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- Exclusive: The founders of SoulCycle built a startup for relationships, then pivoted to GLP-1 support groups. Now its assets are being acquired by WeightWatchers
Peoplehood cofounder Julie Rice is joining WeightWatchers as chief experience officer.
- Northern Lights Forecast: These 18 States May See Aurora Borealis Tonight Amid Geomagnetic Storms
A recent coronal mass ejection is expected to disrupt Earth’s geomagnetic field.
- Benson Boone’s Position On The Charts Says A Lot About His Biggest Song
Benson Boone’s Fireworks & Rollerblades climbs past American Heart on the Billboard 200, thanks to the enduring power of “Beautiful Things.”
- Tax Relief For Affordable Housing: Feasible, Simple, And Efficient
The best tax abatement and exemption programs for affordable housing effectively balance feasibility with community benefit.
- FC Barcelona Announces Disciplinary Proceedings And Punishment For First Team Star
FC Barcelona announced that it has launched disciplinary proceedings against one of the first team's main stars through an official statement.
Technology
- The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Five ways that AI is learning to improve itself Last week, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta aims to achieve smarter-than-human AI. He seems to have a recipe for achieving that goal, and the…
- RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook
He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means.
- Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect
Why AI-based voice cloning is the next frontier in social-engineering attacks.
- The greenhouse gases we’re not accounting for
In the spring of 2021, climate scientists were stumped. The global economy was just emerging from the covid-19 lockdowns, but for some reason the levels of methane—a greenhouse gas emitted mainly through agriculture and fossil-fuel production—had soared in the atmosphere the previous year, rising at the fastest rate on record. Researchers around the world set…
- Tornado Cash sold crypto “privacy”; the US saw “money laundering.”
Tornado didn't want to know its customers, which included North Korean hackers.
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