In a Hamlet Built on Forbidden Love, a Cyclone Buried It All
Three generations of a family built their homes and lives in Sri Lanka’s highland tea country. The biggest storm in decades wiped out their hamlet in a landslide.
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De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn’t live up to the hype
Colossal’s so-called dire wolf Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first and only de-extinction company”, generated a lot of headlines this year. The hype, however, bore little relation to reality. First, the US-based firm made a splash with woolly mice “engineered to express multiple key mammoth-like traits”. Victoria Herridge at the University…
Parents call for New York governor to sign landmark AI safety bill
A group of more than 150 parents sent a letter on Friday to New York governor Kathy Hochul, urging her to sign the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act without changes. The RAISE Act is a buzzy bill that would require developers of large AI models — like Meta, OpenAI, Deepseek, and Google —…
‘Tracker’ Adds Kathleen Robertson & Mark Engelhardt As Recurring
EXCLUSIVE: There will be two new faces to be seen soon in Tracker. Kathleen Robertson (Swimming with Sharks) and Mark Engelhardt (American Horror Story: Asylum) have been cast in recurring roles opposite Justin Hartley and Fiona Rene in the hit CBS series. Based on the bestselling novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver, Tracker stars Hartley as Colter Shaw,…
Satou Sabally (concussion) out indefinitely for Unrivaled
Phoenix Mercury forward Satou Sabally has been ruled out of playing in Unrivaled indefinitely as she continues to deal with lingering symptoms from a concussion sustained during Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, the 3-on-3 league announced Friday. Sabally sustained the concussion Oct. 8 in the fourth quarter of Game 3. With 4:26 left in…
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Behind the Venezuelan Opposition Leader’s Daring Escape to Oslo
An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation.
Ai2’s new Olmo 3.1 extends reinforcement learning training for stronger reasoning benchmarks
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1. The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises. Ai2 updated two of…
bitchy | “Joel Edgerton is really Oscar-campaigning for ‘Train Dreams’” links
Joel Edgerton is campaigning for Train Dreams. Good. He should have been Oscar-nominated for Loving! [LaineyGossip]The White House continues to lie about Donald Trump’s hands. [Buzzfeed]The trailer for Charli XCX’s The Moment. [OMG Blog]Andy Dick refuses to go to rehab. [Socialite Life]Jacob Elordi doesn’t give a sh-t about these AI questions. [Pajiba]Ayo Edebiri in Chanel……
College football: Utah’s Kyle Whittingham to step down after bowl game
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Utah Utes will be ending an era when they play against Nebraska in the Las Vegas Bowl Dec. 31. It will be head coach Kyle Whittingham’s last game as head coach after the 66-year-old announced Friday he is stepping down. Whittingham is the winningest coach in…