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The EPA has proposed amending the 1970 Clean Air Act to remove the 30-day public comment window required before construction begins on facilities classified as 'minor sources' of industrial pollution. The change would allow projects, including many AI data centers, to move forward with less advance public scrutiny.
Indian farmer Paleram Chauhan was assassinated outside Delhi after a decade spent fighting a local gang that illegally mined sand from his village. His family and neighbors say the attack was ordered by the same criminal network profiting from the resource, which fuels the region's booming construction industry. The killing is one of many linked to violent, unregulated sand extraction operations across the country.
New Zealand's government has proposed legislation that would prohibit children under 16 from using social media platforms and AI companion apps. The move mirrors similar restrictions enacted or debated elsewhere, aiming to shield minors from harms tied to online engagement and AI-driven interactions.
Life360 has added Care and Connection tools that let families log and share recurring pet tasks like feeding, walking and medication, plus weekly activity roundups and 'Zoomies Alerts' for bursts of dog energy. The company also introduced a $7.99 stainless-steel Pet Tag with a scannable QR code for lost pets, and a cheaper $99 Silver Bundle pairing its Pet GPS tracker with a lower-tier subscription.
Meta introduced First Draft, an Instagram tool that automatically detects and removes silences and pauses from video clips before laying them into an editable timeline. Users select clips from their Reels Gallery, tap First Draft, then refine the auto-trimmed sequence or post it directly to their feed or Story. The feature rolls out on iOS first, with no confirmed timeline for Android.
Retailers are running early Labor Day discounts on kitchen gear, including a 50% price cut on All-Clad's 6-quart D3 Mother of All Pans, now $150, and $62 off a Cuisinart air fryer oven and grill, now $158. Both items are pulled from WIRED's tested and recommended kitchen picks ahead of the fall cooking season.
Chris Malone, who led OpenAI's data center buildout since March 2025, has left the company, according to CNBC. Malone previously worked as a distinguished engineer on infrastructure at Meta and Google before joining OpenAI to help manage its roughly $600 billion compute spending plan through 2030. OpenAI says it has reorganized its infrastructure team and maintains strong leadership despite the exit.
In testimony from an ongoing lawsuit filed by 29 states against Meta, a former company data scientist revealed that only about 0.165% to 0.2% of teens actually used Instagram's Take a Break feature when it was opt-in, despite Meta previously claiming 90% adoption. The tool, meant to nudge users to pause after extended app use, is now enabled by default for teen accounts following the criticism.
Security researchers found that attackers can embed HTML invisible to human readers—such as white-on-white text or zero-size fonts—inside emails. When an AI-powered summarizer processes the message, it reads this hidden text as legitimate content and can produce a summary containing false or malicious instructions for the recipient.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that companies plateau not because of competitors but due to self-imposed limits, chiefly the habit of chasing a comfortable 'fair share' of the market instead of defining themselves by unmet customer needs. The piece, drawn from a keynote at CIBC's Global Corporate and Investment Banking Offsite in Detroit, identifies five internal drag factors—complacency, fear of failure, intimidation by larger rivals, reliance on legacy approaches, and false confidence from busywork—as the real obstacles to becoming a great company.
Amy Phung and Richard Camilli of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution developed a navigation method that lets underwater robots map their surroundings using sonar, which works regardless of water clarity, then pairs that data with a French-developed image-matching algorithm to estimate depth in real time. This combination lets a vehicle safely approach objects even when cameras are blinded by sediment clouds stirred up during seafloor operations.
Researchers at MIT, led by Saransh Sharma with senior authors Giovanni Traverso and Anantha Chandrakasan, developed an ingestible capsule that measures body temperature to within 0.01°C. The device runs on a coin-cell battery and uses backscattering to shift most power demands to an external antenna, resulting in what they call the smallest ingestible temperature sensor yet built.