Before altering the air, microbes oxygenated large swaths of the sea

Ancient oxygen-making microbes may have oxygenated large swaths of Earth’s seafloor hundreds of millions of years before the element filled the atmosphere. Geochemical analysis of sediments deposited roughly 2.6 billion years ago reveals that pulses of oxygen may have swept through large regions of the ocean, researchers report April 26 in Nature Geoscience. The findings…

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Why Sugar Dating Exists: A Sociological Look at Power, Money, and Intimacy

Sugar dating isn’t new, but it’s never been more visible. Glossy platforms match wealthy benefactors (“sugar daddies” or “mommies”) with younger partners (“sugar babies”) in arrangements that blur the lines between romance, mentorship, and financial support. Critics call it transactional. Supporters call it honest. But beneath the clickbait headlines lies something deeper: a reflection of…

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Xanthorox AI Lets Anyone Become a Cybercriminal

This article includes a reference to violent sexual assault. Reports of a sophisticated new artificial intelligence platform started surfacing on cybersecurity blogs in April, describing a bespoke system whispered about on dark web hacker forums and created for the sole purpose of crime. But despite its shadowy provenance and evil-sounding name, Xanthorox isn’t so mysterious….

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Anthropic launches Claude web search API, betting on the future of post-Google information access

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic has introduced a web search capability for its Claude AI assistant, intensifying competition in the rapidly evolving AI search market where tech giants are racing to redefine how users find information online. The company announced…

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