services is making significant new investments in infrastructure designed to power U.S. government agencies’ AI capabilities. AWS announced Monday that it will invest $50 billion to build AI “high-performance computing infrastructure” purpose-built for the U.S. government. This increase is intended to expand access to AWS AI services by federal agencies. The project will add 1.3 gigawatts of computing power and expand government access to AWS products including Amazon SageMaker AI, model customization, Amazon Bedrock, model deployment, Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, and more, according to the company. AWS plans to break ground on these data center projects in 2026. “Our…
On Monday, Anthropic announced the latest version of its flagship model, Opus 4.5. This is the last model in the Anthropic 4.5 series to be released, following the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. As expected, the new version of Opus delivers state-of-the-art performance across a variety of benchmarks, including coding benchmarks (SWE bench and terminal bench), tool usage (tau2 bench and MCP Atlas), and general problem solving (ARC-AGI 2, GPQA Diamond). Notably, Opus 4.5 is the first model to score above 80% in SWE-Bench validation, a popular coding benchmark. Anthropic also launched a number…
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever observed. Hosted by the galaxy GHZ2, this massive object is so far away that astronomers have observed it only 350 million years after the Big Bang.The team’s study, which was uploaded to the preprint server arXiv on November 4 but has not yet been peer-reviewed, used observations from JWST’s near-infrared spectrometer and mid-infrared instruments. These instruments cover a wide range of wavelengths and can detect ultraviolet and optical light originally emitted by distant galaxies and extended into the infrared by the expansion…