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Wikipedia on Monday laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite declining traffic. In a blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the popular online encyclopedia, called on AI developers to use their content “responsibly” by ensuring their contributions are properly attributed and accessed through the Wikimedia Enterprise Platform, a paid product. The opt-in, paid product allows businesses to use Wikipedia content at scale without “putting significant strain on Wikipedia’s servers,” a Wikimedia Foundation blog post explains. Additionally, because the product is paid, AI companies can support organizations’ nonprofit missions.…
A never-before-seen comet that shares some minor similarities with the infamous interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to our planet, just days after it was first spotted hurtling toward us.However, despite suggestions to the contrary, the newly discovered comet is almost certainly not related to modern interstellar visitors and originated within our solar system.The new comet, named C/2025 V1 (Borisov), was first discovered on November 2 by Crimea-based amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov. It is scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday (November 11), when it will be 64 million miles (103 million kilometers)…
Carbon management startup Carbon Direct has acquired another carbon credit startup, Pachama, the companies announced today. Pachama laid off about 20 employees this summer as a result of the voluntary carbon market softening. The company had attracted investment from a variety of celebrities, including Amazon’s Climate Pledge, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, and prominent angel investors including Ellen DeGeneres, Laura Dern, and Serena Williams. “The current uncertain and volatile financial, economic and geopolitical climate, in addition to anti-ESG policies in the United States, are certainly having an impact on corporate sustainability budgets,” Pacama CEO Diego Saez Gil told Trellis at…
The breakup of the ancient supercontinent Nuna during Earth’s “boring billion years” may have shaken up the planet, and its reorganization may have created the conditions for complex life, a new study shows in unprecedented detail.The “Bowling Billion” refers to the period from 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago. Although this period included the breakup and assembly of two ancient supercontinents, Nuna and Rodinia, scientists gave the period this name because of its perceived lack of upheaval.”The term was coined to describe what appears to be a long period of geochemical, climatic and biological stability in Earth’s history,” University…
On October 29th, comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to the Sun.This point, known as perihelion, was about 210 million kilometers from the Sun, or 1.4 times the distance between the Sun and Earth, and was on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun. This means that the sun was blocking the comet from our view (from Earth). Currently, ground-based telescopes are starting observations again.This comet is the third interstellar object (hence “3I”) that we have detected passing through our solar system. you may like When it was first detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial Alert System (ATLAS) on July…
For more than a decade, makers of government spyware have defended themselves from criticism by insisting that their surveillance technology is intended to be used only against serious criminals and terrorists and in limited cases. However, evidence gathered from dozens, if not hundreds, of documented cases of spyware abuse around the world shows that none of these arguments are true. Journalists, human rights defenders, and politicians have been repeatedly targeted in both repressive regimes and democracies. The latest example is a political consultant working for a left-wing politician in Italy, who has been revealed as the country’s most recently identified…
These persistent substances in everyday products and industrial applications raise serious questions about their long-term effects on health and the environment. Dr Kruchev will provide expert insight into how these chemicals behave, why they are so difficult to manage and the challenges of tackling their widespread presence across the UK. Can you explain what the eternal chemical is and why it is called so? Forever chemicals is a term used to describe a large group of manufactured substances, also known as PFAS, which stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. It is used in everyday items such as non-stick cookware and…
Refresh 2025-11-13T10:44:57.234Z China’s stranded astronauts could be home by Friday Good morning science fans. We’re back again with news that China could be close to returning its astronauts, stranded in the Tiangong space station after a space debris incident last week.I wrote a story on preparations for their return last night. Now, an aerospace closure issued around Inner Mongolia’s Dongfeng site for the early hours of the morning EST on Friday (Nov. 14) could hint at an imminent return.More news on this as we get it. In the meantime, check out this story on the growing problem of overcrowding in…
LLM-powered AI agents are a fairly new phenomenon, but one of the most popular areas so far is sales. 1Mind, a startup co-founded by Amanda Carlow, has been quietly shipping a reseller named Mindy for about a year. On Monday, the startup announced a $30 million Series A round led by Battery Ventures. This brings 1Mind’s total funding to $40 million, the company said. Kahlow is well known in the sales and marketing technology world as the founder and former CEO of 6Sense. It was launched in 2013 as a lead generation tool that tracks social media and other site-wide…
After helping several companies document how work actually gets done, Scribe raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation to deploy Scribe Optimize. Scribe Optimize is a platform that maps workflows across your enterprise to reveal where automation and AI actually generate benefits, rather than becoming new sunk costs. The all-stock Series C round was led by StepStone, with participation from existing investors Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, Morado Ventures, and New York Life Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Jennifer Smith (pictured above, left) said in an exclusive interview that the new funding comes more than a year after…