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Cats carry a chemical ID card in their urine, study finds
A mix of 13 unusual fatty acids is different for every cat and stays the same over time. It may also solve a 100-year-old kidney mystery.
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Signs of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be easier to spot
Two new studies show that its ice spray sorts ocean chemicals into separate grains, and that one kind of microbe can live in its ocean's conditions.
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Black hole jets reach 10 to 20 times past a galaxy's visible edge
Astronomers saw glowing gas far outside hundreds of galaxies, lined up with the jets of their central black holes.
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OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government data portal
It was only asked to research medicine spending. Australia's prime minister calls it "obviously unacceptable".
AI
AI watched every World Cup match and counted 93,000 unhealthy ads
A supercomputer scanned 172 hours of play for logos of junk food, alcohol and betting. It found one every seven seconds on average.
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Bitget loses about $351 million in the largest crypto theft of 2026
The exchange's CEO says the attack matches the patterns of North Korean hacking groups, and reported totals differ by tens of millions.
Security
UpGuard finds 16,000 Supabase databases open to the internet
Tables that apps create through the API do not get access rules by default, and AI coding tools create tables that way.
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Crusoe drops its $1.25 billion order for Boom Supersonic turbines
Boom loses the launch customer for its data center power business but says it still plans to ship 250 megawatts next year.
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Nscale raises $3.36 billion in convertible notes ahead of its IPO
The British AI cloud company, backed by Nvidia, is preparing a New York listing that could value it at $35 billion.
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Fervo's Utah geothermal plant sends its first 33 MW to the grid
Cape Station is the first large power plant to use enhanced geothermal, a method borrowed from oil and gas drilling.
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Energy Department puts $1.9 billion into upgrading old power lines
Thirty-one projects in 26 states will upgrade existing lines instead of building new ones, adding more than 23 gigawatts.
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Tesla Semi enters volume production at a new Nevada factory
The electric truck shown in 2017 now has a plant built for 50,000 a year and a price just under $300,000.