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Faith in Tech Fixes May Dampen Climate Action, Study of Scientists Suggests
Scientists who believe technology will ultimately solve the climate crisis are less likely to take action on climate change themselves, according to research reported this week. The finding, highlighted by the Guardian, points to a psychological pattern that researchers have long suspected but rarely tested within the scientific community itself: the more confident a person…
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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026 Awarded for Research into the Mysteries of the Brain
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for research into the workings of the brain, the Nobel Assembly at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute announced this week, honouring a field that has transformed our understanding of how thought, memory and behaviour arise from biological tissue. The decision places neuroscience back at the centre…
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The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared
For decades, the fossil fuel industry had a reliable shield against legal and political accountability: uncertainty. Climate change, the argument went, was a diffuse, global phenomenon. No single storm, flood or heat wave could be pinned on any particular company’s product. Harm was everywhere and nowhere, and that ambiguity was worth more to oil producers…
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What an Earnings Calendar Is — and How Investors Actually Use It
A simple tool at the centre of market-moving weeks Few pages on a financial website get refreshed as often as the earnings calendar. It is, on the surface, one of the plainest things in finance: a list of companies, a list of dates, and an indication of whether a firm is due to report before…
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Bank of France Chief Warns Country Risks Being ‘Strangled by Interest Rates’
France’s central bank governor has issued a blunt warning that the country risks being “strangled by interest rates” unless it gets a grip on its public finances, according to the Financial Times. The intervention, reported on Monday, is among the starkest yet from the Banque de France, whose governor, Franu00e7ois Villeroy de Galhau, has repeatedly…
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San Antonio Tax Preparer Sentenced to Federal Prison, Ordered to Repay $3.8 Million
A San Antonio tax preparation business owner has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay roughly $3.8 million in restitution, capping a case that underscores how aggressively federal authorities pursue fraud in the tax preparation industry. The sentence, handed down in federal court, follows an investigation into the business owner’s handling of client…
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When the Ad Machine Turns: How Meta’s Dominance Squeezes Small Online Retailers
A New York Times opinion piece published this week makes a claim that will sound familiar to anyone who has tried to build a business on the internet over the past decade: Meta is crushing small online retailers. The argument rests on a simple dependency. For years, Facebook and Instagram offered small merchants something that…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google Stop Short of AI Safety Guarantee
Major AI Labs Decline to Offer Safety Guarantees as Scrutiny Intensifies Four of the most influential companies in artificial intelligence u2014 OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google u2014 have stopped short of promising that their systems are safe, according to a Fox News report, underscoring a persistent gap between the industry’s confident public messaging and the…
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Trump Makes It Clear His Power Is Becoming Entwined With AI
A presidency increasingly defined by the machines For much of the past decade, artificial intelligence was discussed in Washington as a policy problem: something to be regulated, funded, restrained or encouraged. Increasingly, it is something else entirely â an instrument of presidential power itself. That is the thrust of a growing body of reporting and…
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Privacy Regulator Probes China-Based Firm Behind Kmart ‘Pervert Glasses’ App
Australia’s privacy regulator has opened an investigation into the China-based company responsible for the app that pairs with a cut-price set of camera-equipped smart glasses sold at Kmart, a product that drew widespread criticism and the nickname “pervert glasses” after shoppers raised concerns about covert filming. The inquiry centres on how the app collects, stores…