Ukraine Works to Identify 6,000 Bodies Sent From Russia in Makeshift Rail Platform Lab
The mass return of fallen soldiers is one of the few concrete results of U.S.-orchestrated truce negotiations.
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Around the world, birds sing longer in light-polluted areas
Light pollution makes birds work overtime. A behavioral analysis of nearly 600 bird species suggests that light pollution from human development can lengthen the time birds spend singing by nearly an hour per day, researchers report August 21 in Science. The extension’s magnitude took the researchers by surprise. “While we expected some behavioral adjustment to…
MIT report misunderstood: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure
A new MIT report reveals that while 95% of corporate AI pilots fail, 90% of workers are quietly succeeding with personal AI tools, driving a hidden productivity boom.Read More
Man arrested after 12-year-old girl hit with sex toy at WNBA game | WNBA
A man has been arrested for throwing a sex toy during an WNBA game in New York, police said Thursday. It is the latest development in a string of disturbances where similar toys were tossed at WNBA games across the country, resulting in at least three arrests. Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested…
Alia Bhatt’s NCB campaign video faces online backlash
Alia Bhatt recently appeared in a campaign video released by the Chandigarh division of the Narcotics Control Bureau. What was meant to be a strong awareness message soon turned into controversy online, drawing sharp reactions from many users. The criticism eventually forced the agency to turn off comments on the post, but the video still…
Vance Recounts Telling Zelensky to ‘Behave’ in Trump Meeting
It was not the first time that the vice president had addressed Ukraine’s leader with words more commonly spoken to toddlers than heads of state.
OpenAI Model Earns Gold-Medal Score at International Math Olympiad and Advances Path to Artificial General Intelligence
A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an artificial intelligence model to think on its own for hours so that it was capable of writing math proofs. Their goal wasn’t…
‘The Office’ Follow-Up ‘The Paper’ To Drop All Epiodes For Premiere
The Office follow-up series, The Paper, will no longer be released on a weekly schedule when the show premieres on September 4; instead, it will pivot to a binge release. All 10 episodes will be available to stream at once. The Paper, a mockumentary from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, is set in the same universe as NBC’s Emmy…
Walmart’s Earnings Show ‘Momentum’ as Tariffs Raise Prices
After mixed reports from retail rivals, Walmart reported better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its sales forecast for the year.
Former Longhorn becoming key part of Saints offensive line
Kelvin Banks Jr through two preseason games (23 pass pro snaps): • 0 pressures• 0 sacks• 0 hurries• 0 QB hits• 90.1 pass block effectiveness grade Good start for the top 10 pick at LT. pic.twitter.com/eGwsNBUm2n — Ryan Fowler (@_RyanFowler_) August 18, 2025 When the NFL regular season begins, many in Austin will have their…