ScienceDaily
Northwestern researchers spent 25 years studying SuperAgers - 80-year-olds with memories like 50-year-olds - and found two brain strategies: avoid Alzheimer's proteins or just ignore them entirely.
Scientists say a crucial Atlantic current is more likely to collapse than previously thought, but billionaires own the media and have better things to do than worry about civilisation-ending events.
Republicans propose giving oil companies legal immunity for climate damages, because why let a little thing like accountability get in the way of profits?
The Verge
Tech's 'software brain' sees the world as a database, but people aren't buying it - polls show AI is less popular than ICE, and no podcast ad spend can change that.
The Verge
Microsoft's Office AI graduates from passive chat partner to active agent, still insists on calling it 'vibe working.'
BBC World
Ex-employee sues MrBeast's company, alleging sexual harassment was condoned; company says it has 'receipts' and calls it a clout-chasing complaint.
Pitchfork
Azealia Banks swaps bangers for breathing exercises with a new hour-long meditation album. Namaste, haters.
Weed gets a federal downgrade from 'heroin' to 'steroids' four months after Trump demanded it, but don't expect anyone to get out of jail or open a bank account just yet.
NASA
Chiang Mai's dry season turns into a smoke-filled spectacle, thanks to agricultural fires, geography, and a tourism industry that's down 90 percent in one town.
The Verge
OpenAI lets teams build custom bots that actually do work, because apparently GPTs were just for show.
The Atlantic
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cancels mandatory flu shots, arguing disease makes troops more intimidating - and that George Washington was a coward for inoculating soldiers.
ZDNet
SIM farms: the rack of phones scammers rent to spam you, plus how not to lose $25,000 to SIM swapping.
Ars Technica
Gamers sue Nintendo, alleging the company plans to double-dip by keeping government tariff refunds after already charging customers higher prices.
ScienceDaily
Facing the post-Ozempic weight rebound? Science suggests the answer might be a quick, controlled burn of your small intestine lining.
SpaceNews
The Commerce Department wants to pause its space traffic system to explore making users pay for it, because nothing says 'public service' like a paywall for orbital safety.
Australian billionaires propose turning Fiji into a regional incinerator, a plan locals call 'waste colonialism' that would raise national emissions by 25% to solve a problem that wasn't theirs.
BBC World
A lone gunman's attack at the Teotihuacán pyramids, echoing US school shootings, raises new fears about imported violence just weeks before Mexico hosts the World Cup.
MIT Technology Review
LA burrows through tarry, methane-rich ground to open a subway extension, proving that with enough time and $4 billion, even a car city can rediscover trains.
Researchers found injecting a specific fatty acid improved vision in old mice, because apparently the solution to aging eyes is just more of the right kind of oil.
Ars Technica
Amid a naval blockade and military strikes, crypto scammers see an opportunity to trick stranded ships into paying fake 'transit fees' for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
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