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Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft’s 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking — Nature paper argues researche…
Senators alarmed at Trump administration website Moms.gov promoting anti-abortion facilities
Administration claims website is resource for ‘new and expecting mothers’ but group of senators says it raises ‘profound’ health and safety concernsA group of 11 senators have sent a letter to Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy urging them to remove a f…
Trump abruptly cancels plan to sign bipartisan bill aimed at lowering cost of housing
President is demanding Senate approve Save America Act, which would dramatically change voting regulationsUS politics – live updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailDonald Trump abruptly shelved plans to sign a broad bipartisan bill aim…
Colombia’s left-wing presidential candidate concedes defeat
Senator Iván Cepeda was beaten by right-wing businessman Abelardo de la Espriella by less than a percentage point.
Bride-to-be, 20, & ‘lover’ arrested after ‘pushing her fiance 400ft to his death on a hike and telling cops he slipped’
A BRIDE-TO-BE and her alleged lover have been arrested after they pushed her fiancé to his death off a cliff, cops say. Ketan Vishal Agrawal died after plunging into a 400ft-deep gorge in Lohagad Fort, India – with his fiancée claiming that he slipped….
AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption
Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviourThe surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago has been virtuall…
Colombia’s leftwing candidate concedes election to Trump-endorsed millionaire
Leftist Iván Cepeda conceded to far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella who won by razor-thin marginThe defeated leftwing candidate in Colombia’s presidential runoff has conceded to the far-right, Trump-admiring millionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espr…
Jealous woman, 35, who killed girl, 13, and boy, 7, after sending poisoned Easter eggs to ex’s new family is jailed
A MONSTER ex has been jailed for murdering two children with an Easter egg laced with rat toxin sent to their mother as a revenge gift. Jordelia Pereira Barbosa, 35, will spend the next 66 years behind bars after poisoning Luiz Fernando Rocha Silva, se…
Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
Hugo Lowell / Wired:
Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 — At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Ant…
Former youth pastor accused of killing wife of 20 years after her fatal fall at Zion National Park
Bernadette Vander Meer fell to her death in 2006 while hiking Angels landing, a strenuous trail in Zion National Park